Linux Containers - LXD - Has been moved to Canonical
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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?

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    The point is that you want management, easy ways to create images, backups, move container between hosts, orchestration, network management and sometimes not only container but also virtual machines. LXD does it all very well and if you don’t want those resources you might as well use systemd-nspawn.

    They’ve taken over Proxmox. Not sure if you’re following but they have now a WebUI and the entire solution is magnitudes better than the crap Proxmox has been offering.

    • InverseParallax@voyager.lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        for any more complex orchestration I think you’ve moving to k8s or something more serious

        I guess it depends in your use case. If you’re taking about “regular” applications LXD/LXC might not be your best fit. LXD/LXC seem to very good for the more low level infraestruture related solutions. In contrast, whatever is typically deployed with k8s that is mostly immutable very reproducible and kind of runs at a very high level.

        LXD is more about what might power that “higher level” layer, more about mutable containers, virtual machines and very complex stacks that you can’t deploy with docker most of the time. As excepted people with those needs greatly leverage cloud-init and Ansible in order to get the reproducibility and the automated deployment capabilities that the Docker “crowd” usually likes.

          • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Not a correction, it has its uses :) I would never deploy a web app and its API, database etc. using LXD, makes no sense, k8s is way better for that.

            • Mount_Linux@vlemmy.netEnglish
              0·
              1 year ago

              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…

              • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                I also do playbooks to deploy stuff some stuff with LXD, but my end users only like Docker so, I kind of setup the infrastructure that allows them to deploy Docker on top of LXD containers that are deployed using Ansible.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        There you are, calling bullshit on my post while deleting your own where you clearly demonstrated close to no experience with LXD and its clustering capabilities. lol

        The minimal interface that Ubuntu offers

        Once again your ineptitude is palpable. Ubuntu doesn’t offer anything, the WebUI is a part of LXD.

        And yes LXD’s WebUI released “yesterday” is objectively better than Proxmox and it does touch storage and clustering.

        The minimal interface that Ubuntu offers