[lxc-devel] API wishlist

[Jäkel, Guido]

Hi all,

as i'm using a farm of LXC hosts I want to add a  network wire feature  to the "API wishlist". In fact, this might be some frontend daemon, which offers remote network access to local LXC in conjunction with a proxy client counterpart, which will locally provide the API of an remote host. To be serious, this network interface will need some kind of authentication.

To allow access to multiple remote hosts, the usage of the LXC-API will need some (optional) address feature. And the userland programs either all need to support an option for this. Or there might be a clever trick to pass it's run to an special proxy program (use 'lxc-proxy remote  lxc-foo ...' instead of 'lxc-foo ...') or an environment variable evaluated by the API-lib (use 'lxc_proxy=remote lx-foo ...').

This set of features will allow on to build up an application for centralized LXC cluster status visualization and control.


Greetings

Guido