HOWTO: Curl the LXD unix.socket file.

LXC-LXD-2.x-curl-API.md

It is possible to use curl to query the LXD unix.socket directly:

curl --unix-socket /var/lib/lxd/unix.socket http:/1.0/containers | jq .

Example output:

{
  "type": "sync",
  "status": "Success",
  "status_code": 200,
  "operation": "",
  "error_code": 0,
  "error": "",
  "metadata": [
    "/1.0/containers/base",
    "/1.0/containers/jay-test-99",
    "/1.0/containers/jays-awesome-container-2"
  ]
}

https://medium.com/@awinashgoswami/lxd-rest-api-b8eb4c72e001

https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/howto/images_remote/
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/failed-detecting-root-disk-device/9597/5

lxd init --minimal

I know that this is an old question, but for someone ending up here while searching for how to copy files between host and container, this might help.

To pull a file 'my-file' from the container 'container-name' to the current folder, use:

lxc file pull container-name/any-path/my-file .
To push 'my-file', use:

lxc file push my-file container-name/any-path/
To push a folder 'my-dir' recursive, use:

lxc file push -r my-dir container-name/any-path/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31228191/how-do-i-export-a-lxc-container