This repository is obsolete. It is superceded by lxdops.demo.

A set of example and working configuration files for lxdops (https://github.com/melato/lxdops).

Initial setup:

• lxdops property set zfsroot # sets a global property that specifies a root zfs filesystem to use.

Create a Test project (optional):

lxdops project create -profiles test
lxc project switch test

which is equivalent to:

lxc project create -c features.images=false test
lxdops project copy-profiles -source-project default -target-project test default
lxc project switch test

Use any project name you like. The project should have its own profiles. lxdops does not create images, so the project does not need separate images.

Create a template container and a working container (alpine):

cd templates
lxdops launch alp.yaml
cd containers
lxdops launch dev.yaml

This creates:

• A stopped container called "alp", with a "copy" snapshot
• A running container called "dev" that is cloned from alp/copy
• Two zfs filesystems, "host", and "log", for each of the above containers
• A .lxdops profile for each of these containers, with several disk devices: /var/opt, /etc/opt, /opt, /home, /var/log, /usr/local/bin. /var/log is in the "log" filesystem. All other devices are in the "host" filesystem.

Rebuild a container: If you want to upgrade the os of container dev, then first upgrade or rebuild its template (not described here)

lxdops rebuild dev.yaml

Managing Configuration files:

For production use, I structure my numerous lxdops configuration files in 3 levels:

• base lxdops: this repository
• generic lxdops: mostly templates, and configuration specific to me, such as my user
• host-specific lxdops: containes a .yaml file for each container in a single host LXD system Each level includes files from the previous levels