sigmonsays / cask

cask is a lxc container and image management tool

container and image management tool

status

prototype software just to prove a concept

No real production work should be done with this tool.

description

the initial goal of cask is to make it easy to manage containers and images

currently it supports building a image in a lxc against a given runtime. A runtime is thought of as a base image your application will run against.

This is slightly different than a base OS image since its main purpose is for deploying your application on a pre-defined application stack. Such examples would be a PHP application where all its dependencies have already been included in the runtime.

runtime

Any image can be used as a runtime but here is a quick way to bootstrap a runtime with lxc

lxc-create --template ubuntu --name ubuntu12  -- --release precise

quickstart

• requires lxc 1.0
• ensure you have a runtime available

install cask

go get github.com/sigmonsays/cask/cask

build your first container from this example directory

sudo cask build --caskpath examples/golang/cask

launch an image

sudo cask launch --name example-1 /srv/lxc/example.tar.gz