A short introduction to LXC

A short introduction to LXC, an user space implementation of container on mainline linux, and the ecosystem around it

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1. A short introduction to LXC Ranjib Dey System Administrator, Bay Area Large-Scale Production Engineering – 02/20/2014
2. Containers - Light weight virtualization - software based virtualization - userspace entity in mainline linux kernel (lxc) - built using kernel's containment facility
3. Kernel facilities - namespaces - cgroups - capabilities
4. Parts of a LXC container - rootfs - config - fstab - liblxc (dependency)
5. Managing containers - create, destroy - start, stop (shutdown/kill, reboot) - freeze, unfreeze
6. Customizing containers - template specific customizations - general configurations - cgroup related configurations - hooks - snapshots, overlayfs backed workflows - lxc-download pulls stock rootfs (CI backed)
7. LXC packaging - liblxc is all you need to run - lxc-template offers linux distros - lxc all the binaries, stock configs
8. Extending lxc - use template & download to build them - use config api to add run time configuration - build additional tools using any of the bindings - bindings: python, lua, ruby, Go.
9. Extending lxc - simple example: #!/usr/bin/python3 import lxc container = lxc.Container("my_container") container.create("ubuntu", {"release": "precise"}) container.start() print(container.get_ips(timeout=10)) container.shutdown(timeout=10) container.destroy()
10. Extending lxc - more complex example: #!/usr/bin/ruby require 'chef/lxc' lxc "web" do template "ubuntu" recipe do package "apache2" service "apache2" do action [:start, :enable] end end action [:create, :start] end
11. Whats next? - lxc 1.0 released today - better user namespace support - tools for extensible storage - union file system(aufs, overlayfs) - s3, gfs, swift/glance etc - CRIU & pr.haul - Docker, Maestro, Deis, Hroot etc
12. Thank You @RanjibDey