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+=============
+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
+=====
+
+| * 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.