Installing LXC/LXD

This lab will allow you to practice installing LXC/LXD in a cloud server environment. You will pull down the latest Alpine image and create a container from it to test your configuration.

**Note: Use Alpine 3.14 for the lab.**

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Install the LXD Package

Verify which Linux distribution your server is running.
```
cat /etc/issue
```
Install lxd and lxd-client.
```
sudo apt-get install lxd lxd-client 
```

Initialize LXD

Initialize LXD.
```
sudo lxd init
```

Create Your First Container

Create a container using Alpine 3.8 named my-alpine.
```
sudo lxc launch images:alpine/3.14 my-alpine
```

List the Containers

List your containers.
```
sudo lxc list
```

Connect to a Container

Execute an ash shell in your my-alpine container.
```
sudo lxc exec my-alpine -- /bin/ash
```
Create a file named hello.txt.
```
echo hello world > hello.txt
```

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