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4. LXC and LXD Resources

Senthil Kumaran S.

(1)Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

This chapter discusses the various resources available to create LXC and LXD containers. It explains the internal working of some LXC templates and LXD images with the help of illustrations. LXC installation provides templates that are used to create the containers with various operating system distributions. Each template is a shell script that downloads or bootstraps a minimal system with the basic contents required for container creation using the lxc-create command.

Default LXC Templates

The lxc-create command takes the template as a parameter using the -t option. ...

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