LXC on Arch Linux and elsewhere - 2025-01-05
The Linux kernel containers (LXC) is a nice and efficient mean to run containers. Far lighter and more efficient than Docker ones, it is well integrated in GNU/Linux system environment.
LinuxContainers developers community followed, Aleksa Sarai Incus interface, a fork of Canonical's LXD. It have both a cli and a web interface, like the very powerful Proxmox, maybe not reached the same level (in january 2025), but can be installed on your own linux, instead to having to work on a proxmox specific server. Both have their pros and cons.
I will present here all installation process step by step on Arch Linux to make LXC container working:
- In unprivileged mode (for security)
- With both busybox, the very light Alpine Linux as container (8 MB rootfs, thanks to light Musl libc and Busybox), Arch Linux or Debian.
- Crossarchitecture compatible containers (ARM (32/64-bit), RISC-V (32/64/128-bit), and x86 (32/64-bit), should work the same way with Loongson or PowerPC, as soon tempaltes are available.
Disclamair:
- The official Linux container documentation, Getting Started that could be really generic and miss some point in my case.
- The official Arch Wiki give lot of possibilities, that could lost the user, I have to navigate and search myself to found a working solution that fit my needs and willing.
- This Stan's blog blog tutorial helped me resolved some not well documented parts about the bridge.
The Linux kernel containers (LXC) is a nice and efficient mean to run containers. Far lighter and more efficient than Docker ones, it is well integrated in GNU/Linux system environment.
LinuxContainers developers community followed, Aleksa Sarai Incus interface, a fork of Canonical's LXD. It have both a cli and a web interface, like the very powerful Proxmox, maybe not reached the same level (in january 2025), but can be installed on your own linux, instead to having to work on a proxmox specific server. Both have their pros and cons.
I will present here all installation process step by step on Arch Linux to make LXC container working:
- In unprivileged mode (for security)
- With both busybox, the very light Alpine Linux as container (8 MB rootfs, thanks to light Musl libc and Busybox), Arch Linux or Debian.
- Crossarchitecture compatible containers (ARM (32/64-bit), RISC-V (32/64/128-bit), and x86 (32/64-bit), should work the same way with Loongson or PowerPC, as soon tempaltes are available.
Disclamair:
- The official Linux container documentation, Getting Started that could be really generic and miss some point in my case.
- The official Arch Wiki give lot of possibilities, that could lost the user, I have to navigate and search myself to found a working solution that fit my needs and willing.
- This Stan's blog blog tutorial helped me resolved some not well documented parts about the bridge.