openstack-ansible/doc/source/reference/commands/reference.rst

Command Line Reference

Linux Container commands

The following are some useful commands to manage LXC:

• List containers and summary information such as operational state and network configuration:

  # lxc-ls --fancy

• Show container details including operational state, resource utilization, and veth pairs:

  # lxc-info --name container_name

• Start a container:

  # lxc-start --name container_name

• Attach to a container:

  # lxc-attach --name container_name

• Stop a container:

  # lxc-stop --name container_name