LXC::Extra

Helper methods for ruby lxc binding

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'lxc-extra', github: 'ranjib/lxc-extra'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

Core LXC ruby bindings exposes liblxc api. LXC::Extra provides few additional methods. For example, the attach method from core lxc allows executing arbitrary ruby code inside a container. Since the attach method does so via spawning a child process inside the container, getting any data back from the attach block requires IPC. LXC::Extra provides execute method that wraps the attach method and does the IPC magic for you, using IO.pipe.

require 'lxc/extra'
ct = LXC::Container.new('test')
data = ct.execute do
        # run some code 
       end

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request