How to Build a Snap Behind a Proxy With SSL Bump In a Vagrant VM

[jamesh]

@jocado

We are building behind a proxy, the stock LXD images are no good to us, as they try and apt-get from places that are restricted. Is there any way of leveraging LXD for building behind a proxy that doesn’t require making our own LXD images ?

I know Snapcraft will pass through the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables to the build inside the LXD container. Snap builds on Launchpad rely on a proxy for Internet access, so this is fairly well tested.

If the problem is LXD’s attempts to download images, you might have luck calling systemctl set-environment https_proxy=... before installing the LXD snap in your VM.