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.