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+NAME
+----
+container-tools - Manage systemd-nspawn containers
+
+
+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)
+
+container-tools provides the system integration for managing containers using systemd-nspawn.
+
+
+DOWNLOAD
+--------
+ * Upstream Releases: https://files.open-infrastructure.net/software/container-tools/upstream
+ * Upstream Sources: https://sources.open-infrastructure.net/software/container-tools
+ * Debian Releases: https://files.open-infrastructure.net/software/container-tools/debian
+ * Debian Sources: https://sources.progress-linux.org/users/daniel/debian/packages/open-infrastructure-container-tools
+
+
+INSTALLATION
+------------
+
+SOURCE
+~~~~~~
+ 1. sudo apt install asciidoc git docbook-xml docbook-xsl libxml2-utils make xsltproc dbus systemd-container
+ 2. git clone https://sources.open-infrastructure.net/software/container-tools
+ 3. cd container-tools && sudo make install
+
+DEBIAN 9 (STRETCH) AND NEWER
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ * sudo apt install container-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 container-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,
+ see https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
+
+
+USAGE
+-----
+*Create a new container:*::
+ sudo container create -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-tools 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
+-------
+ * Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net>