Containers / VPS

These pages lump together both the use of containers, as well as cloud computing and virtual private servers (VPS).

• LXC and LXD
  • LXD getting started
  • LXC cheatsheet
  • hints and gotchas
  • External networking
  • X11 Applications in LXC
    • manual setup
    • launching gui containers with LXD
    • complete x11 inside LXC
  • LXC storage
  • GPU passthrough
    • note about lxd api extensions
• Docker
  • some of my example dockerfiles
  • usage
  • utilities
  • advice and best practices
    • ENTRYPOINT vs. CMD
    • Users and mapping
    • Docker and locales
    • Best practices
  • Docker and persistent data
    • stand-alone volume creation
    • volume creation at container creation time
    • mount a host directory inside a container
  • installing docker on ubuntu 18.04
  • installing docker on rhel7.4 and centos
  • installing docker on gentoo
  • Problems / Solutions
  • Resources
  • Todo
• VPS hosting
  • Vultr
  • DigitalOcean
  • misc for vps hosting

Exploratory containers

• clear containers (https://lwn.net/Articles/644675/)

• lightvm (http://cnp.neclab.eu/projects/lightvm/)

  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15610155
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15600596

• https://hypercontainer.io

• https://hyper.sh

• charliecloud

• singularity

• shifter