LXD Cloud
LXD Cloud provides lightweight server management using the power of LXD and Ansible.
Features
- Automated host machine provisioning and configuration
- Automated container provisioning and configuration
- Automated host machine updates
- Automated supervised container updates
- Automated per server and container backups with hardlink rotates (drastically reduce incremental backup downtime and size)
- Automated KIOSK provisioning
- Automated Nagios integration
Quickstart
LXD Cloud is available on Ansible Galaxy Listing
Install with Ansible Galaxy
$ ansible-galaxy collection install hxtree.lxd_cloud
Ansible Installation
If you're not running Ansible already, following these instructions to install:
On Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install software-properties-common
$ sudo apt-add-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible
$ sudo apt install ansible
On RHEL and CentOS:
$ sudo yum install ansible
On Fedora:
$ sudo dnf install ansible
Next, clone LXD Cloud repo:
$ cd /etc/ansible/
$ git clone https://github.com/hxtree/LXD-Cloud
Setup listing of Groups and Hosts (reference Ansible docs):
$ vim /etc/ansible/hosts
Setup variables related to more then one host (reference Ansible docs):
$ vim /etc/ansible/group_vars
Setup variables related to a single host (reference Ansible docs):
$ /etc/ansible/host_vars
Set ansible.cfg remote tmp to avoid user permissions issues
remote_tmp = /tmp/.ansible-${USER}/tmp
Contribute
Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for information on how to contribute to LXD Cloud.