Well, after doing a bit of learning, master now has ansible playbooks that configue a host to have two lxc containers one for running rsync and another for running natman. I also have a slightly modified version of the most official of all unofficial scripts for building a ubuntu image for a Raspberry Pi 2 which pre-installs a few extra packages that PDC will need. I still need to write the getting starting instructions for the code and will probably add a pre-built version of the ubuntu image, for those that don’t already have a linux machine running or just feel like skipping that step.

After working through the issues I had with Docker and looking more at the problems to solve, I have determined that a combination of lxc and ansible are better suited for the needs of this project. I do have a bit more reading and poking around with them to confirm this as the new plan and will keep the blog updated with progress.

Well it would seem that we have setback. I just tried to rebuid my test system from the instructions posted here again, and some of the packages have changed or are missing. There is one problem with upgrading the system, but the biggest problem is that the docker.io package is no longer available. I’m going to have to research what may have happened to it, but since docker was never supposed to be supported on armhf (at least yet), I don’t have high hopes in th near term. I’m probably going to have to work on building out the system without docker, which really isn’t too big of a problem.

Update:I’ve found that the docker.io package has been removed from the debain jessie repository. I sent a message to docker’s support email to see if it will be coming back, or if we will have to move to sid.

Update 2:At Peg + Cat say “Problem solved”, at least I think. It looks like the docker.io package was just removed from the debian jessie repository. I’m still trying to figure out why, but in the mean time I have switched over to using Ubuntu as the root OS for our Raspberry Pi 2. I have been able to get docker.io to install and I’m currently running the PDC scripts to ensure we don’t loose any ground with this change. I’ll have to update the main project page’s getting started directions, but the good news it the system running with Ubuntu seems to be faster which is nice.