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  • Extending debspawn

    From Marc Haber@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 10 14:00:01 2021
    Hallo,

    debspawn is extremely handy if one just wants a container to quickly try
    stuff or to build a package in a clean environment. I especially like
    that zero infrastructure is needed: We already have systemd and that's
    all whats needed to fire up an nspawn container.

    But sometimes, one wants more than that, for example two shells in the
    same container. That's something that debspawn seems to be unable to do.

    Is there any way to fire up a pid-1-systemd isntance inside a debspawn container, so that the container could have an IP address and run its
    own sshd? Or is there any way to get a login prompt from an already
    running debspawn container?

    What magic have other people built around debspawn? Or is everybody
    using a fully-fledged docker for all non-trivial things?

    Greetings
    Marc

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  • From Marco d'Itri@21:1/5 to Marc Haber on Fri Dec 10 17:00:01 2021
    On Dec 10, Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote:

    Is there any way to fire up a pid-1-systemd isntance inside a debspawn container, so that the container could have an IP address and run its
    own sshd? Or is there any way to get a login prompt from an already
    running debspawn container?
    I am not familiar with debspawn, but looks like this should help:

    #!/bin/sh -e

    C_NAME=$1

    if [ -z "$C_NAME" ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 NAME"
    fi

    C_PID="$(machinectl show --property=Leader --value $C_NAME)"

    [ "$C_PID" ] || exit 1

    kill -0 $C_PID || exit 2

    exec nsenter \
    --mount --uts --ipc --net --pid --cgroup \
    --target $C_PID $SHELL

    --
    ciao,
    Marco

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  • From Luca Boccassi@21:1/5 to Marc Haber on Fri Dec 10 18:20:03 2021
    On Fri, 2021-12-10 at 13:53 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
    Hallo,

    debspawn is extremely handy if one just wants a container to quickly try stuff or to build a package in a clean environment. I especially like
    that zero infrastructure is needed: We already have systemd and that's
    all whats needed to fire up an nspawn container.

    But sometimes, one wants more than that, for example two shells in the
    same container. That's something that debspawn seems to be unable to do.

    Is there any way to fire up a pid-1-systemd isntance inside a debspawn container, so that the container could have an IP address and run its
    own sshd? Or is there any way to get a login prompt from an already
    running debspawn container?

    What magic have other people built around debspawn? Or is everybody
    using a fully-fledged docker for all non-trivial things?

    Greetings
    Marc

    Not familiar with debspawn, but nspawn (like other container managers)
    has the concept for "booting" a container or simply starting a shell in
    it (chroot on steroids).

    If debspawn is using the latter, to use the former is sufficient to
    pass --boot to nspawn - a cursory look into the manpage of debspawn
    seems to indicate it doesn't support passing forward parameters, but I
    might be wrong.

    Regarding networking, if you have networkd on the host and in the guest
    in booted mode, you also automagically get a private network bridged
    onto the host's with bells and whistles.

    Hope this helps.

    --
    Kind regards,
    Luca Boccassi

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