[lxc-users] is LXD production ready ??

[Mahesh Patade]

Hi Sean,

thanks for your valuable inputs. i'll try it in testing environment first
for atleast 6 months.

Mahesh
On 22 Mar 2016 10:32 am, "Sean McNamara" <smcnam at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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