Ahh, OK. Thanks for clarifying :-) I guess I need to work out the Pros/Cons of static vs dhcp and go from there.
Cheers, Matt On 29 Aug 2016 03:28, "Serge E. Hallyn" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 09:59:42AM +0100, Matt Green wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > I've currently got a 14.04 server running LXC, and I'm planning to use > the > > upgrade to 16.04 as an excuse to switch to LXD. > > > > In the interim I thought I'd upgrade my proxy server and move it's > services > > to LXD so I'm not messing with my pre-existing services. > > > > Anyway... > > > > I have a 16.04 server with LXD installed, I've set it up to bridge to my > > network interface (so the server isn't doing NAT, DHCP, etc.) and I've > > installed my first container with "lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 proxy". > > > > Now I want to give that container a static IP address. > > In LXC on 14.04 I've just edited /etc/network/interfaces manually. > > In LXD on 16.04 I see that there's a file > > called /etc/network/interfaces.d/50-cloud-init.cfg which is controlling > the > > interface config and apparently I shouldn't edit it manually. > > > > According to https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/1168 LXD doesn't have > > anything to do with the host address config, but then what's this > > cloud-init thing? > > > > I'm not sure what to do now. Should I bypass cloud-init and configure my > > interface manually? Or is there a better way I should be doing this? > > If you use the linuxcontainers.org images instead of the ubuntu: images, > you shouldn't have cloud-init (iirc). You can remove it by hand. It's > purpose is to support automated post-install customizations in a cloud > environment. > > Now, in general the recommended way to get a 'static' ip address would be > to configure the dhcp server to hand the desired address to the container, > but of course /etc/network/interfaces should still work (if you drop > cloud-init) > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
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