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By Abhishek Ghosh September 27, 2017 5:42 am Updated on September 27, 2017

How to Install and Set Up LXD on Ubuntu 16.04

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LXD works with a directory based storage backend. LXD is lxc with strong security. We can install LXD, ZFS and Bridge-Utils on Ubuntu 16.04 and configure that LXD to use a physical ZFS partition or loopback device combined with a bridged networking setup allowing for containers to pick up IP addresses via DHCP on the vLAN. For a dedicated server which runs multiple web sites with Linux containers, each web site can be set up in its own container and own web server. Using LXD, we can bundle application and its dependencies in a container without affecting the rest of the system. Here is How to Install and Set Up LXD on Ubuntu 16.04. Official information around LXD can be found on :

 

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https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/lxd.html
https://insights.ubuntu.com
https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it/

How to Install and Set Up LXD on Ubuntu 16-04

 

How to Install and Set Up LXD on Ubuntu 16.04

 

LXD normally installed on Ubuntu, but we need to configure and check before we can use it on a going to be production server :

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apt update
apt upgrade
apt install lxd zfsutils-linux bridge-utils
sudo zfs list

After running the last command, you’ll get an output like below :

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NAME              USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
blahblah          744K   461G   192K  /blahblah
blahblah/lxdvms   192K   461G   192K  /blahblah/lxdvms

Open /etc/network/interfaces :

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nano /etc/network/interfaces

The file should be configured like this at minimum :

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...
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
 
# The primary network interface
auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports eth0
 
iface eth0 inet manual
...
...

Run :

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sudo ifdown eth0 && sudo ifup eth0 && sudo ifup br0

Run ifconfig command to make sure that the system took the changes. We used a dedicated hard drive for the ZFS storage. For who will use a loopback file, the procedure is somewhat different. We can run :

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sudo fdisk -l

to check the disk spaces and remove any fstab entry. Open sysctl.conf :

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nano /etc/sysctl.conf

change some config like below :

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fs.inotify.max_queued_events = 1048576
fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 1048576
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 1048576
...

Open limits.conf file :

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nano /etc/security/limits.conf

change some config like below :

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* soft nofile 100000
* hard nofile 100000

Soft reboot and SSH back on console :

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reboot

Then run :

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sudo lxd init

It will ask lot of questions, keep everything at default except few. Example :

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sudo lxd init
Name of the storage backend to use (dir or zfs): zfs
Create a new ZFS pool (yes/no)? yes
Name of the new ZFS pool: lxd
Would you like to use an existing block device (yes/no)? yes
Path to the existing block device: /dev/sdb1
Would you like LXD to be available over the network (yes/no)? no
Do you want to configure the LXD bridge (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Stopping lxd.service, but it can still be activated by:
  lxd.socket
LXD has been successfully configured.

After completing lxd init step like above, add the br0 interface to the default profile with :

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lxc network attach-profile br0 default eth0

Exactly like Docker, LXD is also image based which provides three main options for obtaining images – remote, built-in, and local imports. In order to see which sources are available, run :

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lxc remote list

We can use the official Ubuntu image repo to spin up a Ubuntu container with the command :

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lxc launch ubuntu:xenial testcontainer

Or CenOS with this command :

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lxc launch images:centos/7/amd64 testcenots

To check the status of the container, run :

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lxc list

You’ll get something like :

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+---------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
|    NAME       |  STATE  |        IPV4          | IPV6 |    TYPE    | SNAPSHOTS |
+---------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
| testcontainer | RUNNING | 192.168.0.197 (eth0) |      | PERSISTENT | 0         |
+---------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+

To start and stop containers run :

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lxc stop name-of-container
lxc start name-of-container

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "How to Install and Set Up LXD on Ubuntu 16.04," in The Customize Windows, September 27, 2017, February 4, 2023, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2017/09/install-set-lxd-ubuntu-16-04/.

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