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LXC error the remote doesn’t exist

Did you know that remotes are a concept in the LXD command line client? It refers to different LXD servers or clusters. In other words, a remote can be described as a name pointing to a particular LXD server’s URL as well as the credentials we need to log in and authenticate the server.

Furthermore, LXD has four types of remotes.

According to our experts. We can find the global configuration file at either /etc/lxd/config.yml, or /var/snap/lxd/common/global-conf/, or in LXD_GLOBAL_CONF if defined.

We can manually edit the configuration file to add global remotes. The remote’s certificates are stored within the servercerts directory and have to match the remote name.

The LXC error the remote doesn’t exist often looks like this :

lxc list
Error: The remote “” doesn’t exist

Or

lxc launch ubuntu-minimal:bionic
Error: The remote “” doesn’t exist

According to our experts, we can resolve this error by using the following commands to check the remotes and cluster members:

lxc remote list
lxc cluster list

Additionally, in LXD a remote is a distinct LXD deployment. In other words, we have to use a different remote in case we are copying to another cluster. In fact, our experts recommend using target when we are dealing with internal cluster placement.
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Conclusion

In conclusion, our Support Techs introduced us to the LXC error – The remote doesn’t exist and demonstrated how to resolve the error.