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lxc profile — Manage profiles for LXD containers. More information: <https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/latest/r

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Problem

How to use the lxc profile command: Manage profiles for LXD containers. More information: <https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/latest/reference/manpages/lxc/profile/>.

Solution

lxc profile — Manage profiles for LXD containers. More information: <https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/latest/reference/manpages/lxc/profile/>.

List all available profiles:

lxc profile list

Show the configuration of a specific profile:

lxc profile show {{profile_name}}

Edit a specific profile in the default editor:

lxc profile edit {{profile_name}}

Edit a specific profile importing the configuration values from a file:

lxc < {{config.yaml}} profile edit {{profile_name}}

Launch a new container with specific profiles:

lxc launch {{container_image}} {{container_name}} {{[-p|--profile]}} {{profile1}} {{[-p|--profile]}} {{profile2}}

Change the profiles of a running container:

lxc profile assign {{container_name}} {{profile1,profile2}}

Code Snippets

List all available profiles

lxc profile list

Show the configuration of a specific profile

lxc profile show {{profile_name}}

Edit a specific profile in the default editor

lxc profile edit {{profile_name}}

Edit a specific profile importing the configuration values from a file

lxc < {{config.yaml}} profile edit {{profile_name}}

Launch a new container with specific profiles

lxc launch {{container_image}} {{container_name}} {{[-p|--profile]}} {{profile1}} {{[-p|--profile]}} {{profile2}}

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tldr-pages: linux/lxc profile

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