[Lxc-users] Creating multiple containers simultaneously

[Roberto Aloi]

Derek, I'm giving a try to your script. It seems exactly what I need.

Regards,

Roberto

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Derek Simkowiak <derek at simkowiak.net> wrote:
> What I would love to do is to setup a "base" container which contains the OS and the required
> packages (the common part) and to create several - customizable - instances of this container.
>
>
>     Roberto,
>     My LXC creation script "lxc-ubuntu-x" has this feature.  You can
> create any number of "templates", where each template features both a
> unique tarball (with all packages, etc. already installed) and also a
> customized set of configuration commands (so you can run your own setup
> programs and/or shell commands).
>
>     It caches everything in a tarball so that deployment of a brand new
> container takes about ~4 seconds.  (This is because untarring a tarball
> is much faster than copying individual files, or running debootstrap).
> It has also allows you to create complete deployments without human
> interaction, and it takes care of generating unique MAC addresses, SSH
> server certs, SSL certs (for LAMP), and a default new user with a
> pre-installed .ssh/authorized_keys file.
>
>     The code is on github.  Homepage is at:
>
> http://derek.simkowiak.net/lxc-ubuntu-x/
>
>
> Thanks,
> Derek Simkowiak
>
> On 11/28/2011 09:40 AM, Roberto Aloi wrote:
>> containers after each job submission. What I would love to do is to
>> setup a "base" container which contains the OS and the required
>> packages (the common part) and to create several - customizable -
>> instances of this container. When I say "customizable" I mean that I
>> should be able to specify a port number which a server running inside
>> one of the containers should listen to and this number should be
>> different per each container. Would this be feasible via LXC? Any
>> suggestion on how to achieve this?
>
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