[lxc-users] How to auto-start LXC containers with LXD

[Ozan Hazer]

Yeah, I wish I realized that before setting up everything :\
I agree with the central configuration thing, it reduces the portability
too at first glance. However not sure if it should be considered as a
deficiency...
lxd is designed this way and instead of manually doing things (copying
etc.) it provides tools for it which attracted me in the first place. I can
do what lxd does with lxc-* commands already but lxd is much easier to use
and gives the feeling of vagrant and docker.
There is lxc copy and move and I bet (or hope?) there will be some export
or backup command in the future... The configurations are kept in sqlite
(/var/lib/lxd/lxd.db) so extracting the config should not be that hard
(hope again :) )

The problem that hit me is lxd is apparently is not mature enough and the
announcement that ubuntu made and advertised misleaded me since I'm a
developer and not following server technologies closely.

For the auto-startup issue I ended up with writing a systemd job for
startup and I guess I'll need smt. else for a clean shutdown too... I have
atlassian products (jira & stash) running inside the container and they are
not starting for some reason... Still investigating...



> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex.ru>
> To: Serge Hallyn <lxc-users at lists.linuxcontainers.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 19:24:52 +0300
> Subject: Re: [lxc-users] How to auto-start LXC containers with LXD
> Greetings, Serge Hallyn!
> >> How do I configure LXC containers so that it'll start automatically in
> >> Ubuntu 15.04 and LXD?
> >> Ubuntu documentation states that the containers with the configuration
> >> lxc.start.auto=1 will be started on boot however I couldn't find the
> config
> >> file for the container.
> > For default privileged containers the config file is
> > /var/lib/lxc/$containername/config
> He did meantion LXD explicitly.
> There's no "config" in LXD containers. Which I find a certain deficiency of
> the design. If I can't get a backup of entire container together with
> config,
> it has no use for me.
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Andrey Repin
> Tuesday, May 5, 2015 19:23:34
> Sorry for my terrible english...


M.Ozan Hazer
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