Zone Cloning
Task: Your development team wants a copy of this environment for testing purposes.
Lab: We will configure a new zone ('zone2
') and then clone it from
the existing zone1
.
First, configure zone2
the same way you've configured zone1
:
root@solaris:~# zonecfg -z zone2 zone2: No such zone configured Use 'create' to begin configuring a new zone. zonecfg:zone2> create create: Using system default template 'SYSdefault' zonecfg:zone2> select anet linkname=net0 (In spite of having only one anet, we still have to specify which one we select for configuration) zonecfg:zone2:anet> set allowed-address=10.0.2.22/24 (Use the IP address assigned by your instructor) zonecfg:zone2:anet> set defrouter=10.0.2.2 (Your instructor will give you the default gateway address) zonecfg:zone2:anet> end zonecfg:zone2> exit
Check:
root@solaris:~# zoneadm list -cv ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP 0 global running / solaris shared 1 zone1 running /zones/zone1 solaris excl - zone2 configured /zones/zone2 solaris excl
Then we create the new zone's profile. Start the System Configuration
Tool and repeat all the configuration steps you did for zone1
. Just
change Computer Name to zone2
.
root@solaris:~# sysconfig create-profile -o /root/zone2-profile
Before cloning we have to shutdown our running zone1
:
root@solaris:~# zoneadm -z zone1 shutdown
Now clone zone1
and configure zone2
automatically using this
profile:
root@solaris:~# zoneadm -z zone2 clone -c /root/zone2-profile zone1 root@solaris:~# zoneadm list -cv ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP 0 global running / solaris shared 1 zone1 installed /zones/zone1 solaris excl 2 zone2 installed /zones/zone2 solaris excl
Now boot both zones:
root@solaris:~# zoneadm -z zone1 boot root@solaris:~# zoneadm -z zone2 boot root@solaris:~# zoneadm list -cv ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP 0 global running / solaris shared 1 zone1 running /zones/zone1 solaris excl 2 zone2 running /zones/zone2 solaris excl
Success! And it was faster than the initial installation, wasn't it?
After it's done, login into zone2.
root@solaris:~# zlogin zone2
First of all, what about our Apache server?
root@zone2:~# pkg list '*apache*' NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION IFO web/server/apache-22 2.2.27-0.175.2.0.0.42.1 i--
Great! It's installed already! Check if it's running:
root@zone2:~# svcs *apache* online 11:48:47 svc:/network/http:apache22
Try the zone2's
address (10.0.2.22
or whatever IP you used in
zonecfg
step) in Firefox in the global zone.
This is Zone1 and it works! - of course, we have cloned not only the installed applications, but also all the files. Change it to Zone2, just for consistency sake. Now you know how to use the vi editor, don't you?
root@zone2:~# vi /var/apache2/2.2/htdocs/index.html