[lxc-users] LXD project status

[gunnar.wagner]

so the 'snap-only' policy I thought would be applied for LXD is not that 
strict then and traditional .deb packages still exist?

On 3/29/2018 8:44 PM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> 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:
>>> 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
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