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diff --git a/share/man/compute-tools.7.rst b/share/man/compute-tools.7.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..33e6aea --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/compute-tools.7.rst @@ -0,0 +1,153 @@ +.. Open Infrastructure: compute-tools + +.. Copyright (C) 2014-2022 Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net> +.. +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0+ +.. +.. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +.. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +.. the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +.. (at your option) any later version. +.. +.. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.. GNU General Public License for more details. +.. +.. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +.. along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +============= +compute-tools +============= + +-------------------------------- +Manage systemd-nspawn containers +-------------------------------- + +:manual section: 7 +:manual group: Open Infrastructure + +Description +=========== + +[A Linux container] is an operating-system-level virtualization environment for +running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a single Linux control +host. + + -- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC) + +**compute-tools** provides the system integration for managing containers using +systemd-nspawn(1). + +Download +======== + +| Upstream Releases: +| https://get.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools/upstream + +| Upstream Sources: +| https://git.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools + +| Debian Releases: +| https://get.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools/debian + +| Debian Sources: +| https://git.progress-linux.org/users/daniel/debian/packages/open-infrastructure-compute-tools + +Installation +============ + +Source +------ + +| $ sudo apt install git make python3-docutils dbus systemd-container +| $ git clone https://git.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools +| $ cd compute-tools && sudo make install + +Debian 9 (stretch) and newer +---------------------------- + +| $ sudo apt install compute-tools + +Development +=========== + +Bug reports, feature requests, help, patches, support and everything else are +welcome on the Open Infrastructure Software Mailing List +(https://lists.open-infrastructure.net/listinfo/software). + +Please base patches against the 'next' Git branch using common sense +(https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches). + +Debian specific bugs can also be reported in the Debian Bug Tracking System +(https://bugs.debian.org). + +Known limitations +================= + +This version of compute-tools currently do not work with systemd-networkd and +depend on ifupdown. + +Using overlay, the upper directory can not be an NFS mount due to limitations in +Linux' overlay filesystem +(https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt). + +Usage +===== + +Build a new container: + sudo container build -n NAME + +Start a container: + sudo container start -n NAME + +Stop a container: + sudo container stop -n NAME + +Remove a container: + sudo container remove -n NAME + +List container on the system: + sudo container list + +Show container version: + container version + +See container(1) for a list of all container commands. + +Links +===== + +| * Linux Weekly News: Kernel / Containers +| (https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Containers) + +| * Linux Weekly News: Security / Containers +| (https://lwn.net/Security/Index/#Containers) + +| * 2016-02-24: Systemd vs. Docker +| (https://lwn.net/Articles/676831/) + +| * 2015-06-10: Systemd and containers +| (https://lwn.net/Articles/647634/) + +| * 2014-07-07: Control groups +| (https://lwn.net/Articles/604609/) + +| * 2013-11-13: Systemd-Nspawn is Chroot on Steroids [LinuxCon Europe] +| (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7LlUs5D9p4) + +| * 2013-11-03: Creating containers with systemd-nspawn +| (https://lwn.net/Articles/572957/) + +| * 2013-02-06: Systemd lightweight containers +| (https://lwn.net/Articles/536033/) + +| * 2013-01-04: Namespaces in operation +| (https://lwn.net/Articles/531114/) + +Authors +======= + +compute-tools were written by Daniel Baumann +<daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net> and others. |