Difference between revisions of "Containers and virtual machines"

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^ Container Software

Notes on Docker containerizing software. Note, to get a practical start it is a good and or needed step to create a user account with Docker dot com. Single user and free accounts with some advanced Docker features disabled are available. A good starting tutorial for beginners is written by one Brian Hogan of Digital Ocean, this article published 2018 July 5. First reference in list here:

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-18-04
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-remove-docker-images-containers-and-volumes Remove Docker image

Ted noting too there may be a daily limit to the number of docker images which a user with a free account can push to Docker's image repository. Docker's image repository provides URLs of the form https://hub.docker.com/u/<user_name>, where username is the given person's Docker account user name.

Containers, Kubernetes . . .

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/what-is-kubernetes/

Not a container per se but a virtual machine software:

• https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

^ Oracle Corporation VirtualBox software

VirtualBox on-line manual

• https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#virt-why-useful
Some important VM terms include,
• host OS . . . the OS on which VirtualBox software runs
• guest OS . . . the OS which runs inside a VirtualBox VM instance
• virtual machine . . . the hosting environment which VirtualBox creates for given guest OS

To set up shared folders in VirtualBox instances, see VirtualBox documentation chapter 4 at the first following URL. There are also some needed steps detailed in same Oracle documentation, chapter 2, second URL here:

• https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html
• https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#externalkernelmodules

Following screen capture is from Ted's work setting up virtual Ubuntu host.

Figure 1 - capture of VM Ubuntu guest OS command prompt, with steps to mount VirtualBox CDROM drive:



Interestingly, mounting the device /dev/sr0 within the guest OS provides access to several files which we did not see or explicitly install when installing VirtualBox framework software. Scripts to set up needed Linux kernel modules are among these files at /media/cdrom.

To configure port forwarding, for ssh from host OS to guest OS:

• https://nsrc.org/workshops/2014/btnog/raw-attachment/wiki/Track2Agenda/ex-virtualbox-portforward-ssh.htm

Where VirtualBox stores its files . . .

• https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/admin/vboxconfigdata.html




^ References

For Ubuntu installs be sure to make /boot large enough, e.g. ~500MB when creating a separate /boot partition:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1876562