Creating an Arch Linux LXC lovelace image from scratch

Instructions assume you're on Ubuntu 18.10. We currently do this on the Discourse droplet.

• lxd init
• lxc launch images:archlinux tmp-container
• lxc exec tmp-container -- /bin/bash
• pacman -S python python-pip
• pip install numpy scipy
• pacman -S nodejs
• pacman -S julia
• julia -e "using Pkg; Pkg.add("PyCall");"
• pip install julia
• Make sure that python -c "import julia; julia.Julia()" works.
• lxc publish tmp-container --alias lovelace-image
• lxc image edit lovelace-image
  • Add description: Project Lovelace Image (20190105) under Properties
• lxc image export lovelace-image lovelace-image-20190105
• scp lovelace-image-20190105.tar.gz [email protected]:/root/
• ssh [email protected]
• lxc image import /root/lovelace-image-20190105.tar.gz
• lxc image alias delete lovelace-container
• lxc image list
• lxc image alias create lovelace-image <new-image-fingerprint>
• lxc image delete <old-image-fingerprint>
• lxc launch lovelace-image tmp-container
• lxc exec tmp-container -- /bin/bash
• python3 --version
• node --version
• julia --version
• python -c 'import numpy'
• python -c "import julia; julia.Julia()"
• ping google.com