Interesting move by Canonical. Wonder if this is related to the new GUI for LXD that Canonical released recently? Or maybe they want to bring more projects in-house after the RHEL shakeup?

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    How do you notice that you are not really awake yet? By thinking for several minutes about what LXD has to do with containers and then realising that you yourself had LXDE in mind.

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    huh, was it not before? i thought the entire lx* space was canonical’s thing

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      1 year ago

      Was developed by Canonical, but under the Linux Containers umbrella.

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    I wonder if this means LXC (which seems neglected lately) and LXD will soon be maintained by different people.

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    Used it once or twice then stopped, prefer raw lxc or even just manually creating namespaces if I want control.

    Never quite understood the point, the additional polish seemed fairly minimal from a utility pov.

    They should take over proxmox or something, give themselves a complete story.

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      I don’t know if I want a project as cool as Proxmox owned by the “you will use snap and you will like it” Canonical

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        I haven’t been following, but that’s actually good to hear, proxmox needs a better ui.

        LXD, I suppose for the migration, but for any more complex orchestration I think you’ve moving to k8s or something more serious, LXD just has an odd “not enough but too much” feature set for me, I like things either push-button, or let me do it, this is kind of both.

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                I do that with lxd, but I have written ansible playbooks (almost like dockerfile? ) to automate the lxd containers. You could probably write some automation for scaling as well, but not something I’ve done, I have just opted for high availability with ceph & keepalived. Whatever works for your use case :) I do use some docker, but this is still nested inside lxd…

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        Oh, bullshit. The minimal interface that Ubuntu offers isn’t even a pimple on the Proxmox front end, and doesn’t touch the filesystem, clustering abilities and backup solution that’s the equivalent of Veeam IMO.