lxd: support for container profiles

README.md

@@ -792,6 +792,15 @@ backends:
                 image: ubuntu:16.04.1
 ```
 
+Additionally, you can provide a comma-seperated list of LXD profiles to use:
+```
+backends:
+    lxd:
+        profiles: my-profile
+        systems:
+            - ubuntu-16.04
+```
+
 That's it. Have fun with your self-contained multi-system task runner.
 
 

spread/lxd.go

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
-	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
@@ -15,6 +14,8 @@ import (
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+
 	"golang.org/x/net/context"
 )
 
@@ -111,6 +112,12 @@ func (p *lxdProvider) Allocate(ctx context.Context, system *System) (Server, err
 	if !p.options.Reuse {
 		args = append(args, "--ephemeral")
 	}
+	if p.backend.Profiles != "" {
+		profiles := strings.Split(p.backend.Profiles, ",")
+		for _, profile := range profiles {
+			args = append(args, "--profile", profile)
+		}
+	}
 	output, err := exec.Command("lxc", args...).CombinedOutput()
 	if err != nil {
 		err = outputErr(output, err)

spread/project.go

@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ type Backend struct {
 	// Only for qemu so far.
 	Memory Size
 
+	// Only for LXD so far.
+	Profiles string
+
 	// Only for Linode and Google so far.
 	Plan     string
 	Location string