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Re: LXD is now under Canonical

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Post by CoolCold » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 8:25 PM UTC

ghomem wrote: post #177

totallywrong wrote: post #11

Stéphane Graber's work is fantastic and LXD had a lot of potential. But Canonical managed to drive me away from it with that abomination called Snap and its auto updates that could bring down a cluster without warning.

I agree. Snap is the weak point of LXD. I have been using it in production servers and until snap refresh --hold was made available my team went through the pains of snap workarounds [1] The LXD team was very proactive in the support side but the truth is that Snap is a pain and without --hold it would be possible for production servers to break out of a sudden due to uncontrolled updates (who did every think that th…

I'd like to hear more about your experience on joining Puppet and LXD, mind to share?

Re: LXD is now under Canonical

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Post by CoolCold » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 8:26 PM UTC

v3ss0n wrote: post #55

medellin wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moved completely off ubuntu after snaps were introduced. Sticking with gentoo now because it’s one of a few distros that doesn’t try to control what software you have to use.

This is the worse >The LXD section on the LinuxContainers community forum will slowly be sunset in favor of the Ubuntu Discourse forum run by Canonical A lot of useful lxd information are in forum.Stephane and the team is super helpful there. Also snap auto update kills my containers so I had to put on held. They also had just fixed a long standing bug that makes rebooting lxd container sometimes fails due to snap me…

I wonder, I don't remember the case like yours - I see LXD updates, but VEs (virtual environments) are kept running fine

Re: LXD is now under Canonical

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Post by loloquwowndueo » Mon, Jul 10, 2023, 2:01 PM UTC

The likely reason behind this, given today’s news, is https://stgraber.org/2023/07/10/time-to-move-on/

Re: LXD is now under Canonical

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Post by radiator » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 6:10 PM UTC

re-thc wrote: post #6

veidr wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Woah I notice that the signatures on that include Stéphane Graber. It's rather hard to imagine LXD continuing as a going concern without him. Does this mean he regrets the decision, but is going to keep working on LXD, or... does this mean LXD is fucked? -- concerned LXD user

> does this mean LXD is fucked It is either way. Docker / kubernetes is eating it up. There aren't as many LXD users as they'd hope. Oh and he does work for Canonical.

He no longer works for Canonical, it seems.