arata, baffa and condo

This page describes the installation of arata, baffa and condo, which are my disposable test containers.

Hardware

• LXC container with UID/GID offsets according to my UID/GID offset standard
• 1 x CPU
• 1 GB RAM
• to be partitioned according to my partitioning standard (revision 1)
• 1 NIC on public network (192.168.1.0/24)

Procedure

The commands below are for arata, but the same commands apply also to baffa and condo.

Note that the development containers run on the test virtualisation cluster.

1. Make note of the following volume creation commands:

   create-perfect-drbd-vol -v --remote=pestaroli --name=arata --size=5G \
       --name1=testaroli --ip1=192.168.3.31 --name2=pestaroli --ip2=192.168.3.32 \
       --vg=vg1

   and the following container recreation commands:

   create-basic-lxc-cnt -v --remote=pestaroli --name=arata \
       --offset=300000 \
       --mem=1G \
       --disk=block:/dev/drbd_arata \
       --nic=bridge:br0 \
       --release=bookworm

2. Complete Installing Debian 12 on an LXC container with the default hardware.
3. The configuration of services on test systems is not documented here.
4. Complete Finalising a Linux installation.

See also

• Computing