ruby-lxc/README.md
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# Ruby-LXC
## Introduction
Ruby-LXC is a Ruby binding for liblxc. It allows the creation and management
of Linux Containers from Ruby scripts.
## Build and installation
Ruby-LXC is currently under ongoing development following the code in
[lxc's master branch](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/tree/master). Once LXC
officially hits version 1.0.0, we will start providing and maintaing stable
releases.
Assuming a current installation of LXC is available, to install Ruby-LXC
simply run the commands below
```sh
bundle install
bundle exec rake compile
gem install pkg/ruby-lxc-1.0.0.gem
```
or just add this to your ```Gemfile```
```ruby
gem "ruby-lxc", github: "lxc/ruby-lxc"
```
## Usage
- Container lifecycle management (create, start, stop and destroy containers)
```ruby
c = LXC::Container.new('foo')
c.create('ubuntu') # create a container named foo with ubuntu template
c.start
# attach to a running container
c.attach do
LXC.run_command('ifconfig eth0')
end
c.stop
c.destroy
```
- Container inspection
```ruby
c.name
c.config_path
c.config_item('lxc.cap.drop')
c.cgroup_item('memory.limit_in_bytes')
c.init_pid
c.interfaces
c.ip_addresses
c.state
```
- Additional state changing operations (freezing, unfreezing and cloning
containers)
```ruby
c.freeze
c.unfreeze
c.reboot
c.shutdown
```
- Clone a container
```ruby
# clone foo into bar. Parent container has to be frozen or stopped.
clone = c.clone('bar')
```
- Wait for a state change
```ruby
# wait until container goes to STOPPED state, else timeout after 10 seconds
c.wait(:stopped, 10)
```
Check the provided rdoc documentation for a full list of methods. You can
generate it running
```sh
rake rdoc
```