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Launching LXD Containers

LXD, or the Linux Container Daemon, lets us leverage the resource-light 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 pull down and cache two separate images, then create a series of containers based on these images.

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Clock icon 15m
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Clock icon Jul 21, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Copy the Alpine Linux Image

    Copy the image to the LXD server, ensuring to provide an alias:

    lxc image copy images:alpine/edge local: --alias alpine

  2. Challenge

    Copy the Ubuntu Image

    Copy the image to the LXD server, ensuring to provide an alias:

    lxc image copy ubuntu: local: --alias ubuntu

  3. Challenge

    Launch the Alpine Linux Container

    Launch a new container, called alpine-test:

    lxc launch alpine alpine-test

  4. Challenge

    Launch the Ubuntu Container

    Launch the ubuntu-test container:

    lxc launch ubuntu ubuntu-test
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