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LXD is available as a package on many distributions. While they do recommend snaps (because they can push you updates faster than the distribution), that's not

by cyphar 8y ago

LXD is available as a package on many distributions. While they do recommend snaps (because they can push you updates faster than the distribution), that's not the only way of getting it. Also, while the main development team are Canonical employees, LXC existed long before the lead developer was hired by Canonical -- and predates many projects. It's not going to be going away soon -- I'd bet that the development team would just move to a different employer if Canonical wanted to stop supporting its development.

stgraber 8y ago
Indeed, as an upstream project, maintaining packages in several distributions is extremely time consuming and near impossible when like us, you're doing monthly releases. We welcome distributions packaging LXD directly themselves and tend to recommend that they stick to the LTS releases for that as they move at a much more manageable pace. As noted, there are native packages for several distros out there, I'm currently aware of Fedora, Alpine, Arch and Gentoo. The snap, makes us, the upstream, able to easily build and test a package that will work identically on many popular Linux distributions and releases. This also makes it possible for us to release fixes and new releases at the exact same time to everyone and be able to very easily reproduce any issue that gets reported to us. We have CI in place for a lot of distributions that can use the snap package and do not let anything reach users until it's green on all of them: https://jenkins.linuxcontainers.org/job/lxd-test-snap-latest-stable/ https://jenkins.linuxcontainers.org/job/lxd-test-snap-latest...