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Creating LXD Container Profiles

A benefit of containers is the ability to create mass amounts of them in a short amount of time. LXD makes ensuring these containers all share the expected container-level instance configurations through the use of container profiles. In this hands-on lab, we will create a profile to use when deploying on a certain storage pool.

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Clock icon Apr 03, 2020

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create a New Profile

    Create new storage pool based on the default profile by copying the profile:

    lxc profile copy default dbs

  2. Challenge

    Add a New Device to the New Profile

    Add a new device for containers deployed using the dbs profile:

    lxc profile device add dbs dbs disk path=/dbs source=/dbs

  3. Challenge

    Change Instance Settings

    Set the instance boot values using the CLI:

    lxc profile set dbs boot.autostart.priority 99
lxc profile set dbs boot.stop.priority 1
lxc profile set dbs snapshots.schedule "0 0 * * *"

    Confirm the changes:

    lxc profile show dbs

  4. Challenge

    Use Profile with Instances

    Create a test image:

    lxc launch alpine test -p dbs

    Then assign it to the existing db01 container; remove any additional profiles:

    lxc profile add db01 dbs
lxc profile remove db01 default
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