helm-lxc provides a Helm interface to manage your LXC
containers. With helm-lxc you can list the containers on your local
machine and on remote machines. You can start, stop, restart, freeze,
unfreeze your containers. You can also start a shell inside a
container using lxc-attach or SSH.
M-x package-install RET helm-lxc RET to install helm-lxc from MELPA
Add the following to your Emacs configuration:
(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/helm-lxc")
(require 'helm-lxc)To start helm-lxc, type M-x helm-lxc RET.
By default, it will list the privilegied containers running on the
current machine using sudo. If it’s not what you want you can
customize helm-lxc-hosts. For example if you want to list all the
privilegied and unprivilegied containers running on the current
machine but also the containers running on a remote machine called
foo (using SSH to connect to the remote machine), you can set
helm-lxc-hosts using the following code:
(setq helm-lxc-hosts
'(("localhost" . "/sudo::")
("localhost (unprivilegied)" . nil)
("foo" . "/ssh:root@foo:")))If you want more information about helm-lxc-hosts, you can
consult the documentation of the variable. helm-lxc provides other
variables to customize its behaviour that you can set using M-x
customize-group RET helm-lxc RET.
Once in the Helm session you can do all the usual things you can do
with Helm (filter containers, mark them, execute actions on them,
…). You can type C-h m (the default binding to invoke helm-help
while in a Helm session) to get a help buffer. The actions that you
can execute on a container depends on its state. To show the list of
available actions, type C-i (this is the default binding to invoke
helm-select-action while in a Helm session). helm-lxc also
provides some persistent actions which let you execute some actions
without quitting the Helm session. The persistent actions provided are
listed in the following table:
| Key bindings | Description |
|---|---|
C-s | Start the selected/marked containers |
C-d | Stop the selected/marked containers |
C-k | Destroy the selected/marked containers |
M-c | Clean the cache for the selected/marked containers |
Actions are executed on the selected container or on the marked containers.