LXD

LXD is a container "hypervisor". This formulas provides several states to help manage it and its containers.

This formula will allow you to:

• Initialize LXD with storage, authentication and network settings.
• Create some default settings for containers (profiles).
• Pull an image from various sources.
• Create a container with an image.
• Start/Stop/Restart/Freeze/Unfreeze/Migrate a container.
• And finaly undo all of the above.

Before we forget it, LXD and this formula allows you to migrate unprivliged containers from one host to another!

TODOS

• Add suppport for file pull/push (with salt:// support).
• Add support for container_exec.

Requirements

• There are currently only LXD packages for Ubuntu GNU/Linux so for the daemon you need Ubuntu.
• This has been tested with Saltstack 2016.3.1, we don't know if it works with other versions.
• PyLXD from pcdummy until PR 169 gets merged.

Installation

Clone and symlink

• Put/symlink the contents of _modules into salt/base/_modules/.
• Put/symlink the contents of _states into salt/base/_states/.
• Put/symlink the directory lxd into salt/base/

Per git remote

gitfs_remotes:
  - https://github.com/pcdummy/saltstack-lxd-formula.git

Available states

• lxd.init
• lxd.lxd
  • Minimal examples
  • Config examples
• lxd.client
• lxd.python
• lxd.remotes
  • Overwrite local:
  • A named remote
  • A remote we try to authenticate to
• lxd.profiles
  • A local profile that enables autostart
  • The same profile on the "named" remote "srv01"
  • A local profile that adds a interface
  • A local profile that adds a shared mount point
  • A limited container profile
  • MongoDB special case
  • To remove a profile
• lxd.images
  • To create an image from file on host 'local'
  • To create an image from the provided "images" remote
  • To create an image from "simplestreams"
  • To create an image from an URL
• lxd.containers
  • To create a container and start it
  • Same with the profiles "default" and "autostart"
  • Later you might want migrate "ubuntu-xenial" to "srv01"
  • And finaly send it to /dev/null

lxd.init

Does everthing below.

lxd.lxd

Installs lxd manages its settings.

Minimal examples

To not listen on the network and use the default storage engine

lxd:
  lxd:
    run_init: True

  python:
    # Currently pylxd version 2 is required for the lxd module to work.
    use_pip: True

To listen on the network:

lxd:
  lxd:
    run_init: True

    init:
      trust_password: "PaSsW0rD"
      network_address: "[::]"
      network_port: "8443"


  python:
    # Currently pylxd version 2 is required for the lxd module to work.
    use_pip: True

Config examples

lxd:
  lxd:
    run_init: True

    init:
      trust_password: "PaSsW0rD"
      network_address: "[::]"
      network_port: "8443"


    # Lets say you configured the password wrong on init or want to change it:
    config:
      password:
        key: core.trust_password
        value: "VerySecure!337"
        force_password: True    # Currently this will be executed every time
                                # you execute this state.

    # Now lets say somewhere else you want to change the ip LXD is listening one
      network:
        key: core.https_address
        value: "[fd57:1:see:bad:c0de::14]:8443"


  python:
    # Currently pylxd version 2 is required for the lxd module to work.
    use_pip: True

lxd.client

Installs the lxd client - its a simple package installer for lxd-client (on Debian at least).

lxd.python

Installs pylxd, this requires the pip-formula if you enable "use_pip".

lxd.remotes

Manages pylxd server connections, this is usefull when you want to create profiles/images/containers on remote LXD instances.

Attention!

Migrations and image copies don't work with provided "local" endpoint, overwrite it if you want to migrate from/to local.

Overwrite local:

Migrations and image copies don't work with provided "local" endpoint, overwrite it.

lxd:
  remotes:
    local:
      type: lxd
      remote_addr" : "https://srv02:8443"
      cert" : "/root/.config/lxc/client.crt"
      key" : "/root/.config/lxc/client.key"
      verify_cert" : False
      password" : "PaSsW0rD"

A named remote

This is just here for other states to get its values.

lxd:
  remotes:
    srv01:
      type: lxd
      remote_addr" : "https://srv01:8443"
      cert" : "/root/.config/lxc/client.crt"
      key" : "/root/.config/lxc/client.key"
      verify_cert" : False

A remote we try to authenticate to

lxd:
  remotes:
    srv02:
      type: lxd
      remote_addr" : "https://srv02:8443"
      cert" : "/root/.config/lxc/client.crt"
      key" : "/root/.config/lxc/client.key"
      verify_cert" : False
      password" : "PaSsW0rD"

lxd.profiles

Manages LXD profiles, profiles are something like defaults for a container, you can add multible profiles to a single container.

