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LXD and VXLAN

I have a lot of servers all over the place, and it's not uncommon that I need to connect them together in some way. For simple setups WireGuard is working fantastically well but I usually need layer 2 networks. For that I still use tinc, another software I can recommend. Before WireGuard was a thing, tinc was easily my default choice.

Run Home Assistant OS inside LXD

My Home Assistant installation running on a rpi3b+ finally failed. More precisely, the SD card failed. No big surprise, I was expecting this and had planned a replacement for some time but I never got to in in time. The good this, I had a recent backup so it's all good! Backup people!

Import a qcow2 image to LXD

I recently learned how to make my own LXD VM image based on Home Assistant's QCOW2 VM images. This blog post is a short write-up how to do that! This is of course useful for other qcow2 images as well.