[lxc-users] is LXD production ready ??

[Sean McNamara]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:15 PM, Mahesh Patade <patademahesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We are planning to have LXD as our virtualization layer for production
> systems. Currently we are using Xenserver 6.
>
> I want to know pros and cons.

LXD 2.0 will probably be "mostly production ready", but I wouldn't be
surprised if you see a few quick point releases with important fixes
in the first month or two after it's released.

If I were doing this for a commercial purpose (for business), I would
implement a plan like this:

1. Set up some test hardware to run LXD on.
2. When Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is released, install LXD and evaluate.
3. Work out any issues you have. Seek commercial support from
Canonical if the open source venue doesn't resolve your issues.
4. Perform extensive testing. If you don't find any issues, then after
3 or 4 months you might consider making this your production
environment.

If you're doing anything safety critical, mission critical or life
critical, I would extend that 3 to 4 months time frame to at least a
year, though your organization probably should already have a policy
around very formalized testing for that kind of industry.

I wouldn't recommend using LXD 2.0 in a commercial / mission-critical
production environment outside of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, because it has
several important integration points into the distro (kernel version,
libraries, kernel patches, etc.) -- you'd have to do very extensive
testing to certify it on another distro. Canonical's doing most of
that work for you on Ubuntu, though.

If you're really risk averse, give it at least another year...


Sean

>
> thanks,
> Mahesh
>
>
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