Balenaos-in-container tutorial

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Hello everyone :wave:,

I wanted to share what I’ve achieved as of now (Septembre, 13th 2021) with the official (and new) balenaos-in-container v1.0.0 image.

ssh onto a fresh installed debian buster instance

login as root

sudo su - root

install system dependencies

apt-get update
apt-get install --yes docker.io docker-compose wget unzip

setup balenaos-in-container

git clone https://github.com/balena-os/balenaos-in-container.git
echo '{"deviceType": "intel-nuc","localMode": true,"persistentLogging": false}' > ~/balenaos-in-container/config.json
docker-compose --project-directory ~/balenaos-in-container -f ~/balenaos-in-container/docker-compose.yml up --detach

check that the container is up and running

docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                      COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
1498efb58a8d        balenaos-in-container_os   "/entry.sh"         3 hours ago         Up 3 hours                              balenaos-in-container_os_1

setup balena-cli

wget https://github.com/balena-io/balena-cli/releases/download/v12.48.11/balena-cli-v12.48.11-linux-x64-standalone.zip
unzip balena-cli-v12.48.11-linux-x64-standalone.zip
rm balena-cli-v12.48.11-linux-x64-standalone.zip
alias balena=~/balena-cli/balena
balena login

find the ip address of the supervisor

balena scan
Scanning for local balenaOS devices... Reporting scan results
- 
  host:          5850a07.local
  address:       172.17.0.2       <---------- there it is!
  osVariant:     development
  dockerInfo: 
    Containers:        1
    ContainersRunning: 1
    ContainersPaused:  0
    ContainersStopped: 0
    Images:            2
    Driver:            overlay2
    SystemTime:        2021-09-13T12:00:23.2713827Z
    KernelVersion:     4.19.0-17-cloud-amd64
    OperatingSystem:   balenaOS 2.58.6+rev1 (containerized)
    Architecture:      x86_64
  dockerVersion: 
    Version:    19.03.13-dev
    ApiVersion: 1.40

setup your project locally and push it

git clone <my_fleet>
cd <my_fleet>
balena push <supervisor_ip_address>

You should be good to go

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Nice work here @pcorbel! Thanks for the tutorial!

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