[lxc-users] future of lxc/lxd? snap?

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 9:46 PM Richard Hector <richard at walnut.gen.nz>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I see that lxd in ubuntu cosmic and disco is a transitional package for
> snap - I see that lxd can be used for snap packages, but they're not the
> same thing, right?
>
>
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2018-August/040455.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/1788040


> And Debian buster (even sid) still doesn't have lxd at all.
>
>
They have snapd. Which you can then use to instal lxd.


> Is lxd not the future of lxc after all? At least in debian-based
> distros? Or is it expected (by ubuntu) that we only use lxc for snap
> packages?
>
>
You mean "use lxc from snap packages"?
Read the two links above.


> I'm currently using lxc on debian, but wondering what happens next ...
>
> This all seems odd since the linuxcontainers site says the project is
> sponsored by Canonical ...
>
>
snapcraft.io is also owned by Canonical.

By using lxd snap, they can easly have lxd running on any distro that
already support snaps, without having to maintain separate packages.

-- 
Fajar
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