Even though I stopped using Proxmox on my dedicated servers, there were still some stateful containers that I needed to host that couldn't be hosted via Docker, such as "VPSes" that I give out to my friends for them to host their own stuff.

Enter LXD: A virtual machine and system containers manager developed by Canonical. LXD is included in all Ubuntu Server 20.04 (and newer versions), and can be easily set up by using the lxd init command. Just like how Proxmox can manage LXC containers, LXD can also manage LXC containers. Despite their similar names, LXD is not a "successor" to LXC; rather, it is a management tool for LXC containers. They do know that this is very confusing.

Keep in mind that LXD does not provide a GUI like Proxmox. If you prefer managing your containers through a GUI, you may find LXD less appealing. But for me? I rarely used Proxmox's GUI anyway and always managed my containers via the terminal.

Peter Shaw has already written an excellent tutorial on this topic, and his tutorial rocks! But I wanted to write my own tutorial with my own findings and discoveries, such as how to fix network issues after migrating the container, since that was left out from his tutorial because "it is a little beyond the scope of this article, that’s a topic for another post."

The source server is running Proxmox 7.1-12, the target server is running Ubuntu Server 22.04. The LXC container we plan to migrate is running Ubuntu 22.04.

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...if you aren't a data center selling VPSes for your clients, or if your workload isn't tailored for VMs.

Everyone uses Docker nowadays, but Proxmox doesn't natively support Docker. But you do have three different solutions on how to run Docker in it.

• Installing a Linux OS in a VM and running Docker in it. This is the recommended solution by Proxmox.
• Running Docker in a LXC container. This is not recommended, but it does work. However, if you are using ZFS, you need to install fuse-overlayfs in the container, and some people have reported that this solution can cause the Proxmox host to lock up due to deadlocks.
• Running Docker on the Proxmox host itself. This is super not recommended since you should keep the hypervisor layer "clean".

I always thought that this was a super wtf move, "why wouldn't they support Docker? Everyone uses it nowadays!"

And recently, after using Proxmox since 2017... I understood why.

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