LXD cheat sheet
Container management
| Create Ubuntu container | lxc launch ubuntu:18.04 my-ubuntu-container |
| Create Debian container | lxc launch images:debian/buster my-debian-container |
| List containers | lxc list |
| Start container | lxc start my-debian-container |
| Stop container | lxc stop my-debian-container |
| Delete container | lxc delete my-debian-container |
| Edit container config | lxc config edit my-debian-container |
| Add explicit root disk | lxc config device add my-debian-container root disk pool=lvm-0 path=/ (pool shoud be the same as in the profile used for creating the container) |
| Set disk quota | lxc config device set my-debian-container root size 20GiB (does not work with 'dir' storage backend) |
| Add explicit eth0 | lxc config device add my-debian-container eth0 nic name=eth0 nictype=bridged parent=lxdbr0 |
| Assign IP to eth0 | lxc config device set my-debian-container eth0 ipv4.address 10.223.91.104 |
| Port forwarding with nat | lxc config device add my-debian-container http-proxy proxy listen=tcp:10.1.21.1:80 \ connect=tcp:10.223.91.104:80 nat=true |
Storage pool management
| List storage pools | lxc storage list |
| Create storage pool | lxc storage create my-lvm-pool lvm source=/dev/vda |
| Delete storage pool | lxc storage delete my-lvm-pool |
| Move container between pools | lxc stop my-container lxc move my-container my-container-temp -s target_pool lxc move my-container-temp my-container |
Profile management
| List profiles | lxc profile list |
| Create profile | lxc profile create my-profile |
| Edit profile | lxc profile edit my-profile |