You are creating containers and you want them to be somewhat preconfigured. For example, you want them to run automatically apt update as soon as they are launched. Or, get some packages pre-installed, or run a few commands. Here is how to perform this early initialization with cloud-init through LXD to container images that support …
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Dec 29 2017
Installing retdec on Ubuntu
retdec (RETargetable DECompiler) is a decompiler, and it is the one that was released recently as open-source software by Avast Software. retdec can take an executable and work back into recreating the initial source code (with limitations). An example with retdec Let’s see first an example. Here is the initial source code, that was compiled …
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Dec 14 2017
multipass, management of virtual machines running Ubuntu
If you want to run a machine container, you would use LXD. But if you want to run a virtual machine, you would use multipass. multipass is so new, that is still in beta. The name is not known yet to Google, and you get many weird results when you search for it. Both containers …
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Dec 05 2017
How to migrate LXD from DEB/PPA package to Snap package
You are using LXD from a Linux distribution package and you would like to migrate your existing installation to the Snap LXD package. Let’s do the migration together! This post is not about live container migration in LXD. Live container migration is about moving a running container from one LXD server to another. If you …
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Dec 02 2017
How to set the timezone in LXD containers
See https://blog.simos.info/trying-out-lxd-containers-on-our-ubuntu/ on how to set up and test LXD on Ubuntu (or another Linux distribution). In this post we see how to set up the timezone in a newly created container. The problem The default timezone for a newly created container is Etc/UTC, which is what we used to call Greenwich Mean Time. Let’s …
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Nov 15 2017
New Firefox stats, how will they change?
Firefox 57 has been released and it has quite a few features that make it a very compelling browser to use. Most importantly, Firefox 57 has a new browser engine that makes the best use of a multi-core/multi-threaded CPU. Therefore, let’s write down the browser market share stats of today, and compare again in November …
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Nov 07 2017
How to use Sysdig and Falco with LXD containers
Sysdig (.org) is an open-source container troubleshooting tool and it works by capturing system calls and events directly from the Linux kernel. When you install Sysdig, it adds a new kernel module that it uses to collect all those system calls and events. That is, compared to other tools like strace, lsof and htop, it …
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Nov 06 2017
How to install a Node.js app in a LXD container
Update #1: Added working screenshot and some instructions. Update #2: Added instructions on how to get the app to autostart through systemd. Installing a Node.js app on your desktop Linux computer is a messy affair, since you need to add a new repository and install lots of additional packages. The alternative to messing up your …
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