🦀 rust-lxc

rust-lxc is a Rust bindings for LXC.

Why Rust Bindings for liblxc?

LXC is the well-known and heavily tested low-level Linux container runtime. It is in active development since 2008 and has proven itself in critical production environments world-wide. Some of its core contributors are the same people that helped to implement various well-known containerization features inside the Linux kernel. This package implements Rust bindings for the LXC C API (liblxc).

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Features

With rust-lxc, you can perform the following operations:

• Create a container (create)
• Start a container (start)
• Stop a container (stop)
• Delete a container (delete)
• List all containers (ls)
• Shutdown a container (shutdown)

Add to your Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
rust-lxc = { git = "https://github.com/ta2ozg/rust-lxc" }

Dependencies

• Rust 2024 Edition
• clap (for the CLI)
• anyhow (for error handling)
• liblxc (C-based library for LXC containers)

Testing

cargo test

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1. Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/ta2ozg/rust-lxc.git
cd rust-lxc

2. Install dependencies

To install the dependencies, run:

cargo build

3. Use the commands

After building the project, you can manage containers with the following commands:

• Create a container:

cargo run -- create --name mycontainer --template download

• Start a container:

cargo run -- start --name mycontainer

• Stop a container:

cargo run -- stop --name mycontainer

• Delete a container:

cargo run -- delete --name mycontainer

• List containers:

cargo run -- ls

• Shutdown a container:

cargo run -- shutdown --name mycontainer

Understanding the Code

File Structure

• lib.rs: This file contains the core logic for interacting with liblxc. FFI is used to interface with the liblxc library and container operations are defined here.
• cli.rs: This file defines the CLI using clap. Commands and arguments are parsed here.
• lxc.rs: All operations related to LXC containers are defined in this file. Creating, starting, stopping, and deleting containers happen here.
• main.rs: This is the entry point of the program. It processes the CLI commands and calls the appropriate functions.

Commands

The following commands are available in this project:

• create: Creates a new LXC container.
• delete: Deletes an existing container.
• start: Starts a container.
• stop: Stops a container.
• ls: Lists all available containers.
• shutdown: Shuts down a container.

Contributing

PRs, ideas and bug reports are welcome.
Want to extend the library or implement more endpoints? Let’s build it together!

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📄 License

Licensed under the MIT License.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.