# Beta - LXD image for Nextcloud 11 **URL:** \ **Category:** šŸ“¦ Appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP, AIO)\ **Created:** [March 29, 2017, 8:18am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782 "2017-03-29T08:18:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/jasonbayton/32/297_2.png) [@JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/JasonBayton)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 8:18am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/1 "2017-03-29T08:18:23Z")
Hi folks, Iā€™ve just published a beta of my first Nextcloud 11-preinstalled LXD container. Hereā€™s how itā€™s configured: - HTTP (Letā€™s Encrypt certbot is present, but hasnā€™t been run) - Redis, APCu caching enabled - Pretty links enabled - Data directory one level up from Nextcloud (and therefore webroot) - Getting started file is situated in `/media/nc/start.md` containing default passwords to be changed and some instructions. The reason itā€™s a beta is two-fold: 1. Iā€™ve tested deployment to 3 LXD hosts, each with their own IP ranges configured and it deploys fine, but it needs more testing. 2. I canā€™t script in bash at the moment, so passwords have to be manually changed until I find a solution (or someone helps :)) To deploy the container on your host, add my public image server to your environment: `lxc remote add nextcloud demo.nextcloud.bayton.org --public` (Where nextcloud is the name you give the remote server) Then launch: `lxc launch nextcloud:nextcloud11 myNCcontainer` (Where myNCcontainer is the name you give the local container) Give it a try, let me know what you think. If you can work with me to provide scripts to add more user interaction and not have to ship a pre-installed NC version thatā€™d be great šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![bmullan](https://help.nextcloud.com/letter_avatar/bmullan/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@bmullan](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/bmullan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/2 "2017-04-02T22:46:40Z")
Jason When you say ā€œI canā€™t script in bash at the moment, so passwords have to be manually changedā€ ā€¦ what passwords are you referring to? brian ---
**Author:** ![JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/jasonbayton/32/297_2.png) [@JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/JasonBayton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 6:23am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/3 "2017-04-03T06:23:53Z")
Database and Nextcloud, passwords for these are located on the getting started doc in the image. ---
**Author:** ![bmullan](https://help.nextcloud.com/letter_avatar/bmullan/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@bmullan](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/bmullan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 7:01am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/4 "2017-04-03T07:01:28Z")
Jason Iā€™d posted a note about your Nextcloud LXD image on the LXD sub-reddit yesterday and someone replied already that theyā€™d just done something similar the day beforeā€¦ link I saw on redditā€¦ > **[Beta - LXD image for Nextcloud 11 by Jason Bayton ā€¢ r/LXD](https://www.reddit.com/r/LXD/comments/632to3/beta_lxd_image_for_nextcloud_11_by_jason_bayton/dfqwsxk)** > > 6 points and 3 comments so far on reddit ---
**Author:** ![JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/jasonbayton/32/297_2.png) [@JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/JasonBayton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/5 "2017-04-03T07:41:16Z")
Nice one šŸ™‚ I havenā€™t publicised it beyond the forum as yet as I donā€™t think itā€™s autonomous enough with the fixed credentials. Hopefully someone will help me script it all before long. ---
**Author:** ![jrwren](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/jrwren/32/3582_2.png) [@jrwren](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/jrwren)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/6 "2017-04-03T18:05:14Z")
Another option is to treat it like other cloud systems and not have any passwords. lxd can pass user-data on instance start, just like AWS. If your image is using cloud-init (most cloud linux does), then you pass your public key. e.g. cloud-config.yaml #cloud-config ssh-import-id: [gh:jrwren] $ lxc launch nextcloud:nextcloud11 myNCcontainer -c user.user-data="$(cat cloud-config.yaml)" ---
**Author:** ![JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/jasonbayton/32/297_2.png) [@JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/JasonBayton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/7 "2017-04-03T18:26:08Z")
There are no system/user passwords to consider here, though a cloud-init type script for the whole setup (lamp, databases, NC) would be excellent. Maybe @enoch85 can help also, since he has scripts with the VM I bet we could adapt. ---
**Author:** ![enoch85](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/enoch85/32/49403_2.png) [@enoch85](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/enoch85)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/8 "2017-04-03T19:10:41Z")
There are alot of stuff you can ā€œborrowā€ from the VM. Just check how we did. The `cat` option that @jrwren meantioned is an alternative. In the VM we generate new strong passwords with /dev/urandom and lock it into root. For user passwords itā€™s easy, just do `passwd $user` and use the `occ` command for Nextcloud. You could generate passwords here as well and put them in a file only readable by root. ---
**Author:** ![jrwren](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/jrwren/32/3582_2.png) [@jrwren](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/jrwren)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/9 "2017-04-03T21:05:20Z")
Ah! Sorry! I misunderstood which passwords were being discussed. ---
**Author:** ![JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/jasonbayton/32/297_2.png) [@JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/JasonBayton)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/10 "2017-04-06T21:26:52Z")
Temporary update on this, the server hosting the image died yesterday and given itā€™s new-ness I hadnā€™t yet added it to a backup rota. Silly me. Iā€™ll rebuild it over the coming days. ---
