LXC.CONFIG.EDIT(1)

💅 lxc-config-edit — the "edit your whole config in YAML" glow-up

okay so real talk, bestie: this page is from LXD - Command line client(1) and it's about that one command that drops you into a YAML editor for an instance or the server itself. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

lxc-config-edit — Edit instance or server configurations as YAML 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lxc config edit [:][[/]] [flags]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Straight from the source, no cap:

Edit instance or server configurations as YAML ✨

Like, you get to poke at the actual YAML. That's the whole vibe. Main character energy for your config file 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --target="" — Cluster member name 💅 (yep, that's the whole description — it points at which cluster member you're talking to)

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🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

these ones you get for free from the parent command, iykyk:

• --debug[=false] — Show all the debug messages 🔥 (default: false)
• --force-local[=false] — Force using the local unix socket 💀 (default: false)
• -h, --help[=false] — Print help 🫶 (default: false)
• --project="" — Override the source project ⭐
• -q, --quiet[=false] — Don't show progress information 🙈 (default: false)
• --sub-commands[=false] — Use with help or --help to view sub-commands 👑 (default: false)
• -v, --verbose[=false] — Show all information messages 💖 (default: false)
• --version[=false] — Print version number 🌸 (default: false)

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🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

  lxc config edit <instance> < instance.yaml
      Update the instance configuration from config.yaml.

literally feed it a YAML file on stdin and watch the instance config update itself ✨ ate, no crumbs.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• lxc-config(1) — go say hi to the parent 👋

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🧚 HISTORY 🧚

22-Aug-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra 💫

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ngl, this whole page was auto generated by spf13/cobra, so if anything looks a lil quirky, that's why 😭

okay bye bestie, go edit some YAML 🍓✨ — LXD - Command line client(1), Aug 2026, auto generated by spf13/cobra 💅🫶