- Lab
- A Cloud Guru
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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Challenge
Review Provided Dev Environment
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See if any existing servers have been created:
lxc list -
Remove any unrelated to the LAMP stack:
lxc stop prometheus-test lxc delete prometheus-test
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Challenge
Launch the web01 Containers
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Create the
web01container:lxc launch alpine web01
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Challenge
Configure the web01 Container
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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"
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Challenge
Configure Container Boot Settings
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Set the
boot.autostart.priorityfor both containers:lxc config set web01 boot.autostart.priority 50 lxc config set db01 boot.autostart.priority 90
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