Sep 05 2018
In a LXD (lex-dee) installation there is the host (where the LXD service is running) and there are the containers that you create. On the host, you can run the various lxc subcommands (like lxc list to get a list of the containers). The containers, on the other hand, are by default confined and isolated …
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Jul 23 2018
You have a cloud server and you got more than one public IP addresses. How do you get those additional IP addresses to associate to specific LXD containers? That is, how do you get your LXD container to use a public IP address? This post has been tested with a packet.net baremetal server. Prerequisites You …
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Jul 10 2018
Here is the announcement of the release of Minimal Ubuntu for public clouds and Docker Hub. Minimal Ubuntu is similar to Ubuntu Server, but with much less packages. Among the packages that are gone, it’s documentation packages, locales and other user-oriented packages. Obviously, you can install whichever packages you need. That is, for any package …
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Jun 28 2018
You can write instructions in a language like English, just like I do now with this blog post. If you want to write instructions for a computer, you are likely to use some sort of intermediate language that will then be converted into raw instructions suitable for the computer. Those intermediate languages are the programming …
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Jun 25 2018
Note: This post is about LXD containers. These are system containers, which means they are similar to Docker but behave somewhat like virtual machines. When you start a LXD (lex-dee) container, you are starting a new system on your computer, with its own IP address and all. You can get LXD as a snap package. …
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Jun 14 2018
Update: 12 Oct 2018 – The systemd service file and the LXD lxdbr0 configuration have been updated according to the comment by mDfRgmd. Please check again and verify that you are using the updated version. If you have two LXD containers, mycontainer1 and mycontainer2, then you can reference each other with those handy *.lxd hostnames …
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