Start container, after fully start statt next container

Incus
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Hi,

Is it possible to start for example a firewall vm. Wait till its fully started and the start pther containers and vm?.

So wait till the fw is fully started and then continue starting other machines.

2

Hello!

These are the boot options for instances. You will likely need to experiment with boot.autostart.priority. There’s a priority in starting the instances but I do not think there is a check to see whether an instance has finished booting up, or the services are up and running.

When you use a firewall, it’s important to setup your containers in a way that if the necessary interface is not there, then there is not network connectivity yet.

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I have another way to do this, but you need to write script.
First, you need to know firewall instance state:
incus query --request GET /1.0/instances/<instance_name>/state

If it’s “Running”. Then you can start other instances:
incus query --request PUT /1.0/instances/<instance_name>/state --data {"action":"start"}

But if you didn’t manual stop instances before you shutdown your computer, they will ignore the cmd.