Working with LXD Containers

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Working with LXD Containers

LXD, or the Linux Container Daemon, lets us leverage the resource-lite LXC virtualization method, as well as providing additional support for the container images we use to spin up our containers. In this lab, we'll be creating a test LAMP stack by setting up two containers: one for our website and one for a database. Note the lab has been updated with a more recent alpine/edge image as alpine/3.10 is no longer available.

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Lab Info

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Sep 04, 2025

Duration

15m

Challenge

Review Provided Dev Environment
1. See if any existing servers have been created:
  
  lxc list
2. Remove any unrelated to the LAMP stack:
  
  lxc stop prometheus-test lxc delete prometheus-test
Challenge

Launch the web01 Containers
1. Create the web01 container:
  
  lxc launch alpine web01

Challenge

Configure the web01 Container

Upload the container:
```
lxc exec web01 -- apk update
```
Install nginx:
```
lxc exec web01 -- apk add nginx
```

Start and enable nginx:

lxc exec web01 -- sh -c "rc-service nginx start && rc-update add nginx default"

Challenge

Configure Container Boot Settings

Set the boot.autostart.priority for both containers:

lxc config set web01 boot.autostart.priority 50
lxc config set db01 boot.autostart.priority 90

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