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Introduction

Intro to go here explaining LXD versus LXC and why you want to use it.

Setup 

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Images

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Cached Images

List images currently installed and there should be none to start,

lxc image list

Image Servers

LXD has 3 image server lists by default,

Image Server LIstPurposeComment
ubuntu:Ubuntu stable images.We'll be working with this one.
ubuntu-daily:

images:All Linux distributions.For example you can load a RedHat Linux alternative distrobution.

Pulling Image Server Lists

Let's look at the ubuntu: list,

lxc image list ubuntu: | less
+--------------------+--------------+--------+-------------------------------------------------+---------+----------+-------------------------------+
|       ALIAS        | FINGERPRINT  | PUBLIC |                   DESCRIPTION                   |  ARCH   |   SIZE   |          UPLOAD DATE          |
+--------------------+--------------+--------+-------------------------------------------------+---------+----------+-------------------------------+
| p (5 more)         | 6041c5e200b6 | yes    | ubuntu 12.04 LTS amd64 (release) (20161205)     | x86_64  | 156.47MB | Dec 5, 2016 at 12:00am (UTC)  |
+--------------------+--------------+--------+-------------------------------------------------+---------+----------+-------------------------------+
| p/armhf (2 more)   | c19b1fff3336 | yes    | ubuntu 12.04 LTS armhf (release) (20161205)     | armv7l  | 135.19MB | Dec 5, 2016 at 12:00am (UTC)  |
+--------------------+--------------+--------+-------------------------------------------------+---------+----------+-------------------------------+
| p/i386 (2 more)    | ce5c6821eebb | yes    | ubuntu 12.04 LTS i386 (release) (20161205)      | i686    | 139.28MB | Dec 5, 2016 at 12:00am (UTC)  |
+--------------------+--------------+--------+-------------------------------------------------+---------+----------+-------------------------------+
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The output table from list is not very clear. I don't understand what to reference to use the "launch" comment. Will put explanation here once figured out.



References

Gives more details on initializing lxd - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/16/lxd-2-0-installing-and-configuring-lxd-212/

Official Ubuntu documentation - https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/getting-started-cli/

Try Online Interactive Tutorial - https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it/

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