create

create

Usage: hyper create [OPTIONS] IMAGE [COMMAND] [ARG...]

Create a new container

          -a, --attach=[]                 Attach to STDIN, STDOUT or STDERR
          --cidfile                       Write the container ID to the file
          --disable-content-trust=true    Skip image verification
          -e, --env=[]                    Set environment variables
          --entrypoint                    Overwrite the default ENTRYPOINT of the image
          --env-file=[]                   Read in a file of environment variables
          --expose=[]                     Expose a port or a range of ports
          -h, --hostname                  Container host name
          --help                          Print usage
          -i, --interactive               Keep STDIN open even if not attached
          -l, --label=[]                  Set meta data on a container
          --label-file=[]                 Read in a line delimited file of labels
          --link=[]                       Add link to another container
          --name                          Assign a name to the container (max length: 48)
          --noauto-volume                 Do not create volumes specified in image
          -P, --publish-all               Publish all exposed ports
          -p, --publish=[]                Publish a container's port(s)
          --protection=false              Termination protection for container
          --restart=no                    Restart policy to apply when a container exits
          --sg=[]                         Security group for each container
          --size=s4                       The type for each instance (e.g. s1, s2, s3, s4, m1, m2, m3, l1, l2, l3)
          --stop-signal=SIGTERM           Signal to stop a container, SIGTERM by default
          -t, --tty                       Allocate a pseudo-TTY
          -v, --volume=[]                 Bind mount a volume
      --volumes-from=[]               Mount shared volumes from the specified container(s)
          -w, --workdir                   Working directory inside the container

The hyper create command creates a writeable container layer over the specified image and prepares it for running the specified command. The container ID is then printed to STDOUT. This is similar to hyper run -d except the container is never started. You can then use the hyper start <container_id> command to start the container at any point.

This is useful when you want to set up a container configuration ahead of time so that it is ready to start when you need it. The initial status of the new container is created.

Please see the run command section for more details.

Examples

$ hyper create -t -i fedora bash
6d8af538ec541dd581ebc2a24153a28329acb5268abe5ef868c1f1a261221752
$ hyper start -a -i 6d8af538ec5
bash-4.2#

Container volumes are initialized during the hyper create phase (i.e., hyper run too). For example, this allows you to create the data volume container, and then use it from another container:

$ hyper create -v /data --name data ubuntu
240633dfbb98128fa77473d3d9018f6123b99c454b3251427ae190a7d951ad57
$ hyper run --rm ubuntu ls -la /data
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Dec  5 04:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 4096 Dec  5 04:11 ..