Advanced Guide for LXD

[toby63]

We added an advanced guide on the linuxcontainers.org website: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/advanced-guide/

Below you find a Todo-list. You can help by:

• creating a pull request to add content or
• adding a comment with ideas for changes or further content.

You find the source-file of the advanced guide here: https://github.com/lxc/linuxcontainers.org/blob/master/content/lxd/advanced-guide.md

Todo-List: Improvements:

• [ ] add links to manpages (once #471 is implemented)

Content:

• [ ] Instance management - Part 2
  • might describe details like snapshots etc.
• [ ] Server configuration (partly added)
  • recent security recommendations
  • custom user mappings: https://ubuntu.com/blog/custom-user-mappings-in-lxd-containers
• [ ] Clustering, a link to the documentation could be enough: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/docs/master/clustering
• [ ] Networks
• [ ] Storages
• [ ] Devices
• [ ] GUI in containers (see e.g.: LXD Forum - Overview GUI in containers
• [ ] GUI in virtual machines (see e.g.: LXD Forum - GUI in VM's)
• [ ] LXD-p2c (Create containers from existing systems (e.g. servers, virtual machines etc.)); see also: forum - howto use lxd p2c and forum - question about lxd p2c (was also requested in #340)
• [ ] More Content for Tips & Tricks (first added in #437)
• [ ] Backup and Emergency guide (we could maybe just link to https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/backup.md)
• [ ] Guide for setting Limits (for example kernel and CPU limits)

Done:

• [x] Configuration of instances (lxc launch, profiles) (added in #434) Note: includes only a description on how to apply options, so no description of the options themself
• [x] Cloud-init (added in #435)
• [x] Remote Servers (see also #431) (added in #435)
• [x] Images - part 2 (build images) (added in #437)
• [x] Command Aliases (added in #437)
• [x] Further Links (added in #434)

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Sorted out: Technical:

• [blocked] other style for tables (reduced width, vertical borders) (see: #420) [H]

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Original Post: We (the LXD-community, including the developers) could create an additional "Advanced Guide" that we link to in "Getting started", that could include topics like:

• networks
• storage pools
• devices
• cloud-init
• Clustering etc.

Advantages:

• This could be a good introduction to advanced topics for new users.
• It could also help to seperate in-depth-topics from the Getting Started-doc.
• The regular documentation could be kept technical and rather short-summarized, while an advanced guide could formulate things in more detail.