Crostini Setup

Recently bought a Pixelbook and I've discovered lots of news things about the Linux world that I've never been exposed to. Been working in .NET at every job I've had, so I've never actually come across LXC or LXD, or for that matter, ever executed a Shell script.

I had some fun in the past configuring a Powershell script to bootstrap a new installation of Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016 to 2019 that I still use on the odd occasion, and thought it would be fun to do the same thing for a penguin container!

The end goal is to execute a single script in the Terminal and have everything be magically setup for you in your container. It's really nice the way that ChromeOS syncs everything for you, so you can essentially reformat in minutes. However, with the container functionality being new and breaking, it would be nice to have an all in one script that did it for you.

Common commands

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Copy and paste this in your Terminal:

Full Install

This is designed for chromebooks with a bit more grunt than others

sudo apt -y install git && git clone https://github.com/Francommit/crostini_setup.git && cd crostini_setup && chmod +x ./bootstrap.sh && ./bootstrap.sh

Light Install

This is designed for lightweight chromebooks

sudo apt -y install git && git clone https://github.com/Francommit/crostini_setup.git && cd crostini_setup && chmod +x ./light_bootstrap.sh && ./light_bootstrap.sh

Miscellaneous pieces

SSH Keys

# Generate your ssh key
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C pixelbook

# Turn on the ssh agent and add the ssh key
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

# Copy it and past it to your specified server
cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub

LXD Daemon fun

# get into crosh in chrome
ctrl + alt + t

# get into your termina vm
vmc start termina

# get ubuntu up and running
lxc list
lxc launch ubuntu:18.04 ub
lxc exec ub bash

Configure the LXD client to remotely connect to termina

Using crosh, configure this in termina

lxc config set core.https_address :8443
lxc config set core.trust_password some-password

Perform the following in penguin/terminal

# Find the IP of termina
ip -4 route show
# Remotely connect to the LXD running outside of penguin (you'll need your password)
lxc remote add chromeos 100.115.92.193
# set the lxd client in penguin to always connect
lxc remote set-default chromeos 
# You should now have a list of the containers running in termina
lxc list

Docker Fun

Bamboo Server to go

docker volume create --name bambooVolume
docker run -v bambooVolume:/var/atlassian/application-data/bamboo --name="bamboo" --init -d -p 54663:54663 -p 8085:8085 atlassian/bamboo-server

Launch via http://penguin.linux.test:8085/ It keeps the db in the bambooVolume, so once you add your evaulation license you're good to go.

Portainer

docker volume create portainer_data
docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer

Launch via http://penguin.linux.test:9000/