Running Archlinux container

[Daisuke]

Anyone has quick instructions how to run Archlinux in a container with systemd enabled? I would like to install several packages like sonarr and radarr and run them inside container. Not interested about plugins, I prefer to learn how to run services inside a container I create myself in TrueNAS SCALE.

Basically, I try to emulate what I currently do with CORE jails, I have one jail with all the packages running inside. What direction should I take with SCALE? I prefer not to use a VM, I rather use Docker or LXC.

Thank you for your help.

 

[truecharts]

(docker)containers are not persistent, so all your packages will be wiped on any container restart.
What you're most-likely looking for is LXC containerisation (which, basically, works like a jail), which is not supported on SCALE.

So in short:
What you want is simply not possible on TrueNAS SCALE at this time.*

* Unless you start building your own docker container for it

 

[Daisuke]

* Unless you start building your own docker container for it

Yes, that is what I plan to do, start with a Dockerfile that has everything I need inside. Next week I'm going to install SCALE into a new NAS I'm building now.

 

[Jip-Hop]

You can use systemd-nspawn to run Linux containers on SCALE (like jails). I made a script which creates and starts a Debian 'jail' but it's also possible to run Arch instead of Debian.