[lxc-users] discuss.linuxcontainers.org experiment

[Ron Kelley]

Stéphane,

Thanks for setting up the discussion group.  I just joined…

As a suggestion, it would be great if we could have an official “best practices” section supported/endorsed by the Canonical team.  Or, a section whereby people can contribute their designs and others can add their viewpoints.  I know many people use LXC/LXD for home/personal use, but many of use are using this technology in data center production environments.

Some ideas off the top of my head:
* How to manage tens/hundreds of LXD servers (single host, multi-host, or multi-geo locations)
* How to quickly find mis-behaving containers (consuming too much resources, etc)
* How to get container run-time stats per LXD server
* Best practices when backing up, restoring, cloning containers
* Best practices when deploying containers (same UID, different UID per container, etc)

As we adopt LXD more and more in our DC designs, it becomes increasingly important for our organization to leverage best practices from the industry experts. 

Thanks,

-Ron


On Apr 25, 2017, at 1:50 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey there,
> 
> We know that not everyone enjoys mailing-lists and searching through
> mailing-list archives and would rather use a platform that's dedicated
> to discussion and support.
> 
> We don't know exactly how many of you would prefer using something like
> that instead of the mailing-list or how many more people are out there
> who would benefit from such a platform.
> 
> But we're giving it a shot and will see how things work out over the
> next couple of months. If we see little interest, we'll just kill it off
> and revert to using just the lxc-users list. If we see it take off, we
> may start recommending it as the preferred place to get support and
> discuss LXC/LXD/LXCFS.
> 
> 
> The new site is at: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org
> 
> 
> We support both Github login as well as standalone registration, so that
> should make it easy for anyone interested to be able to post questions
> and content.
> 
> The site is configured to self-moderate, so active users who post good
> content and help others will automatically get more privileges. That
> should let the community shape how this space works rather than have me
> and the core team babysit it :)
> 
> 
> Discourse (the engine we use for this) supports notifications by e-mail
> as well as responses and topic creation by e-mail. So for those of you
> who don't like dealing with web stuff, you can tweak the e-mail settings
> in your account and then interact with it almost entirely through
> e-mails.
> 
> Just a note on that bit, the plaintext version of those e-mails isn't so
> great right now, it's not properly wrapped, contains random spacing and
> the occasional html. I subscribed myself to receive all notifications
> and will try to tweak the discourse e-mail code for those of us who use
> mutt or other text-based clients.
> 
> 
> Anyway, please feel free to post your questions over there, share
> stories on what you're doing with LXC/LXD/LXCFS, ...
> 
> We just ask that bug reports remain on Github. If a support question
> turns out to be a bug, we'll file one for you on Github or ask for you
> to go file one there (similar to what we've been doing on this list).
> 
> 
> Hope this is a useful addition to our community!
> 
> Stéphane
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