# Running Ubuntu Snappy inside Docker

DevFeed: [Running Ubuntu Snappy inside Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/running-ubuntu-snappy-inside-docker-27099.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/03/25/running-ubuntu-snappy-inside-docker/>)

Author: andreacorbellini

Published: 2015-03-25T20:46:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Andrea Corbellini](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/andrea-corbellini.md>)

Topics: [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>), [Ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ubuntu.md>), [Package manager](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/package-manager.md>), [mount](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mount.md>), [qemu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/qemu.md>)

Tags: [apparmor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apparmor.md>), [container](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [mount](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mount.md>), [qemu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/qemu.md>), [snappy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/snappy.md>), [ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ubuntu.md>), [ubuntu-core](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ubuntu-core.md>), [xkcd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/xkcd.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial showing how to create and run an Ubuntu Core Docker image by downloading an Ubuntu Core image, accessing its filesystem with qemu-nbd, mounting the relevant partition, and creating a base Docker image. It also demonstrates installing and running a snappy package inside the container and discusses warnings related to AppArmor, DBus, and logind.

## Source excerpt

Many of you may have already heard of Ubuntu Core. For those who haven't, it's a minimal Ubuntu version, running only a few essential services and ships with a new package manager (snappy) that provides transactional updates. Ubuntu Core provides a lightweight base operating system which is fast to deploy and easy to maintain up to date. It also uses a nice ...