**Author:** ![ingobaab](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/ingobaab/32/3687_2.png) [@ingobaab](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/ingobaab)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/11 "2017-04-10T13:39:12Z")
Hello Jason, great idea! But I get Unable to connect to: [demo.nextcloud.bayton.org:8443](http://demo.nextcloud.bayton.org:8443) (or ā€˜ERR\_CONNECTION\_REFUSEDā€™) - is it my fault? Thank you for any hintā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/jasonbayton/32/297_2.png) [@JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/JasonBayton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/12 "2017-04-10T15:18:12Z")
@ingobaab it was my fault, as I mentioned in the comment above yours the server died and I had to rebuild everything from scratch. Everything should now work again. Give it a go šŸ‘ ---
**Author:** ![ingobaab](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/ingobaab/32/3687_2.png) [@ingobaab](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/ingobaab)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/13 "2017-04-10T16:35:24Z")
Hi Jason! Great I will try it. I did also some exploration and created a wordpress-hosting-container (fast caching, nginx, ready to runā€¦) Maybe we should partner šŸ™‚ - I will install a your-nextcloudā€¦ What I also did, was setting ab a ā€˜kolab-mailserverā€™ inside a container. What this containers should have, is a configuration-gui / webpanel. For my wordpress-thinky I developed suchā€¦ Did you consider a webpanel to configure your nextcloud-linuximage? Container-Management: ![](https://help.nextcloud.com/uploads/default/original/2X/6/69f5d314960ab9482935f1fccf9b62f6c82f5f3f.png) ---
**Author:** ![ingobaab](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/ingobaab/32/3687_2.png) [@ingobaab](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/ingobaab)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/14 "2017-04-10T16:36:59Z")
WordPress-Configuration: ![](https://help.nextcloud.com/uploads/default/original/2X/5/51435fd0c5671d2b45150a81fc35f547ab11c825.png) ---
**Author:** ![JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/jasonbayton/32/297_2.png) [@JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/JasonBayton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/15 "2017-04-10T16:45:32Z")
Oh wow thatā€™s nice. Do you make use of the APIs in LXD to get that up and running? Itā€™s way ahead of my skillset; I run ~20 containers at home and a further 10 on hosts around the net with different services I can move between hosts as I see fit, but itā€™s all CLI, no fancy GUIs for me šŸ™‚ That said, I took a crack at one a while back but itā€™s not progressed much since: > **[New project is coming along well... :) ##lxd Ā  ##webui Ā  ##webpanel Ā  ##api Ā ](https://plus.google.com/+JasonBaytonX/posts/iFNMKYetqzU)** > > New project is coming along well... :) ##lxd Ā  ##webui Ā  ##webpanel Ā  ##api Ā  - Jason Bayton - Google+ ---
**Author:** ![ingobaab](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/ingobaab/32/3687_2.png) [@ingobaab](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/ingobaab)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/16 "2017-04-10T16:48:48Z")
Hi Jason, I intsalled your image! great. Butā€¦ there is only apache2 running, no phpā€¦ ā˜¹ Do I have to run some script or how to proceed? Thank you for any help šŸ™‚ -Ingo - I will look at the Webpanel you mentioned, thanx ``` systemd-+-accounts-daemon-+-{gdbus} | `-{gmain} |-agetty |-apache2---5*[apache2] |-atd |-cron |-dbus-daemon |-dhclient |-mysqld---27*[{mysqld}] |-polkitd-+-{gdbus} | `-{gmain} |-redis-server---2*[{redis-server}] |-rsyslogd-+-{in:imuxsock) S 1 | `-{rs:main Q:Reg} |-snapd---7*[{snapd}] |-sshd |-systemd-journal |-systemd-logind `-systemd-udevd ``` ---
**Author:** ![JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/jasonbayton/32/297_2.png) [@JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/JasonBayton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/17 "2017-04-10T17:01:16Z")
What! I launched that image on 3 hosts and it came up perfectly each time. The install is based on my [guide](https://bayton.org/2016/07/installing-nextcloud-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts-with-redis-apcu-apache/), so PHP7 is installed with the lamp^ meta package. Edit, just launched one again, itā€™s straight up with no issue aside from the domain error mentioned in `/media/nc/start.md`: ![](https://help.nextcloud.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/dd7fc2bd0a7d657d52df6d4386a470d34be04688.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![enoch85](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/enoch85/32/49403_2.png) [@enoch85](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/enoch85)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 9:11am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/18 "2017-04-11T09:11:30Z")
Eh, just tried [https://demo.nextcloud.bayton.org:8443](https://demo.nextcloud.bayton.org:8443) and got this: `{"type":"sync","status":"Success","status_code":200,"operation":"","error_code":0,"error":"","metadata":["/1.0"]}` Thatā€™s not even the status.php, which file is that? šŸ˜ƒ Edit: OK, [https://demo.nextcloud.bayton.org](https://demo.nextcloud.bayton.org) works. ---
**Author:** ![JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/jasonbayton/32/297_2.png) [@JasonBayton](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/JasonBayton)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 9:19am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/19 "2017-04-11T09:19:48Z")
Yeah, you tried accessing LXD directly, itā€™s not a web interface šŸ™‚ The [demo.nc](http://demo.nc) URL there is temporary, Iā€™ll likely have a landing page for the actual demo servers in future. In the meantime you can access the demos [9](https://demo9.nextcloud.bayton.org/), [10](https://demo10.nextcloud.bayton.org/), [11](https://demo11.nextcloud.bayton.org/) and [12](https://demo12.nextcloud.bayton.org/). ---
**Author:** ![enoch85](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/enoch85/32/49403_2.png) [@enoch85](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/enoch85)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 10:21am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782/20 "2017-04-11T10:21:55Z")
How do you do with the sessions? Are they valid for XX minutes and then everything is reset, or is each session itā€™s own container (like the Nextcloud demo)? Hereā€™s another demo server btw: [https://demo.orestad-linux.se](https://demo.orestad-linux.se) USER: demo PASS: orestadlinux# [Next page](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/beta-lxd-image-for-nextcloud-11/10782.md?page=2)