containers.md

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Running containers

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lima nerdctl run -d --name nginx -p 127.0.0.1:8080:80 nginx:alpine

or

nerdctl.lima run -d --name nginx -p 127.0.0.1:8080:80 nginx:alpine

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lima sudo systemctl enable --now containerd
lima sudo nerdctl run -d --name nginx -p 127.0.0.1:8080:80 nginx:alpine

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• For the usage of containerd and nerdctl (contaiNERD ctl), visit https://github.com/containerd/containerd and https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl.

• If you have installed Lima by make install, the nerdctl.lima command is also available as nerdctl. If you have installed Lima by brew install lima, you may make an alias (or a symlink) by yourself: alias nerdctl=nerdctl.lima

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limactl start template://docker
export DOCKER_HOST=$(limactl list docker --format 'unix://{{.Dir}}/sock/docker.sock')
docker run -d --name nginx -p 127.0.0.1:8080:80 nginx:alpine

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limactl start template://k8s
export KUBECONFIG=$(limactl list k8s --format 'unix://{{.Dir}}/copied-from-guest/kubeconfig.yaml')
kubectl apply -f ...

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• http://127.0.0.1:8080 is accessible from the host, as well as from the VM.

Accelerating pulls with eStargz

WIP

$ time nerdctl --snapshotter=overlayfs run -it --rm ghcr.io/stargz-containers/python:3.7-org python3 -c 'print("hi")'
[...]
hi

real	0m33.505s
user	0m2.962s
sys	0m6.629s

$ time nerdctl --snapshotter=stargz run -it --rm ghcr.io/stargz-containers/python:3.7-esgz python3 -c 'print("hi")'
[...]
hi

real	0m12.335s
user	0m0.469s
sys	0m0.522s