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TurnKey LXC LinuX Containers

1 host, multiple TurnKey apps

Please note: TurnKey LXC host is not currently available from the TurnKey software appliance library.

The TurnKey Linux LXC host appliance has been discontinued (hopefully temporarily) due to quality control issues with a previous release. Resolving the issue was soaking up too many TKL resources so development has been put on hold until further notice. Unfortunately, due to internal resource limitations and other priorities, there is no ETA of when it may be available again. Thank you for your understanding.

We warmly welcome any community contributions to assist us to get the LXC host appliance fully functional and fit for purpose again.

In the meantime, we can recommend Proxmox Virtual Environment open source hypervisor. It is a lightweight, yet powerful and full featured product that provides a platform for LXC containers (and KVM VMs). The LXC builds of the TurnKey appliance library are available for download within the Proxmox webui.

Until further notice, this page remains available for informational purposes only.

TurnKey LXC simplifies downloading and deploying multiple TurnKey apps side-by-side on the same host in securely isolated lightweight containers while handling tricky details such as network routing. LXC (AKA LinuX Containers) is the rising star lightweight virtualization technology that powers Docker and other next generation software deployment platforms.

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This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

  • Includes TurnKey LXC template:
    • Download and create a container of any TurnKey appliance.
    • Insert specified inithooks.conf into container for preseeding.
    • Supports configuration of network link (e.g., br0, natbr0, none).
    • Supports configuration of apt proxy.
    • Verifies GPG signatures when available
    • Wrapper for lxc-destroy cleans up after container is removed
    • Supports LVM on TurnKey's default volume group 'turnkey'
    • Allows TurnKey Ansible appliance to manage LXC containers
    • Generic enough to be used on any LXC enabled distribution.
  • Easily expose NAT containers services:
    • nginx-proxy: Expose a containers web services to the network by creating an nginx site configuration to proxy all web requests (ports 80, 443, 12320, 12321, 12322) destined for a specific domain to the container on the corresponding ports.
    • iptables-nat: Expose a containers non-web (e.g., SSH) service to the network by configuring iptables on the host to forward the traffic it receives on port X to the container on port Y.
  • LXC appliance configurations:
    • Preconfigured network bridge interface (br0).
    • Preconfigured network NAT bridge interface (natbr0).
    • Preconfigured dnsmasq on natbr0 providing DHCP and DNS services. Containers can be referenced by hostname or hostname.local.lxc
    • Includes apt-cacher-ng, binding to natbr0 interface.
    • Includes TurnKey web control panel (convenience).
    • Includes example inithooks configuration for preseeding (convenience).
    • IP forwarding and control groups enabled.
  • LXC limitations:
    • The LXC appliance cannot run in nested mode i.e. within an LXC container without additional configuration. This mode is not recommended for production systems because of security concerns.

See the Usage documentation for further details.

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Usage details & Logging in for Administration

No default passwords: For security reasons there are no default passwords. All passwords are set at system initialization time.

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Username for OS system administration:

Login as root except on AWS marketplace which uses username admin.

  1. Point your browser to:
  2. Login with SSH client: 
    ssh root@12.34.56.789

    Special case for AWS marketplace:

    ssh admin@12.34.56.789

* Replace 12.34.56.789 with a valid IP or hostname.