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As mentioned, this isn't my fork, it's a fork made by Aleksa who's been the long time LXD packager for OpenSUSE as well as someone very involved within the cont
by stgraber 3y ago
As mentioned, this isn't my fork, it's a fork made by Aleksa who's been the long time LXD packager for OpenSUSE as well as someone very involved within the container space, both userspace (runc, umoci, containerd, ...) and in the Linux kernel space.
The actual fork is at: https://github.com/cyphar/incus/ https://github.com/cyphar/incus/
I've just been helping out getting it to actually be functional and providing a bit of a laundry list of things I'd do differently should I be starting LXD from scratch now, which a fork like this now makes possible.
- sargun 3y agoAleksa, and you are a powerhouse. Hope y'all do great things.
- leetnewb 3y agoDo you have thoughts on how to foster more community contribution to the fork than the canonical project got over time?
- stgraber 3y agoThe LXD project had over 300 contributors over the years which while not up to par with insanely large projects like Kubernetes or Linux is still pretty respectable. So achieving similar level of contributions to a fork would already be pretty nice. It's hard to predict the community reception of the fork though and whether that will lead to more contributions than has been seen in the past when the project was backed by Canonical or if there being two active codebases will result in a reduced set of contributors to both.
- akagusu 3y agoI think it would be nice to have Incus under the Linux Containers org.
- cyphar 3y agoAsk and you shall receive ;) https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/ https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
- cduzz 3y agoBuilding an LXD-like thing that has supported RPMs would be a huge advantage.
- cyphar 3y agoWhile snaps are the more common way for people to install LXD, there are RPMs for LXD. I maintain the openSUSE ones and I believe there are ones for the RHEL/CentOS/Fedora family as well. Obviously, once incus is ready for packaging, I'll start packaging it for openSUSE as well.
- kbknapp 3y agoAt least on Fedora I've always found the RPMs either lagged pretty far behind version wise (at least the COPR repos, I can't remember if I tried the OpenSUSE ones or not? But I generally try not to use OpenSUSE RPMs due to differences that crop up between SUSE and RHEL families packages), and the snap version basically didn't work for all but the most basic cases. I'd love an actually up to date RPM compatible with the RHEL family.
- leetnewb 3y agoThanks for packaging lxd on openSUSE. That combination has been great for my personal use cases on home servers and vps.
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- MBCook 3y agoWould you be willing to post or give a summary of that list? I’d be curious to know what you would change with more experience.