Step-by-Step Guide to Installing Minimal Container on Proxmox

Linux containers essentially break the two pieces of an operating system up even further. It allows the two pieces to be managed independently, the container host and the container image. The container host comprises an operating system kernel and small userspace with a minimal set of libraries and daemons necessary to run containers. Please see How to install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu, How to access MySQL Server from command Prompt, and How to delete a MySQL User Account.

The container image comprises the libraries, interpreters, configuration files of an operating system userspace, and the developer’s application code. Below are the steps to install a minimal container template on a Proxmox Server

Navigate to the following directory to see how to install a minimal Container template on a Proxmox Server

			
root@chris:~# cd /var
root@chris:/var# cd lib
root@chris:/var/lib# ls
apparmor initramfs-tools mlocate python-support urandom
apt initscripts nfs qemu-server usbutils
aptitude insserv open-iscsi rrdcached vim
container libxml-sax-perl pam samba vz
corosync logrotate postfix sgml-base xml-core
dbus lxc pve-cluster systemd
dhcp lxcfs pve-firewall tex-common
dictionaries-common man-db pve-manager ucf
dpkg misc python update-rc.d

		

			
root@chris:/var/lib# cd vz
root@chris:/var/lib/vz# ls
dump images lost+found private root template
root@chris:/var/lib/vz#
root@chris:/var/lib/vz#

		

			
root@chris:/var/lib/vz# cd template/cache/
root@chris:/var/lib/vz/template/cache#

			
root@chris:/var/lib/vz/template/cache# wget http://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/download.openvz.org/template/precreated/ubuntu-15.10-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz
 --2016-04-22 11:07:47-- http://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/download.openvz.org/template/precreated/ubuntu-15.10-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz
Resolving mirror.yandex.ru (mirror.yandex.ru)... 213.180.204.183, 2a02:6b8::183
Connecting to mirror.yandex.ru (mirror.yandex.ru)|213.180.204.183|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 91609120 (87M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ubuntu-15.10-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz’
ubuntu-15.10-x86_64 100%[=====================>] 87.37M 8.89MB/s in 12s
2016-04-22 11:07:59 (7.18 MB/s) - ‘ubuntu-15.10-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz’ saved [9160kl9120/91609120]

		

root@chris:/var/lib/vz/template/cache#