LXD
LXD is a next generation system container manager. It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead.
Install and setup
Install package lxd.
# apt-get install lxd
Add uid and gid map into files /etc/subuid и /etc/subgid:
root:100000:65536 lxd:100000:65536
Start and enable lxd service.
# systemctl enable --now lxd
Run initial setup.
# lxd init
Add user to lxd group.
# usermod username --append --groups lxd
Launch
Available ALT images on images.linuxcontainers.org
$ lxc image list images:alt
Approximate output:
| alt/Sisyphus (3 more) | a6bb3268c7a1 | yes | Alt Sisyphus amd64 (20190710_01:17) | x86_64 | 227.27MB | "Jul 10 | 2019 at 12:00am (UTC)" |
| alt/Sisyphus/arm64 (1 more) | 4d860461a016 | yes | Alt Sisyphus arm64 (20190710_01:17) | aarch64 | 177.23MB | "Jul 10 | 2019 at 12:00am (UTC)" |
| alt/Sisyphus/i386 (1 more) | 62d0664ce372 | yes | Alt Sisyphus i386 (20190710_01:17) | i686 | 183.37MB | "Jul 10 | 2019 at 12:00am (UTC)" |
| alt/Sisyphus/ppc64el (1 more) | 143672c92ab2 | yes | Alt Sisyphus ppc64el (20190710_01:17) | ppc64le | 183.72MB | "Jul 10 | 2019 at 12:00am (UTC)" |
| alt/p8 (3 more) | b6674565b63b | yes | Alt p8 amd64 (20190710_01:17) | x86_64 | 231.58MB | "Jul 10 | 2019 at 12:00am (UTC)" |
| alt/p8/i386 (1 more) | 864957bdb260 | yes | Alt p8 i386 (20190710_01:17) | i686 | 182.66MB | "Jul 10 | 2019 at 12:00am (UTC)" |
| alt/p9 (3 more) | 262a6ff9259c | yes | Alt p9 amd64 (20190710_01:17) | x86_64 | 226.51MB | "Jul 10 | 2019 at 12:00am (UTC)" |
| alt/p9/arm64 (1 more) | 7643261d1273 | yes | Alt p9 arm64 (20190710_01:17) | aarch64 | 176.94MB | "Jul 10 | 2019 at 12:00am (UTC)" |
| alt/p9/i386 (1 more) | 4faf887493d7 | yes | Alt p9 i386 (20190710_01:17) | i686 | 183.38MB | "Jul 10 | 2019 at 12:00am (UTC)" |
| alt/p9/ppc64el (1 more) | df49ca8bf30a | yes | Alt p9 ppc64el (20190710_01:17) | ppc64le | 182.81MB | "Jul 10 | 2019 at 12:00am (UTC)" |
Images available for the following arches:
- amd64
- arm64
- i386
- ppc64el
Launch container.
$ lxc launch images:alt/p9 first
Check it created.
$ lxc ls
Get into it.
$ lxc exec first bash
Stop it.
$ lxc stop first
And delete.
$ lxc rm first
Build of images
LXD images buildings via distrobuilder.
# apt-get install distrobuilder # distrobuilder build-lxd /usr/share/distrobuilder/examples/alt
Import image to lxd.
$ lxc image import lxd.tar.xz rootfs.squashfs --alias myimage