Snap container management

snap is a "container" system that encapsulates and somewhat isolates a complex program. We will use it for 2 or our services:

• mdbook
• CouchDB

While it is certainly possible to build those programs from freely available source code, there are some complex dependencies that make the process rather tedious.

Setup

If you have followed the setup sequentially, snapd should already be installed. Otherwise use the steps in initial setup to access the server and install snapd

Reset console

First, unlike other installation steps, snap needs you to log out and log back in to your server. (This is to make sure that your $PATH is set correctly so snap programs can be found).

More setup

snap install core