…and more importantly, where is that setting stored so I can turn it on for all of them?
I realize this varies according to OS, so I’m specifically asking about my Turnkey Nextcloud and Turnkey Mediaserver containers, which are based on Debian Linux. It’s perhaps worth noting that my Turnkey Syncthing container, which uses the same base OS, does register its hostname with my DHCP server. I’ve gone digging around in /etc/
etc. in each of the containers, but so far I haven’t found any configuration differences that would explain the difference in behavior. (Also, if it matters, my DHCP server is the one included with OpenWRT and running on my router.)
By the way, I’m aware that the best answer might be “you have an X/Y problem and you really ought to use static IPs and/or setup a reverse proxy,” but I haven’t gotten to that point yet. Besides, I still want to satisfy my curiosity about DHCP and hostnames regardless.
EDIT: to be clear, this post is about LXC containers running directly in Proxmox, NOT Docker.
You can pass hostnames in docker compose easily with
hostname: myhostname
Sometimes you can use container names too
container_name: myapp
It is that easy ☺️
I’m asking about LXC containers, not Docker containers.
Okay this is easy too to set a hostname on debian or ubuntu Container:
hostnamectl set-hostname myname
root# hostnamectl status
~
Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
Try this
apt-get install libpam-systemd
Restart LXC afterwards and try again. Let me know if it works now 🐱
https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/manpages/man5/lxc.container.conf.5.html
Maybe this can point you in the right direction.
I’m not familiar with LXC - do you put together your container from scratch kinda like a FreeBSD jail?