[lxc-devel] meeting on lxc with user namespaces?

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Fri Jan 18 08:05:05 UTC 2013


Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at canonical.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Now that the core user namespace support is in both the 3.8 kernel
> and in the lxc staging branch, I thought it might be good to have
> a meeting to first make sure everyone understands what it is and
> what it can do, and second to discuss a path for what we want userns
> support in lxc to look like.
>
> Would everyone (who is interested) be up for a meeting sometime in
> two weeks?  We could find a phone # if people prefer, but I'm happy
> to make this a simple irc meeting.  An agenda might look like:
>
> 1. Introduction
>    a. userns kernel support (Serge or Eric) (10 mins)
>    b. userns lxc demo on ec2 (Serge) (10 mins)
>    c. expected general userns helpers (Serge) (5 mins)
>    d. discuss lxc support (rest of the time)
>       Possible topics:
>       . simple system containers
>       . best way to specify mapping at creation
>       . unprivileged users
>       . how to convert (chown) the rootfs
>       . where to store the containers
>       . naming issues (multiple unprivileged users)
>       . application containers (without root)
>
> I live a pretty (happily) meeting-free life, so I'm pretty flexible,
> but just to get a date+time out there how about Thursday, Jan 31,
> at 17:00 UTC (11am US central time)?  That should work well for both
> east and west coast of the US, and not be too bad for Europe.  I will
> set up an amazon ec2 instance on which to demo a userns container.

I don't see why I can't be there.

Eric




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