Say I create a container in my laptop with the desired combination of software and configurations.
Can I use it somehow to launch an EC2 instance in AWS, instead of using an AMI?
Or, can I create an AMI from an LXC?
LXD container’s don’t contain a kernel (they share the host’s) so its unlikely they would work as a VM AMI.
I suppose it would potentially be possible to convert a LXD VM image to an AMI, but I have no idea how one would do that.
You could run LXD on an AWS instance and then use lxc export and lxc import to copy a container from your laptop to the AWS instance.
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It is not a direct conversion but using packer is a good way to keep an LXC container and an AWS AMI configuration synced.
You will need to create scripts that set up your LXC, but if you can find a similar base image for the AMI, and if your scripts are portable, you can keep them in sync with packer.
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