Background
Still on the developer experience tour of Bluefin-DX, I wanted to give it a try to LXC. Heard about it but never used it. More on the VirtualBox, VMWare, Docker crowd.
But since I was doing research on the different ways to install Linux applications in Bluefin-DX, I decided it was the turn of LXC.
Objective
This is about the installation of a simple terminal application nmap in a LXC container, and running it from the Bluefin-DX host.
Experiment
Let’s create a privileged container (with sudo) from the Bluefin-DX host:
sudo lxc-create -t download -n ubuntu-c1 -- -d ubuntu -r jammy -a amd64
sudo lxc-ls --fancy
Start the coontainer:
sudo lxc-start ubuntu-c1
Attach the container to a console:
sudo lxc-attach ubuntu-c1
Then, inside the Ubuntu container we install nmap:
sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install nmap -y
exit # back to the host
We stop the LXC container:
# to run commands from the host we need it idle
sudo lxc-stop ubuntu-c1
Results
Now, from the Bluefin-DX host, we run:
sudo lxc-execute ubuntu-c1 -- nmap --version
We have demonstrated that terminal binaries can be installed in LXC container and be executed from the host.
Next
Next challenge: run GUIs from LXC from Bluefin-DX.
