The bindings for Python provided by the LXC and libvirt APIs are a great way to programmatically create and manage LXC containers.

In this chapter, we explored both sets of Python bindings, by writing simple code snippets that implement most of the functions provided by the userspace tools. In fact, the best way to learn about those APIs is to look at the source code of the command-line tools, although they are implemented in C.

We had a brief introduction in how to provision LXC with Vagrant for testing your code in isolation. We ended the chapter with a working implementation of a simple RESTful API that uses some of the methods we explored earlier to provision, manage, and destroy LXC. In Chapter 5, Networking in LXC with the Linux Bridge and Open vSwitch, we'll explore the networking aspects of LXC, using the Linux bridge, Open vSwitch in NAT, and direct routing modes, and look into examples of how to interconnect containers and the host OS.