scratchy
Quickly bootstrap a Linux distro in a (non-Docker) container and interactively execute something in it.
Note: this is early stage and automatic bootstrapping only supports ArchLinux as of now.
Installation
From Source
Make sure you have a working Go environment (Go 1.11 or higher is required). See the install instructions.
Compiling scratchy is easy, simply run:
git clone https://github.com/muesli/scratchy.git
cd scratchy
go build
Usage
Bootstrap a new base ArchLinux install into a directory:
(make sure package arch-install-scripts is installed on your host!)
$ sudo scratchy bootstrap /some/root
Bootstrapping arch: /some/root
==> Creating install root at /some/root
==> Installing packages to /some/root
...
Successfully bootstrapped root: /some/root
Start a bash shell inside the container:
$ sudo scratchy run /some/root /bin/bash
Copying /etc/resolv.conf to /some/root/etc/resolv.conf
Executing in container (/some/root): /bin/bash
[root@container /]#
Start with a specific uid/gid inside container:
$ sudo scratchy -uid 1000 -gid 1000 run /some/root /bin/ps ax
Executing in container (/some/root): /bin/ps ax
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? Sl+ 0:00 /proc/self/exe -uid 1000 -gid 1000 child /some/root /bin/ps ax
6 ? R+ 0:00 /bin/ps ax