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Installing Containers with OpenVZ
OpenVZ is an open source containerization solution for Linux that allows you to create independent and isolated containers that look and behave just like regular Linux systems. In this hands-on lab, you are tasked with installing and configuring OpenVZ in order to create multiple Linux containers.

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Challenge
Add the OpenVZ repository and import the GPG signing key.
- Use
wget
to install the repository:
# wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/openvz.repo http://download.openvz.org/openvz.repo
- Use
rpm
to import the signing key:
# rpm --import http://download.openvz.org/RPM-GPG-Key-OpenVZ
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Challenge
Install the OpenVZ kernel and command line utility, as well as vzquota and ploop.
Install the OpenVZ kernel and command line utility, as well as
vzquota
andploop
. Once the packages are installed, reboot the machine to activate thevzkernel
.- Install the required packages:
# yum install -y vzkernel vzctl vzquota ploop
- Reboot the host to activate the OpenVZ kernel:
# reboot
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Challenge
Add the CentOS 6 template to the `/vz/template/cache` directory.
Use
wget
to download the template and place it in thecache
directory:# wget -O /vz/template/cache/centos-6-x86_64.tar.gz https://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/centos-6-x86_64.tar.gz
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Challenge
Create and start a container.
Create and start a container that uses container ID 105, has a hostname of
dev01
, and uses the CentOS 6 operating system with basic configuration.Use
vzctl
to create the container:# vzctl create 105 --hostname dev01 --ostemplate centos-6-x86_64 --config basic
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Challenge
Create and start a second container.
Create and start a container that uses container ID 110, has a hostname of test01, and uses the CentOS 6 operating system with basic configuration.
Use
vzctl
to create the container:# vzctl create 110 --hostname test01 --ostemplate centos-6-x86_64 --config basic
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