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Author: brendan <brendan@web>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 09:54:55 +0100
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-Containers have some efficiency advantages but the way they are typically set up can use a lot of space on disk and eat up a lot of ram with duplicate services. Standard Debian or CentOS containers easily require 200-600MB of space.
+Containers have some efficiency advantages but the way they are typically set up can use a lot of space on disk and eat up a lot of ram with duplicate services. Standard Debian or CentOS containers easily require 200-600MB of space each.
Docker and other popular container management systems are oriented towards more _enterprise_ scale operations where containers are frequently set up and torn down with automated cloud orchestration tools.
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### Build a new alpine container
+While it's possible to use the standard alpine tools to build a system image, somebody has made a [little script](https://github.com/quantum5/alpine-nspawn-install) that deals with a few small annoyances for us. The script is installed in /usr/sbin so you can just:
+
+'sudo alpine-nspawn-install -d /var/lib/machines/my_pmc_container -p alpine_pkg1 -p some_other_package`
+
+__TIP:__ systemd-nspawn images are basically just a normal filesystem tree under /var/lib/machines/my_pmc_container. So, in theory, you can do a lot of interaction with the conainer but just having a directory that is writeable from the containing host.
+
+### Run the container manually and set a root password
+
+
+
+### Set up networking
+
+### Enable the container
+
+### Connect via ssh
+
+### Optionally - set up an nginx proxy for public service
+
+#### References:
+
+1. Much of this document was based on [this blog post](https://quantum5.ca/2025/03/22/whirlwind-tour-of-systemd-nspawn-containers/)
