These scripts are useful to manage your own server, with several Linux containers.
- Either clone this code repository:
cd ~; git clone https://github.com/tpokorra/lxc-scripts.git scripts
- Or install a package from LBS: https://lbs.solidcharity.com/package/tpokorra/lbs/lxc-scripts
- There is a lxc-scripts package for CentOS7, and Ubuntu 20.04, with instructions how to install the package
- To make things easier, I usually create a symbolic link:
cd ~; ln -s /usr/share/lxc-scripts scripts
After installing the package, run these scripts for initializing the firewall and some fixes for the LXC templates:
/usr/share/lxc-scripts/initLXC.sh
/usr/share/lxc-scripts/initIPTables.sh
- Initialise the host IPTables so that they will be survive a reboot:
~/scripts/initIPTables.sh
- Small fixes to the LXC system for CentOS7 containers, and create ssh keys:
~/scripts/initLXC.sh
- Create a container (with networking etc):
~/scripts/initCentOS.sh $name $id
- Call the script without parameters to see additional parameters, eg to specify the version of the OS etc:
~/scripts/initCentOS.sh
- There are scripts for creating CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu containers
- Containers are created in
/var/lib/lxc/$name
, see the fileconfig
and the directoryrootfs
- Start a container:
lxc-start --name $name
- Start a container without console:
lxc-start -d --name $name
- Stop a container:
lxc-stop -n $name
- Destroy a container:
lxc-destroy --name $name
- List all containers, with running state and IP address:
lxc-ls -f
- alternatively, there is this script:
~/scripts/listcontainers.sh
which works even on CentOS where python3 is not (yet) available - this also shows the OS of the container
- ~/scripts/listcontainers.sh running: shows only running containers
- ~/scripts/listcontainers.sh stopped: shows only stopped containers
- Stop all containers:
~/scripts/stopall.sh
Snapshots:
- are stored in
/var/lib/lxcsnaps/
- first stop the container:
lxc-stop -n $name
- then create the snapshot:
lxc-snapshot -n $name
- create with comment:
echo "mycomment" > /tmp/comment && lxc-snapshot -n $name -c /tmp/comment && rm -f /tmp/comment
- list all snapshots:
lxc-snapshot -LC -n $name
- restore a snapshot:
lxc-snapshot -n $name -r snap@
- create a new container from snapshot:
lxc-snapshot -n $name -r snap@ new$name
- delete a snapshot:
lxc-snapshot -n $name -d snap@