Custom LXC container recipe

[DynFi User]

Hello,

I would like to build a custom LXC container and use it as a template (and be able to use it as any already existing template (like ubuntu 22, or debian…)), we need to add couple of customized settings into this Master template.

Then we will use this template to setup customer's environment and rapidly replicate the template to create new instance.

Is there a clear guideline / explanation on how to setup this template ?


Thx.

 

[fabian]

a template is just the rootfs as tar.gz/xz/..

for our Debian-based templates we use "DAB": https://git.proxmox.com/?p=dab.git;a=summary , but PVE doesn't really care how you create the templates

 

[DynFi User]

Ok, thanks for the reply.

What about distrobuilder >> https://linuxcontainers.org/distrobuilder/introduction/
Do you advise to use it or not ?

 

[DynFi User]

The README in this dab project is… minimalist :

➜  dab git:(master) cat README
TODO

 

[fabian]

Ok, thanks for the reply.

What about distrobuilder >> https://linuxcontainers.org/distrobuilder/introduction/
Do you advise to use it or not ?

it doesn't really matter which tool you use, you'll have to test the resulting templates anyway. distrobuilder should be fine as well, modulo issues affecting certain distro/version combinations that might require fixups.