It can be used to easily allow visitors on a website to spawn a container, get a shell inside it and play around with some piece of software for a limited amount of time.
Supported features:
Get service status (available features, availability, addresses, ...)
Read and validate terms of service
Spawn a demo container
Get info on running container
Access container console
Send feedback on demo experience
To install:
sudo snap install lxd
sudo lxd init
sudo snap install lxd-demo-server
sudo snap connect lxd-demo-server:lxd lxd:lxd
Details for LXD demo server
License
Apache-2.0
Last updated
6 June 2019 - latest/stable
6 June 2019 - latest/edge
This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.
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It does not guarantee the Snap is an official upload
from the upstream project.
Enable snaps on Pop!_OS and install LXD demo server
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Enable snapd
Snap can be installed on Pop!_OS from the command line. Open Terminal from the Applications launcher and type the following:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
Install LXD demo server
To install LXD demo server, simply use the following command: