# Using Ansible to manage remote lxc container

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-ansible-to-manage-remote-lxc-container/20271>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 19, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-ansible-to-manage-remote-lxc-container/20271 "2016-01-19T12:50:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thibault\_Jouannic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Thibault\_Jouannic](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Thibault_Jouannic)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-ansible-to-manage-remote-lxc-container/20271/1 "2016-01-19T12:50:26Z")

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Hi all,

I very recently started to work with Ansible, and my problem is that I cannot find a way to handle our remote lxc containers.

We have a remote host that I can ssh into, and on that host we set up a few lxc containers with no sshd servers (and I’d like to keep it that way).

All I could find was a [pull request to add a new connection backend](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/9427)but the code is incompatible with Ansible 2.0.

I searched for half a day without finding the start of a solution, besides downgrading to an older version. Could anyone point me towards the right direction?

Thanks.  
Thibault