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Genoci and Lpack

Introduction I’ve been working on a pair of tools for manipulating OCI images: genoci, for GENerating OCI images, builds images according to a recipe in yaml format. lpack, the layer unpacker, unpacks an OCI image’s layers onto either btrfs subvolumes … Continue reading

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CNI for LXC

It’s now possible to use CNI (container networking interface) with lxc. Here is an example. This requires some recent upstream patches, so for simplicity let’s use the lxc packages for zesty in ppa:serge-hallyn/atom. Setup a zesty host with that ppa, … Continue reading

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LXD 0.3

LXD 0.3 has been released. This version provides huge usability improvements over past versions. Getting started Here’s an example of quickly getting started on a fresh Ubuntu 15.04 VM: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-lxc/lxd-daily sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lxd sudo … Continue reading

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Experimenting with user namespaces

User namespaces are a really neat feature, but there are some subtleties involved which can make them perplexing to first play with. Here I’m going to show a few things you can do with them, with an eye to explaining … Continue reading

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Easier creation of libvirt lxc containers

LXC, from lxc.sf.net, is a very advanced and flexible toolset and library for managing linux containers. It is very actively maintained, provides for both system and application containers, and in particular has really nice ‘templates’ for creating fedora, lxc, or … Continue reading

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