https://github.com/tpokorra/lxd-scripts

scripts useful for running a server with several lxd containers. Now moved on to Incus: https://codeberg.org/tpokorra/incus-scripts
https://github.com/tpokorra/lxd-scripts

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scripts useful for running a server with several lxd containers. Now moved on to Incus: https://codeberg.org/tpokorra/incus-scripts

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tpokorra/lxd-scripts
• Owner: tpokorra
• Archived: true
• Created: 2020-03-06T21:43:37.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-08T20:51:03.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T12:50:00.527Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: containers, lxd
• Language: Shell
• Homepage: https://codeberg.org/tpokorra/incus-scripts
• Size: 172 KB
• Stars: 12
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: Readme.md

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Purpose

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These scripts are useful to manage your own server, with several Linux containers.

Installation

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* Either clone this code repository: `cd ~; git clone https://github.com/tpokorra/lxd-scripts.git scripts`

* You need to install these dependencies:

```

# For Ubuntu:

apt-get install snapd

snap install lxd

apt-get install lxc-utils cgroup-lite python3-lxc bsdmainutils cron patch debootstrap

```

```

# For Fedora:

dnf install lxd lxd-client lxc-utils gpg libvirt tar rsync net-tools debootstrap crontabs

```

* Or install a package from LBS: https://lbs.solidcharity.com/package/tpokorra/lbs/lxd-scripts

 * There is a lxd-scripts package for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) and Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal), and latest Fedora, with instructions how to install the package

 * To make things easier, I usually create a symbolic link: `cd ~; ln -s /usr/share/lxd-scripts scripts`

After installing the package, run these scripts for initializing the firewall and LXD:

    /usr/share/lxd-scripts/initLXD.sh

    /usr/share/lxd-scripts/initIPTables.sh

CheatSheet for my LXD scripts

---------------------------------

* Initialise the host IPTables so that they will be survive a reboot: `~/scripts/initIPTables.sh`

* Setup of LXD, and create ssh keys: `~/scripts/initLXD.sh`

* Create a container (with networking etc): `~/scripts/initFedora.sh $name $id`

 * Call the script without parameters to see additional parameters, eg to specify the version of the OS etc: `~/scripts/initFedora.sh`

 * There are scripts for creating Fedora, CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu containers

* Containers are created in `/var/lib/lxd/containers/$name`, see the directory `rootfs`

* or with the LXD snap, see `/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/default/containers/`

* Start a container: `lxc start $name`

* Start a container with console: `lxc console $name`

* Attach to the container: `lxc exec $name -- /bin/bash`

* Stop a container: `lxc stop $name`

* Destroy a container: `lxc delete $name`

* Enable Auto-start for a container: `lxc config set $name boot.autostart true`

* List all containers, with running state and IP address: `lxc list`

 * alternatively, there is this script: `~/scripts/listcontainers.sh`

 * this also shows the OS of the container

 * ~/scripts/listcontainers.sh running: shows only running containers

 * ~/scripts/listcontainers.sh stopped: shows only stopped containers

* Stop all containers: `~/scripts/stopall.sh`

* Take a snapshot of a container: `lxc snapshot $name clean`

* Restore a snapshot of a container: `lxc restore $name clean`