lxc-wizard

lxc-wizard creates LXC containers according to specified templates. Templates can provide the following pieces of functionality:

• addsshkey add an SSH key for a user
• adduser add a user
• dns set up DNS
• etc_hosts set up /etc/hosts
• extras do extra work
• main main OS installation
• network network set up
• rootpass set the root password

A Debian/Squeeze template has the following structure:

templates
├── debian
    └── squeeze
        ├── addsshkey
        ├── adduser
        ├── dns
        ├── etc_hosts
        ├── extras
        ├── main
        ├── network
        └── rootpass

lxc-wizard supports the following options during container creation:

--template TPL template (dir) that will define the container's layout

--fqdn DQDN     full qualified domain name of the target container
--hostname HOST hostname (if it can't be extracted from the fqdn)
--domain DOMAIN domain name (if it can't be extracted from the fqdn)
--dnsdomain DOMAIN domain used in resolv.conf
--search SEARCH dns search domains in resolv.conf
                (can be passed multiple times)
--ns1    NS1    first name server
--ns1    NS1    second name server
--ipaddr IPADDR ip address (if it can't be found by gethost call)
--gwaddr IPADDR gateway address

--rootpass      the root password to set
--user          user to add in the format user:pass
                (can be passed multiple times)
--key           add the key to given user, in the format
                user:/path/to/key
                (can be passed multiple times)

--postcreate    script to copy into the container and run
                after the container is created (in the chroot)

Anything passed at the end after -- will be passed along to the
post create script. For example: -- --cluster-id 1

lxc-conjure

lxc-conjure is a wrapper around lxc-wizard that makes creating complete environments via spell (definition) files quick and pretty painless.

The following dependencies must be met:

Parallel::Runner
Number::Spell
libtie-ixhash-perl libfile-slurp-perl libfile-slurp-unicode-perl libmojolicious-perl libdata-section-simple-perl

lxc-conjure uses spells to define hosts or environments that should be built.

lxc-conjure supports the following options:

--spell     Spell (file) to get containers from.
 
Actions:
--create    Create containers.
--start     Start containers.
--stop      Stop containers.
--restart   Restart containers.
--destroy   Destroy containers.
--info      Get containers' information.

Spell enhancers:

--parallel  Create containers in parallel across
            different hosts.