appcontainers - a high level LXC utility

This builds, runs, and monitors App Containers and App Container images. App Containers are used to sandbox arbitrary applications into an LXC.

Limitations

• Only one command can be run at one time (However, the command can still spawn multiple processes)
• Once a command has terminated the container is terminated

Host Requirements

• Ubuntu 12.04
• ZeroMQ

LXC Requirements

The LXC's are required to have appcontainers-tools installed. This provides a tool for stdout monitoring of commands that are run in the container. Eventually it will also allow for input and output for commands run inside the container.

Possible use examples

Create a new app container and load code into container's home directory:

import appcontainers

# Use defaults for the service
app_container_service = appcontainers.setup_service()

# Provision the new container
# After provisioning the container will have:
#   - A static IP address
new_container = app_container_service.provision()

# Load data into the new container's home directory
new_container.load_archive('path_to_archive.tar.gz')

# Run a command in the container
new_container.run('command')