[systemd-devel] How to deploy systemd-nspawn containers and use for deployment

[Nathan Williams]

Fwiw, if you're using Chef, the impending release of v3 of the systemd
cookbook has a machine_image and a machine resource, which use importd and
nspawn under the hood.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 3:45 PM Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, 13.10.16 01:09, Brian Kroth (bpkroth at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Seems really dependent upon the container layout as to what's the most
> > appropriate way of doing that. For instance, if the underlying fs of the
> > source container is something like btrfs or zfs you could imagine doing a
> > send/recv of a golden snapshot. Possibly also for an lvm volume/snapshot.
> > For others rsync might be best. For others maybe it's just a deployment
> > script or tar or git repo.
>
> Yeah, to make this clear: I doubt we should really be in the
> deployment business too much. That's for other people to solve, for
> example rkt.
>
> However, I do think the most basic bits should probably be available,
> simply to get developers off the ground for the most basic testing. I
> figure that means "machinectl migrate" (as suggested in the other
> mail) is really as good as it might get, and anything fancier should
> really be left to other projects.
>
> Lennart
>
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