pct

Manage LXC containers in Proxmox. More information: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pct.1.html.

• List all containers:

pct list

• Start/Stop/Reboot a specific container:

pct start|stop|reboot 100

• Access a specific container's shell:

pct enter 100

• Create a container from template:

pct create 100 /var/lib/vz/template/cache/distro-name.tar.zst -hostname hostname -password password --rootfs local-lvm --on-boot

• Resize the container's disk to 20G:

pct resize 100 rootfs|mpX 20G

• Show the configuration of a container, specifying its ID:

pct config 100

• Snapshot a specific container with description:

pct snapshot 100 my-snapshot --description My snapshot description

• Destroy a container and remove all related resources:

pct destroy 100 --purge