[lxc-devel] [lxc-users] Lxcfile :: For creating containers easily

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello,

If you can review the devel mailing list, you will find something like this
is working in progress.

they are building daily images of some templates (oracle, ubuntu, etc), and
working in add a new lxc-download to have an option to lxc-create.

https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/templates/lxc-download.in

Have a look at the mailing list, and check if that's what you are after.

Other advantage is the work will allow non-root users to download and start
containers.

Alvaro.


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Ranjib Dey <dey.ranjib at gmail.com> wrote:

> hello ,
> i would like to propose a simpler way to create containers(inspired by
> dockerfiles), from existing templates. Currently the only way to create a
> containers from scratch is via templates. Though its very powerful, its a
> significant adoption barrier to folks who are not familiar with all the low
> level tools (debootstrap, mounting logic etc). docker[1] provides a
> simplistic dsl for building containers, this pattern is popular among other
> tools like vagrant, bundler etc. I feel this wont be very difficult to
> implement and will significantly lower the entry barrier for building
> custom containers, and thus enabling users to share their container setup
> more easily.
>
> I am using lxc with ruby (chef actually) and currently i am using a very
> simple ruby script[2] to do dockerfile to raw lxc creation, i can write a C
> equivalent if you thinks its worth considering having an equivalent of
> Lxcfile to create containers.
>
> regards
> ranjib
>
>
> p.s. thanks a lot for all your works on lxc
>
>
> [1]http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/use/builder/
> [2]https://gist.github.com/ranjib/8482470
>
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