Tag: networking

A network-isolated container in LXD

In this post we see how to get different types of network-isolated containers in LXD. Even if you are not interested in such things, doing this tutorial will help you understand better LXD proxy devices. LXD container with no networking To get a LXD container without networking, you omit the networking configuration in the profile …

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How to make your LXD containers get IP addresses from your LAN using a bridge

Background: LXD is a hypervisor that manages machine containers on Linux distributions. You install LXD on your Linux distribution and then you can launch machine containers into your distribution running all sort of (other) Linux distributions. Using macvlan. See https://blog.simos.info/how-to-make-your-lxd-container-get-ip-addresses-from-your-lan/ Using bridged. It is this tutorial, you are reading it now. Using routed. See https://blog.simos.info/how-to-get-lxd-containers-get-ip-from-the-lan-with-routed-network/ …

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How to make your LXD containers get IP addresses from your LAN using macvlan

Update 22 June 2020 I have updated this post to be compatible with LXD 4.0. I also adapted it in order to create an empty profile that does only the macvlan stuff and is independent of the default profile. Finally, I am calling the profile macvlan (previous name: lanprofile). WARNING #1: By using macvlan, your …

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