LXD Tools

IMPORTANT: All this is experimental !

Requirements

It is compatible with :

Ubuntu 18.04 with LXD 3
Ubuntu 20.04 with LXD 4
Ubuntu 22.04 with LXD 5

It has not been tested on other versions.

The LXD package must have been installed :

With apt (for old versions of Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install lxd

Or with snap (for new versions of Ubuntu):

sudo snap install lxd

And configured :

sudo lxd init

IMPORTANT:

During the init, use the default choice for each question, except for the type of the storage-pools. For storage-pools, answer dir.

Would you like to use LXD clustering? (yes/no) [default=no]: 
Do you want to configure a new storage pool? (yes/no) [default=yes]: 
Name of the new storage pool [default=default]: 
Name of the storage backend to use (cephobject, dir, lvm, zfs, btrfs, ceph) [default=zfs]: dir
Would you like to connect to a MAAS server? (yes/no) [default=no]: 
Would you like to create a new local network bridge? (yes/no) [default=yes]: 
What should the new bridge be called? [default=lxdbr0]: 
What IPv4 address should be used? (CIDR subnet notation, “auto” or “none”) [default=auto]: 
What IPv6 address should be used? (CIDR subnet notation, “auto” or “none”) [default=auto]: 
Would you like the LXD server to be available over the network? (yes/no) [default=no]: 
Would you like stale cached images to be updated automatically? (yes/no) [default=yes]: 
Would you like a YAML "lxd init" preseed to be printed? (yes/no) [default=no]:

Remote

You must have the following configured remotes:

ubuntu-minimal: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/
debian: https://xxx

You can see the remotes with:

lxd remote list

You can add the debian remote with:

lxc remote add debian https://xxx --protocol simplestreams

How To

Clone this repo, and launch the init script:

./install.sh

Then you can:

create a lxd container with lxd-deploy [name] [template-name]
remove a lxd container with lxd-remove [name]
list your lxd containers with lxd-list

lxdfile

you can create a lxdfile to easily configure a lxd. Here is a example:

name=test
template=debian-10-buster
host=test.lxd
host=test.local
delivery-user=delivery
mount=.:/var/www/toto
mount=/other/folder:/var/www/titi

then you can:

create your lxd with lxd-deploy
remove your lxd with lxd-remove

Templates

The available templates are listed below.

Debian

debian-10-buster
debian-11-bullseye
debian-12-bookworm

Ubuntu

ubuntu-18_04-bionic
ubuntu-20_04-focal
ubuntu-22_04-jammy

Centos

centos-8
centos-9

LXD native commands

Look at this documentation for native LXD commands.

Help & Support

For questions and bug reports, please use the GitHub issues page.

License

This program is distributed under the MIT License. For more information see the ./LICENSE.md file.

spipu/lxd-tools