LXC¶
About¶
- List of all manpages
- Standard image repository
- Getting started with LXC, 2014, Flockport
Linux templates¶
A template is a script allowing to populate a container’s pseudo-filesystem for it to run a given Linux distribution.
To display a template’s options:
$ lxc-create -t <template> -h
For more information:
$ emacs /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-<template>
Useful commands¶
List existing containers and their network address (if running):
$ lxc-ls --fancy
NAME STATE AUTOSTART GROUPS IPV4 IPV6
example-centos-test RUNNING 0 - 10.0.3.176 -
example-ubuntu-test RUNNING 0 - 10.0.3.179 -
Container lifecycle¶
CentOS 7¶
Prerequisite: yum
$ lxc-create -t centos -n example-centos-test -- -R 7
$ lxc-start -n example-centos-test
$ lxc-attach -n example-centos-test
# do something with the container
$ lxc-stop -n example-centos-test
$ lxc-destroy -n example-centos-test
Debian 8¶
Prerequisite: debootstrap
$ lxc-create -t debian -n example-debian-test
$ lxc-start -n example-debian-test
$ lxc-attach -n example-debian-test
# do something with the container
$ lxc-stop -n example-debian-test
$ lxc-destroy -n example-debian-test
Ubuntu 16.04¶
Prerequisite: debootstrap
(recent version)
$ lxc-create -t ubuntu -n example-ubuntu-test -- -r xenial
$ lxc-start -n example-ubuntu-test
$ lxc-attach -n example-ubuntu-test
# do something with the container
$ lxc-stop -n example-ubuntu-test
$ lxc-destroy -n example-ubuntu-test