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2. Installation

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This chapter explains the installation steps for LXC and LXD in Ubuntu GNU/Linux. If you have already installed LXC and LXD and have a working setup, then you can safely skip this chapter.

LXC is supported by all modern GNU/Linux distributions, and there should already be an LXC package available from the standard package repositories for your distro.

The installation, illustrations, and examples throughout this book demonstrate version 2.0.7 of the LXC userspace tools and version 2.12 of LXD. These are the default versions available in the Ubuntu Zesty Zapus (17.04) release, ...

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