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February 18, 2015 11:02
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A shell script to quickly clone an existing LXC Container (e.g. a plain CentOS6 installation) and to update the local DNS to make it accessible.
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#!/bin/bash | |
HOSTSFILE="/etc/hosts" | |
if test -z "$1" | |
then | |
echo "Please provide a container/host name." | |
exit 1 | |
else | |
NAME="$1" | |
fi | |
if [ $(whoami) != "root" ] | |
then | |
echo "Root privileges required to run this script!" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
if test -n "$(lxc-ls -1 | grep $NAME)" | |
then | |
read -n 1 -p "$NAME exists. OK to destroy (y/n)? " answer | |
case ${answer:0:1} in | |
y|Y ) | |
echo | |
lxc-destroy -f -n $NAME | |
;; | |
* ) | |
echo | |
echo "OK, exiting." | |
exit 0 | |
;; | |
esac | |
fi | |
lxc-clone -s -o centos6base -n $NAME | |
echo "Starting $NAME." | |
lxc-start -d -n $NAME | |
echo -n "Determining IP address." | |
while test -z "$HOSTIP" | |
do | |
echo -n "." | |
HOSTIP=$(lxc-info -H -i -n $NAME) | |
sleep 1 | |
done | |
echo | |
echo "$NAME has IP $HOSTIP - updating $HOSTSFILE" | |
if test -n "$(grep $NAME $HOSTSFILE)" | |
then | |
sed -e "s/^\(.*\) $NAME $NAME\.local/$HOSTIP $NAME $NAME\.local/" -i $HOSTSFILE | |
else | |
echo "$HOSTIP $NAME $NAME.local" >> $HOSTSFILE | |
fi | |
echo "Restarting dnsmasq..." | |
pkill -HUP dnsmasq |
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