Where can I find the biggest LXC container repository?

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I can’t seem to find any LXC containers for most apps ?

Specificatlly I’m looking for a clipbucket, mediagoblin, kaltura, YouPHPTube, piped, cloudtube, pumukit, mediadrop, shareavideo to try them all out and find which one I should use for my usage

I did find one repository from 2018, but it’s been deleted

https://github.com/bmullan/ciab-lxd-image-repository

was from A Public LXD Image Repository

Is there not one “big repository” ? Maybe there’s one but it’s paywalled ? (maybe the proxmox paid repo ?) What is the biggest repo by a LXC sponsor maybe ?

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LXC and LXD are meant to be used with system-containers, not application containers.
system-containers are to be treated like VMs, they just work differently under the hood.

That means you can simply launch a container using your favorite OS(e.g. Ubuntu) and install all the software that you want using the usual methods(like the distros package manager).

Reference: https://linuxcontainers.org/

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Our focus is providing containers and virtual machines that run full Linux systems. While VMs supply a complete environment, system containers offer an environment as close as possible to the one you’d get from a VM, but without the overhead that comes with running a separate kernel and simulating all the hardware.

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The system images available are here:

https://images.linuxcontainers.org/

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Ok thanks for the replies

So suppose I want to build a mail server with LXC.

I would get a “blank” LXC container like “almalinux 9 amd64”

Do the installation and setup of the 20 or so components that are needed for a mail server.

Then, what do you do with that completed container ?

I presume images.linuxcontainers.org is not the place to post it ?

Is there really no repository ? Everyone who uses LXC, needs to build a entire mail server from scratch every time ?

This seems very inefficient to me !

I understand that LXC is more of a system container than an application container. But what is the purpose of a system with no applications ?

Is LXC just supposed to run docker on top when you want to put an application in it ?

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You cannot post to http://images.linuxcontainers.org/ these are images provided by the LXD team.

However each LXD server can act as a public image repository, so if you do create custom images you can lxc publish them using your own LXD server.

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Hi!

You can create your LXD repository on your server

Here is a link to a blog that shows how to publish LXD images (https://ubuntu.com/blog/publishing-lxd-images)

Or you can use this solution, but I never tested it (https://github.com/Avature/lxd-image-server)

Regards.

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I think the user was looking for something like Turnkey Linux, which is a prominent feature of Proxmox’s LXC implementation, and was expecting the same on LXD.

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