LXD.INIT(1)

💖 lxd init — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, welcome to lxd.init(1) — yes it's from the LXD - Container server manual, and yes it's literally the glow-up ritual for your LXD daemon. Sit down, hydrate, let's configure a container server together 🧚✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

lxd-init — Configure the LXD daemon

like. that's the whole job. you're setting up the daemon. iconic behavior honestly 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lxd init [flags]

that's it. that's the whole summoning spell. flags go brrr 🦋

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Description: Configure the LXD daemon.

lowkey the most self-explanatory description ever written but we respect it. this is the command you run to set up your LXD daemon — could be interactive (default vibe, it asks you stuff), could be fully automatic (no thoughts head empty mode), could be preseeded from a YAML config, or could just dump the YAML at you. pick your fighter 💖

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --auto[=false] — Automatic (non-interactive) mode. it just goes. no questions, no small talk, main character energy ✨
• --dump[=false] — Dump YAML config to stdout. it shows you the config in YAML instead of doing anything with it 🫶
• --minimal[=false] — Minimal configuration (non-interactive). the bare minimum, the "I woke up and chose simplicity" setting 🌸
• --network-address="" — Address to bind LXD to (default: none)``
• --network-port=-1 — Port to bind LXD to (default: 8443)``
• --preseed[=false] — Pre-seed mode, expects YAML config from stdin. feed it YAML through stdin and it eats 💀
• --storage-backend="" — Storage backend to use (btrfs, dir, lvm or zfs, default: dir)``
• --storage-create-device="" — Setup device based storage using DEVICE``
• --storage-create-loop=-1 — Setup loop based storage with SIZE in GiB``
• --storage-pool="" — Storage pool to use or create``
• --trust-password="" — Password required to add new clients``

ngl the storage ones are the ones people always get confused about, so read them twice bestie, no cap 🔥

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🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

these are the ones the parent command was like "here, take these too" — they're not lxd init's own but they show up anyway 💜

• -d, --debug[=false] — Show all debug messages. the receipts. every single one 🙈
• -h, --help[=false] — Print help
• --logfile="" — Path to the log file``
• --syslog[=false] — Log to syslog
• --trace=[] — Log tracing targets``
• -v, --verbose[=false] — Show all information messages. it's giving chatty ✨
• --version[=false] — Print version number

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🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

the canonical examples, verbatim, do not touch, they're perfect:

  init --minimal
  init --auto [--network-address=IP] [--network-port=8443] [--storage-backend=dir]
              [--storage-create-device=DEVICE] [--storage-create-loop=SIZE]
              [--storage-pool=POOL] [--trust-password=PASSWORD]
  init --preseed
  init --dump

so you got: the minimal girlie route, the full auto route with all the bracket options stacked like a lil outfit, the preseed route (stdin YAML, very demure), and the dump route (just show me the YAML, I'm nosy) 👑

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• lxd(1)

go read that one too, it's the parent, it's giving family reunion 🌸

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

• 27-Jun-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra

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fr fr: this whole page was Auto generated by spf13/cobra — that's the source/version vibe and the Jun 2026 date stamp, and the manual itself is the LXD - Container server(1) one. so like. shoutout to cobra for writing my homework for me 💀✨

that's the whole page bestie, go configure ur daemon, u got this 💖🫶🎀