Aug 30 2019
cloud-init is a tool to help you customize cloud images. When you launch a cloud image, you can provide to it with your cloud-init instructions, and the cloud image will execute them. In that way, you can start with a generic cloud image, and as soon as it booted up, it will be configured to …
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Aug 28 2019
If you have a look at the list of container images for LXD (repository images:), you will notice the recent addition of the Kali container images. These were added by Re4son (@kali.org). But Kali is a security distribution, does it make sense to create system containers with Kali? LXD offers system containers, which are similar …
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Aug 07 2019
You have just run lxc launch ubuntu:18.04 mycontainer and a new container is being created. The command returns very quickly (around 1-2s) and the container image starts running. The container image may take a few more seconds to complete, so that the init performs all the required tasks. The problem The question is, how do …
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Jul 03 2019
You are using LXD and you are creating many containers. Those containers are stored in a dedicated ZFS pool, and LXD is managing this ZFS pool exclusively. But disaster strucks, and LXD loses its database and forgets about your containers. Your data is there in the ZFS pool, but LXD has forgotten them because its …
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Jun 23 2019
Update #1 (26 December 2019): There is a newer overall post that describes the different ways to run a GUI program in a LXD container. And there is a fresh and simpler post that replaces this one. Original post continues below… I like to take care of my desktop Linux and I do so by …
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Jun 17 2019
Microsoft announced in May that the new version of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2), will be running on the Linux kernel, itself running alongside the Windows kernel in Windows. In June, the first version of WSL2 has been made available as long as you update your Windows 10 installation to the Windows Insider …
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