Its general a good idea to look how profiles look on the wire:

Also:

salt-call lxd.profile_list --out=json

salt-call lxd.container_list --out=json

gives nice informations about profile config keys and devices.

A local profile that enables autostart

lxd:
  profiles:
    local:    # local is special it means local unix socket, not authentication needed.
      autostart:
        config:
          # Enable autostart
          boot.autostart: 1
          # Delay between containers in seconds.
          boot.autostart.delay: 2
          # The lesser the later it gets started on autostart.
          boot.autostart.priority: 1

The same profile on the "named" remote "srv01"

lxd:
  profiles:
    srv01:    # Notice the change from "local" to "srv01"
      autostart:
        config:
          # Enable autostart
          boot.autostart: 1
          # Delay between containers in seconds.
          boot.autostart.delay: 2
          # The lesser the later it gets started on autostart.
          boot.autostart.priority: 1

A local profile that adds a interface

lxd:
  profiles:
    local:
      add_eth1:
        devices:
          eth1:
            type: "nic"
            nictype": "bridged"
            parent": "br1"

A local profile that adds a shared mount point

lxd:
  profiles:
    local:
      shared_mount:
        devices:
          shared_mount:
            type: "disk"
            # Source on the host
            source: "/home/shared"
            # Path in the container
            path: "/home/shared"

A limited container profile

See stgraber's blog

lxd:
  profiles:
    local:
      small:
        config:
          limits.cpu: 1
          limits.memory: 512MB
          limits.read: 20Iops
          limits.write: 10Iops

MongoDB special case

If you use the MongoDB ext_pillar you will notice that it doesn't like dots in field names, this is why we added a special case for that:

lxd:
  profiles:
    local:
      autostart:
        config:
          # Notice the key/value style here
          - key: boot.autostart
            value: 1
          - key: boot.autostart.delay
            value: 2
          - key: boot.autostart.priority
            value: 1

To remove a profile

lxd:
  profiles:
    local:
      autostart:
        absent: True

lxd.images

Manages LXD images.

To create an image from file on host 'local'

lxd:
  images:
    local:
      busybox:
        name: busybox     # Its alias
        source:
          type: file
          filename: salt://lxd/files/busybox.tar.xz
          saltenv: base

To create an image from the provided "images" remote

On images.linuxcontainers.org you see a list of images available.

And with lxc image list images: you get a list of aliases.

lxd:
  images:
    local:
      xenial_amd64:
        name: xenial/amd64    # Its alias
        source:
          name: ubuntu/xenial/amd64
          remote: images_linuxcontainers_org    # See map.jinja for it
        aliases: ['x', 'xa64']  # More aliases
        public: False
        auto_update: True

To create an image from "simplestreams"

We also implemented a way to copy images from simplestreams, to do so:

lxd:
  images:
    local:
      trusty_amd64:
        source:
          name: trusty/amd64
          remote: ubuntu    # See map.jinja for it
        aliases: ['t', 'ta64']  # More aliases
        public: False
        auto_update: True

Those simplestreams images have cloud-init integrated! Use

$ lxc image alias list ubuntu:

to get a list of available aliases.

To create an image from an URL

lxd:
  images:
    local:
      trusty_amd64:
        source:
          type: url
          url: https://dl.stgraber.org/lxd
        aliases: ['busbox-amd64']  # More aliases
        public: False
        auto_update: True

lxd.containers

Manages LXD containers, this includes lxd.images, lxd.profiles and lxd.remotes.

To create a container and start it

From the image alias "xenial/amd64"

lxd:
  containers:
    local:
      ubuntu-xenial:
        running: True
        source: xenial/amd64

Same with the profiles "default" and "autostart"

We also add a higher start priority and a device eth1

lxd:
  containers:
    local:
      ubuntu-xenial2:
        running: True
        source: xenial/amd64
        profiles:
          - default
          - autostart
        config:
          boot.autostart.priority: 1000
        devices:
          eth1:
            type: "nic"
            nictype": "bridged"
            parent": "br1"
        opts:
          require:
            - lxd_profile: lxd_profile_local_autostart

Later you might want migrate "ubuntu-xenial" to "srv01"

lxd:
  containers:
    srv01:
      ubuntu-xenial:
        migrated: True
        stop_and_start: True    # No live-migration but start/stop.
        source: local       # Note that we've overwritten "local",
                            # else this wont work!

And finaly send it to /dev/null

lxd:
  containers:
    srv01:
      ubuntu-xenial:
        absent: True
        stop: True

LXD execution Module

Please see execution_module doc for it, or better directly the well documented sourcecode of the LXD Module.

Authors

René Jochum <rene@jochums.at>

License

Apache Version 2.0