Puppet LXC container management class

Abstract

This class provides LXC container management functionality for Puppet. Features

• Creating and destroying containers on LVM volumes
• Starting and stopping containers
• Configuring container autostart

Warning! This has only been tested on Ubuntu 12.04. Use at your own risk!

Usage

Ensuring a container is created with a given template:

lxc::container {
    test01:
        ensure     => running,
        template   => "ubuntu",
        vgname     => "lxc",
        host       => "host01",
        autostart  => true,
        lvsize     => 5,
        filesystem => "ext4";
}

Ensuring a container does not exist on the given host:

lxc::container {
    test01:
        ensure     => absent,
        host       => "host01";
}

Ensuring a container does not exist on any host:

lxc::container {
    test01:
        ensure     => absent;
}

Parameters:

• ensure: can be 'absent', 'stopped' or 'running'. Defaults to 'running'.
• template: the name of your template name.
• vgname: the volume group to create your container in.
• host: the host to create/destroy your container on. Migration is not (yet?) supported. Defaults to all hosts.
• autostart: Automatically start container at boot time. Defaults to true.
• lvsize: The logical volume size in GB. Resizing is not supported (yet?). Defaults to 5.
• filesystem: The filesystem to use for the container. Defaults to 'ext4'

Copyright and License

Copyright (C) 2012 Janos Pasztor [email protected]

You are free to use this module under the terms of the BSD license.