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ubuntu-dev-container
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Ubuntu linux container for systemd-spawn intended for development usage
Ubuntu linux container for systemd-spawn intended for development usage.
Ships with Mininet and a few other deps. See the Containerfile for more info.
npm install -g ubuntu-dev-container
When installing the container is built. The container user is the same as your host user.
ubuntu-dev-container # opens a container shell
ubuntu-dev-container --boot # does a full linux boot in the container
ubuntu-dev-container -b # same as above
ubuntu-dev-container /bin/bash # spawn a command in the container
Inside the container, the host cwd and home folder is mounted
at mnt/cwd and mnt/home.
In addition the container runs in privileged mode and mounts your ssh config, vim config, npm config and gitconfig in home.
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Ubuntu linux container for systemd-spawn intended for development usage
The npm package ubuntu-dev-container receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, ubuntu-dev-container popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that ubuntu-dev-container demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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