Hack The Sec-Leading Resource Of Linux Tutorial: LXC

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<u><span style="color: red;"><i>Install and Setup LXC Linux Containers on <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Centos" target="_blank">CentOS </a>/ <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/RHEL" target="_blank">RHEL</a> / <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Ubuntu" target="_blank">Ubuntu</a></i></span></u></h1>
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LXC stands for Linux Containers.</div>
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Linux containers are light-weight “<b><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/virtualization" target="_blank">virtualization</a></b>” methods that runs multiple virtual units simultaneously on a single control host on a single Linux kernel.</div>
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The Linux kernel contains cgroups for resource isolation (CPU, memory, block I/O, network, etc, ), which does not require starting any virtual machines.<br />
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Cgroups also provides namespace isolation to completely isolate application view of the operating environment, including process trees, networks, userids and mounted filesystems.</div>
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LXC is open source software and licensed under GNU LGPLv2.1+ license.</div>
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Containers actually make use of kernel features called namespaces, cgroups, and chroots, to carve off a contained area.</div>
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So, the end result of LXC looks much like a virtual machine, but without any hypervisor.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><u>1. Pre-req for LXC Install</u></span></h3>
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Before you install LXC, make sure your system is up-to-date using yum update as shown below.</div>
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LXC is dependent on two libraries; libpcap and libcgroup. This also requires busybox and bridge utilities.</div>
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Install the following required packages for our LXC install.</div>
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Let us make sure we got all the compilers and related development tools that are required to compile and install any software from source code.</div>
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<u><span style="color: #0b5394;">2. Download LXC Linux Containers</span></u></h3>
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Download the latest version of the LXC from <a href="https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/downloads/" style="color: #dd0000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Linux Containers Project</a>.</div>
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Use wget to download the tar ball of the latest stable version of LXC to your machine as shown below.</div>
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If you get a certificate related error message while using the above wget, then use the no-check-certificate option as shown below.</div>
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Alternatively, if you prefer, you can also use git clone to download the latest development version or stable version as shown below.</div>
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In the above command, the {branch} can either be “master” for the current development branch, or “stable-1.0″ for the stable update branch of the 1.0 version.</div>
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<u><span style="color: #0b5394;">3. Configure Bridged Adapter</span></u></h3>
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Next, create a bridged adapter and configure the static IP on the bridged adapter as shown in the following ifcfg-eth0 example. Ensure your physical adapter points to this bridged adapter in ifcfg-eth0.</div>
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DEVICE="br0"
BOOTPROTO="static"
IPADDR="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
NETMASK="255.255.255.xxx"
ONBOOT="yes"
TYPE="Bridge"
NM_CONTROLLED="no"</span></span></pre>
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Replace all the “xxx” in the above file with the values that matches your ip-address and networkmask. For example, change the IPADDR value in the above file to the ip-address of your machine.</div>
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<u><span style="color: #0b5394;">4. Install LXC Linux Container</span></u></h3>
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Next, untar the LXC tar ball, that we downloaded earlier, execute the ./configure, and do make and make install, to install the LXC on your system as shown below.</div>
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By default, this will install all the lxc binaries under /usr/local/bin directory.</div>
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The following are few of the last few lines from the output for the above ./configure command.</div>
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config.status: creating src/python-lxc/setup.py
config.status: creating src/lua-lxc/Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
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Environment:
 - compiler: gcc
 - distribution: <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Centos" target="_blank">centos</a>
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> - init script type(s): sysvinit
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"> - rpath: no
 - GnuTLS: no
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> - Bash integration: yes
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">Security features:
 - Apparmor: no
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> - Linux capabilities: yes
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"> - seccomp: no
 - SELinux: no
 - cgmanager: no
Bindings:
 - lua: no
 - python3: no
Documentation:
 - examples: yes
 - API documentation: yes
 - user documentation: no
Debugging:
 - tests: no
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> - mutex debugging: no
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Paths:
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> - Logs in configpath: no</span></span></pre>
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The following are the last few lines from the output for the above make command.</div>
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Building full member lists recursively...
Adding members to member groups.
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</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Generating style sheet...
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">Generating index page...
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Generating page index...
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">Generating example documentation...
Generating file sources...
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Generating code for file /usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/src/lxc/attach_options.h...
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">Generating code for file /usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/src/lxc/lxccontainer.h...
Generating code for file /usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/src/lxc/lxclock.h...
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Generating file documentation...
Generating docs for file /usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/src/lxc/attach_options.h...</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">
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Generating file member index...
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/doc/api'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/doc'
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</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Making all in hooks
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/hooks'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">.
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The following are the last few lines from the output for the above make install command.</div>
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Making install in hooks
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/save/lxc-1.1.5/hooks'
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/lxc/hooks'
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> /usr/bin/install -c clonehostname mountecryptfsroot ubuntu-cloud-prep squid-deb-proxy-client '/usr/local/share/lxc/hooks'
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/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/var/lib/lxc
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/var/cache/lxc
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;"> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 lxc.pc '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'
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<u><span style="color: #0b5394;">5. Create Soft Link for LXC Shared Libraries</span></u></h3>
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Execute lxc-info to verify that the LXC is installed successfully. If everything is installed properly, we’ll see a message saying that the give container name (for example, test) doesn’t exist. We have not created any container at this stage. We just want to make sure this command is not throwing any shared library related errors.</div>
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test doesn't exist</span></span></pre>
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Depending on how things on configured on your system, you might also get the following liblxc.so.1 library related error message.</div>
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</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">lxc-info: error while loading shared libraries: liblxc.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</span></span></pre>
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In this case, to fix it, create a link called libxc.so.1 as shown below, which will point to the correct version of the liblxc.so.x.x.x file.</div>
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</span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.3em;">root@hackthesec:~$ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">ls -l /lib64/liblxc.so.1
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 30 Jan 20 09:17 /lib64/liblxc.so.1 -> /usr/local/lib/liblxc.so.1.1.5</span></span></pre>
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<u><span style="color: #0b5394;">6. Verify LXC Setup and Configuration</span></u></h3>
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Next, you can also execute the lxc-checkconfig to verify that your lxc environment is setup correctly.</div>
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The following will have output in four different sections: 1) Namespaces, 2) Control Groups 3) Misc and 4) Checkpoint/Restore. Partial output is shown below.</div>
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Kernel configuration not found at /proc/config.gz; searching...
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Kernel configuration found at /boot/config-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">--- Namespaces ---
Namespaces: enabled
Utsname namespace: enabled
Ipc namespace: enabled
Pid namespace: enabled
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">User namespace: enabled
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">Network namespace: enabled
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Multiple /dev/pts instances: enabled
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">--- Control groups ---
Cgroup: enabled
Cgroup namespace: enabled
Cgroup device: enabled
Cgroup sched: enabled
Cgroup cpu account: enabled
..
--- Misc ---
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Veth pair device: enabled
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">Macvlan: enabled
Vlan: enabled
Bridges: enabled
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">Advanced netfilter: enabled
</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">..
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">--- Checkpoint/Restore ---
CONFIG_EVENTFD: enabled
CONFIG_EPOLL: enabled</span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">
..
Note : Before booting a new kernel, you can check its configuration
</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: medium;">usage : CONFIG=/path/to/config /usr/local/bin/lxc-checkconfig</span></span></pre>
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If everything is configured properly on your system, in the above output, all of the options in the above groups should say “enabled”.</div>
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