[lxc-users] LXD project status

[Simos Xenitellis]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:32 AM, gunnar.wagner
<gunnar.wagner at netcologne.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/28/2018 2:45 AM, Michel Jansens wrote:
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>> Does this means LXD 3.0 will be part of Ubuntu 18.04 next month?
>
> I guess (as LXD is using snap packages by default, right) it's not a matter
> of distribution any lomnger but more of distribution able to run snap
> packages well (which not every distribution does as far as I know [i.e.
> OpenSUSE])
>

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be based on LXD 3.0.xx, supported until 2018+5y = 2023.
Those that have the LXD snap ('lxd', stable channel), are likely to
get upgraded to 3.1, 3.2 and so on,
as the new versions appear.
It was mentioned on the forum in December that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will
have by default the .deb version of LXD 3.0.

This happened with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, which has LXD 2.0.xx (currently at 2.0.11)
and is supported until 2021. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was launched with the
new LXD 2.0 at that time.

When you do 'snap info lxd', you get

...
channels:
  stable:        2.21        (5866) 49MB -
  candidate:     2.21        (6005) 51MB -
  beta:          3.0.0.beta7 (6240) 55MB -
  edge:          git-9a60cd9 (6251) 55MB -
  2.0/stable:    2.0.11      (5384) 21MB -
  2.0/candidate: 2.0.11      (5384) 21MB -
  2.0/beta:      ↑
  2.0/edge:      git-d71807e (6069) 20MB -

which means that there is the option to switch to the snap 'LTS'
version of LXD 2.0 ('2.0/stable').

Simos