[lxc-users] LXD an "hypervisor" for containers (based on liblxc)

[Ranjib Dey]

currently im doing something similar using s3 as storage (and fuse mounted
locally if need) , it will be awesome to have a more cloud friendly,
pluggable storage :-)

On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Rigved Rakshit <r.phate at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> On 17:48, Sat, Nov 8, 2014 Guido Jäkel
>
> wrote:
>
> On 04.11.2014 18:33, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > The main features and I'm sure I'll be forgetting some are:
> >  - Image based workflow (no more locally built rootfs)
>
> Dear Stéphane,
>
> is there any plan to support an (aehm, my) infrastructure design, where
> (at least) all the container rootfs's (and the containers configuration
> files) are on shared filesystem (e.g. NFS) used by the LXC-hosts. In fact,
> all the container private an shared data space is on a shared filesystem
> resorce, too.
>
> In this design approach, each of the LXC hosts may serve any container.
> It's something like a LXC host cluster, a virtual LXC host in terms of CPU
> cores and RAM. And moving containers between different hosts (by stop and
> start) will need zero time for copying any image or data partitions. I use
> this to spread clustered containers (e.g. MySQL Master/Slave) for
> production on independent hardware or quickly rearrange some sets on the
> test stage.
>
> It will be great to have some master where one may controll the containers
> without actually have to know where the container is running for the most
> of commands -- except something related to a concrete provisioning of
> course -- and may e.g. list the overall status of all containers on all
> hosts.
>
>
>
>  This is exactly the setup someone using something like NetApp storage
> would use to store all their data while all the computation would occur on
> the LXC host cluster.
>
> It would be great to see LXD managing all of this centrally!
>
> Best Regards,
> Rigved
>
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