When you launch a new LXD container, LXD applies the default LXD profile unless you specify a different profile. By adding configuration to a LXD profile, you can launch containers with specific parameters such as specific network configuration. In the following we see how this default LXD profile looks like, and then use cloud-init instructions …
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Sep 06 2019
How to use the LXD Proxy Device to map ports between the host and the containers
LXD supports proxy devices, which is a way to proxy connections between the host and containers. This includes TCP, UDP and Unix socket connections, in any combination between each other, in any direction. For example, when someone connects to your host on port 80 (http), then this connection can be proxied to a container using …
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Aug 30 2019
Cloud-init support in LXD container images
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
Using the LXD Kali container image
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
How to know when a LXD container has finished starting up
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
Reconnecting your LXD installation to the ZFS storage pool
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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