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If you are set on continuing to use LXC, then ansible, puppet, salt, or chef would be the first step. That at least gets you to dip your toes into configuration management, and if you're familiar with that the later parts will become more familiar.
Longer term you should consider moving to OCI containers and runtimes (eg docker or podman). It will feel like a big leap and you'll question certain ways things are done (I should know, I did it myself years ago) but if you approach it with an open mind and give it a chance you'll find that it lets your shift left on the maintenance issues you'll be dealing with. For example with your second question, you update your base image, then build your service containers on top of that. Update once, use everywhere.