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LXD documentation
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  • LXD
  • Getting started
    • Requirements
    • Install LXD
    • Initialize LXD
    • Frequently asked
    • Contributing
    • Support
  • Security
    • About security
    • Remote API authentication
    • Expose LXD to the network
  • Instances
    • About instances
    • Create instances
    • Manage instances
    • Configure instances
    • Create snapshots
    • Use profiles
    • Run commands
    • Access the console
    • Access files
    • Instance configuration
      • Instance properties
      • Instance options
      • Devices
        • Standard devices
        • Type: none
        • Type: nic
        • Type: disk
        • Type: unix-char
        • Type: unix-block
        • Type: usb
        • Type: gpu
        • Type: infiniband
        • Type: proxy
        • Type: unix-hotplug
        • Type: tpm
        • Type: pci
      • Units for storage and network limits
  • Images
    • Architectures
    • Cloud-init
    • Handling
  • Storage
    • About storage
    • Manage pools
    • Create an instance in a pool
    • Manage volumes
    • Move or copy a volume
    • Back up a volume
    • Manage buckets
    • Storage drivers
      • Directory - dir
      • Btrfs - btrfs
      • LVM - lvm
      • ZFS - zfs
      • Ceph RBD - ceph
      • CephFS - cephfs
      • Ceph Object - cephobject
  • Networking
    • About networking
    • Create and configure a network
    • Configure network ACLs
    • Configure network forwards
    • Configure network zones
    • Configure LXD as BGP server
    • Bridge network
      • Integrate with resolved
      • Configure your firewall
    • OVN network
      • Set up OVN
      • Create routing relationships
      • Configure network load balancers
    • External networks
      • Macvlan network
      • SR-IOV network
      • Physical network
  • Clustering
    • About clustering
    • Form a cluster
    • Manage a cluster
    • Recover a cluster
    • Manage instances
    • Configure storage
    • Configure networks
    • Set up cluster groups
    • Cluster member configuration
  • Manage LXD
    • Server configuration
    • Projects
    • Remotes
    • Performance tuning
      • Benchmark performance
      • Increase bandwidth
      • Server settings
    • Backups
    • Migration
      • Move instances
      • Import existing machines
      • Migrate from LXC
  • REST API
    • Main API documentation
    • Main API specification
    • Main API extensions
    • Instance API documentation
    • Events API documentation
    • Metrics API documentation
  • Internals & debugging
    • Container environment
    • Daemon behavior
    • Database
    • Debugging
    • Environment variables
    • System call interception
    • User namespace setup
  • External resources
    • Project repository
    • Image server
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Instances#

  • About instances
  • Create instances
  • Manage instances
  • Configure instances
  • Create snapshots
  • Use profiles
  • Run commands
  • Access the console
  • Access files
  • Instance configuration
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