pct create — Create LXC containers in Proxmox. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pct.1.html#cli

Create a container from a template with 4GB size, give it 512MiB of memory and unlimited access to CPU

pct {{[cr|create]}} {{100}} {{local:vztmpl/distro-name.tar.zst}} --rootfs {{local-lvm}}:4

Create a container from a template and give it a specific memory limit in megabytes

pct {{[cr|create]}} {{100}} {{local:vztmpl/distro-name.tar.zst}} --rootfs {{local-lvm}}:{{4}} --memory {{8192}}

Create a container from a template and give it a hostname and a password

pct {{[cr|create]}} {{100}} {{local:vztmpl/distro-name.tar.zst}} --rootfs {{local-lvm}}:{{4}} --hostname {{hostname}} --password {{password}}

Create a container from a template and give it network access

pct {{[cr|create]}} {{100}} {{local:vztmpl/distro-name.tar.zst}} --rootfs {{local-lvm}}:{{4}} --net0 name={{eth0}},bridge={{vmbr0}},ip={{dhcp|manual|10.0.0.1/24}} --features nesting=1

Start a container immediately after creation

pct {{[cr|create]}} {{100}} {{local:vztmpl/distro-name.tar.zst}} --rootfs {{local-lvm}}:{{4}} --start