Lxc-dev

Install lxc from source to enable lxc support with ansible for the popular linux distributions.

Requirements

If you enable lxc_dev_enable_bridge you will need iptables.

If you enable lxc_dev_enable_dnsmasq variable you will need dnsmasq.

If you enable lxc_dev_enable_bridge or lxc_dev_enable_dnsmasq variable you will need resolvconf.

Role Variables

Should work out of the box but you can specify the following values:

# lxc git repo to clone
lxc_dev_git_repository: https://github.com/lxc/lxc.git

# source dir where to clone and build
lxc_dev_src_path: /usr/local/src

# user for the clone and build part
lxc_dev_user: root

# bridge
lxc_dev_enable_bridge: yes
lxc_dev_addr: 10.0.3.1
lxc_dev_network: 10.0.3.0/24
lxc_dev_dhcp_range: 10.0.3.2,10.0.3.254

# dnsmasq
lxc_dev_enable_dnsmasq: yes
lxc_dev_tld: lxc

# python
lxc_dev_pip_executable: pip2

# system package requirements
lxc_dev_system_packages:
  - name: automake
  - name: debootstrap
  - name: git
  - name: libcap-dev
  - name: pkg-config
  - name: python-dev
  - name: python-pip

Dependencies

• GROG.package

Example Playbook

You can use this role as follow:

- hosts: local
  roles:
     - { role: toopy.lxc-dev }

License

MIT

Author Information

florent@toopy.org