Aaron - you might want to look at some of the Bitnami applications

[bmullan]

I've found that many/most of the Bitnami applications work fine in LXD containers.

https://bitnami.com/stacks/cloud

Click on the Bitnami application you are interested in.

Under DEPLOYMENT OFFERING... under ON MY COMPUTER

Click on the WIN/MAC/LINUX tab

And you will see on the far right a Button to download the Bitnami Installer for that app.

Once it has downloaded to your PC, copy it to the LXD container you made for it.

Create an LXD container for that Application

lxc exec <container_name> bash

chmod +x app_installer_name
then
execute app_installer_name

The Bitnami installer then does its job installing the applicaiton for you.

You may have to still open a port etc but from your Host you should be able to point your browser to what the Bitnami tells you and you then should be able to use that application.

Obviously, to reach those from the Internet you'd have to use LXD's Device Proxy command to redirect traffic to your Host into the Container but that's easy enough to do.

Just a thought but wanted to tell you about Bitnami in case you weren't aware of it.

[X1Aaron]

Thanks, I'll have to think about that :)

[19wolf]

This is a good idea, I think we should definitely consider this

[jgbrwn]

Take a look at Turnkey-LXC as well. You might find some inspiration there. I'm not sure if they do the automagic SSL/LE thing though..

https://www.turnkeylinux.org/lxc

[bmullan]

Just fyi but in the past I had more trouble getting the TurnkeyLinux apps to install in LXD containers than bitnami's apps.