Linux Academy - LXC/LXD Deep Dive

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https://linuxacademy.com/linux/training/course/name/lxc-containers-essentials?utm_source=social&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=LXCLXDCourse

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Looks good.

Can someone try this and give a testimontial?

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Simos

I signed up for the 7 day free trial (its something like $240/yr otherwise).

I have gone thru the 1st 3 sections and so far I like it.

Its obvious the presenter had/has used LXD quite a bit from his topic discussions.

Actually, I already learned a couple things…

Canonical & Oracle sponsor LXD/LXC

lxc file edit cn-name/path-to-file. from the host uses you host default editor (me its nano) to…

Copy the target file in the container to the host in your editor.
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When you save LXD moves the copy back to the container & replaces the orig file…

I don’t want those 2 points to go out of context… so far the course & quizes are doing a great job. I was just pointing out that I imagine anyone might get valuable tidbits out of this.

I’m really looking forward to the more advanced topics & quizes.

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NOTE - The following is a “shortened” list of the LinuxAcademy LXD/LXC course syllabus and I have included a few notes from my experience taking the course. Sorry for the delay but I had a wedding to go to this past week.

Here is the Linux Academy LXD Course

There is also a short Youtube discussion about the Linux Academy LXD course as well.

Partial Syllabus listing w/some notes

LXC/LXD Installation & Configuration - covered all the basics

LXC/LXD Images - covered both local & remote LXD image server setup & use, building your own container tarball, import/export of images

LXC/LXD Persistent Storage - covered things like setting up ZFS with LXD & mounting external block device in a container, snapshots etc

LXC/LXD Networking - covered & demonstrated all the basics & related commands.

LXC/LXD Networking with Multi-Hosts sharing a discreet Layer-2 Network and GRE tunnels

Container Use Cases with LXC/LXD:

  • Development of a LXD Web Cluster
  • Microservices - using multiple LXD containers with nginx & php scripts
  • Database Replication Testing - using multiple LXD containers creating the Galera database cluster
  • Automatic Container Backup Testing

Each section (including others not listed above), contained a at least 1 “challenge lab” and a Quiz.

I found all of them pretty well done and covered a lot of ground on LXD and its use.

The LXD networking sections were pretty thorough and the section covering mult-host w/GRE tunnels was well done.

I really liked the use-case discussion & sections on web cluster, microservices, database replication and Automatic backups. He gave a good background & presentation/demo of each which I am sure many LXD users would find interesting.

All in all this was well done and if nothing else its worth taking advantage of the Linux Academy’s 7 day free trial to go through some of this course. I decided to sign up for 1 yr as I found there were other courses that I figured I could use in other areas as well ?

Brian

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Sounds great, thanks for the feedback!

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Cool. That sounds good!