How to manage Anbox Cloud¶
To use Anbox Cloud, you will need to enable it directly through the
Ubuntu Pro Client (pro
), which will install all the necessary snaps and set
up the APT sources needed for the service.
Note
Anbox Cloud is supported on all recent Ubuntu LTS releases (from 20.04 LTS onward). Refer to the Anbox Cloud requirements page for more details.
Make sure pro
is up-to-date¶
All systems come with pro
pre-installed through the
ubuntu-advantage-tools
package. To make sure that you’re running the latest
version of pro
, run the following commands:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install ubuntu-advantage-tools
Check the status of the services¶
After you have attached your subscription and
updated the ubuntu-advantage-tools
package, you can check which services
are enabled by running the following command:
pro status
This will show you which services are enabled or disabled on your machine (output truncated for brevity):
SERVICE ENTITLED STATUS DESCRIPTION
esm-apps yes enabled Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications
esm-infra yes enabled Expanded Security Maintenance for Infrastructure
livepatch yes enabled Canonical Livepatch service
realtime-kernel yes disabled Ubuntu kernel with PREEMPT_RT patches integrated
Enable Anbox¶
To enable Anbox Cloud, run:
$ sudo pro enable anbox-cloud
Important
The Anbox Cloud service can only be installed on containers using the
--access-only
flag. This option will only set up the APT sources for
Anbox, but not install any of the snaps.
You should see output like the following, indicating that Anbox Cloud was correctly enabled on your system:
One moment, checking your subscription first
Installing required snaps
Installing required snap: amc
Installing required snap: anbox-cloud-appliance
Installing required snap: lxd
Updating package lists
Anbox Cloud enabled
To finish setting up the Anbox Cloud Appliance, run:
$ sudo anbox-cloud-appliance init
You can accept the default answers if you do not have any specific
configuration changes.
For more information, see https://anbox-cloud.io/docs/tut/installing-appliance
You have probably noticed that the output states an additional step is required to complete the Anbox Cloud setup. Let us run the required command:
$ sudo anbox-cloud-appliance init
You can now confirm that the service is enabled by running the pro status
command again. It should contain the following line for anbox-cloud
:
SERVICE ENTITLED STATUS DESCRIPTION
anbox-cloud yes enabled Scalable Android in the cloud
Disable the service¶
If you wish to disable Anbox, you can use the following command to disable it:
sudo pro disable anbox-cloud
Note that this command will only remove the APT sources, but will not uninstall the snaps.
To also purge the service, removing all the APT packages installed with it, see how to disable and purge services.