lxd-delete-all.py

Important: This script can mess up your system and screw up everytying you did with LXD. Use at your own risk!

About

The Python script in this repo can delete all LXD profiles, containers, networks, and images on a machine. It is basically an extension of Ilhaan Rasheed's Script to delete containers and images. And this extension basically is, that everything can be deleted for all projects.

Resetting lxd entirely (e.g. using --delete-all is the equivalent to running the following command for each container for each project:

lxc --project=<project_name> stop <container_name>  # for all running containers
lxc --project=<project_name> delete <container_name> 
lxc --project=<project_name> image delete <image_fingerprint>
lxc --project=<project_name> profile delete <profile_name>
lxc --project=<project_name> network delete <network_name> # for all lxd managed networks

This script has been tested on Ubuntu 22.10 with a snap installed LXD version of 5.7.

Requirements

• Python3
• Ability to run lxc without sudo

Instructions

1. Clone this repo and cd into the cloned directory.
2. Make sure you have execute permissions on lxd_reset_all.py. You can set this for the current user by running: chmod u+x lxd_reset_all.py
3. View available options: ./lxd_reset_all.py --help
4. Reset everything: ./lxd_reset_all.py --reset-all
5. Delete containers: ./lxd_reset_all.py -c
6. Delete images: ./lxd_reset_all.py -i
7. Delete profiles: ./lxd_reset_all.py -p
8. Delete networks: ./lxd_reset_all.py -n
9. Exclude a project: ./lxd_reset_all.py --reset-all -e myproject
   • Exclude more projects: ./lxd_reset_all.py -c -e myproject1 myproject2

Alternatively, you can run this script without cloning the repo using curl. For example, the following command runs the script and displays it's help message:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tmerten/lxd-delete-all/master/lxd_delete_all.py | python3 - -h