We are actively seeking maintainers for the chef-provisioning-lxc driver. This project is not under active maintenance by CHEF, and does not currently pass tests with the latest version of chef-provisioning. If you are interested in maintaining it, please contact us in the gitter.

This is the LXC provisioner for chef-provisioning.

Assuming you have host with working LXC setup already, you can directly invoke an example recipe using chef localmode

• Clone chef-provisioning-lxc repo

  git clone https://github.com/chef/chef-provisioning-lxc

• Run bundle install

  bundle install

• Execute the test recipe to create a linux container

  bundle exec chef-client -z -o recipe[lxctests::simple] -c test/client.rb

require 'chef/provisioning'
machine 'mario' do
  recipe 'apache2'
end

To specify provisioning options that will be used with all subsequent machine definitions:

with_machine_options :template => <template name>,
  :template_options => <arguments>,
  :backing_store => <backing store>

These options correspond to the options in lxc create:

• template: the LXC template name to use.
• template_options: An array of string arguments to pass to the template.
• backing_store: The backing store to use for the file system.