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

[Stéphane Graber]

snapd + LXD work fine on CentOS 7, it's even in our CI environment, so
presumably the same steps should work on RHEL 7.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:54 AM Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:15 PM Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel at aixigo.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 2/25/19 4:52 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
>> >
>> > snapcraft.io <http://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.
>> >
>>
>> The problem is that there is no standard for all "major" distros,
>> as this discussion shows:
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/9lbm0c/snapd_for_rhel/
>>
>
> You mean "RHEL doesn't have snapd"? You'd have to ask redhat then.
>
>>
>> Debian already has an excellent packaging scheme.
>
>
> Sure.
>
> The question now is "is anybody willing to maintain debian lxd packages"
>
>>
>> The RPM world
>> doesn't follow snapd, as it seems.
>
>
> Really?
> https://docs.snapcraft.io/installing-snap-on-fedora/6755
>
>>
>> And if you prefer your favorite
>> tool inside a container you can find docker images everywhere.
>>
>> A few years ago compatibility was achieved on source code level.
>> Sorry to say, but you lost that for lxd. And snaps are not a
>> replacement.
>>
>
> In the past I've built private RPMs for lxd on centos. It became a hassle though as (for example) I need to port additional packages as well. And I needed to change the kernel to a newer one, unsupported by centos. But it works.
>
> So if you're willing to build from source, it should still work.
>
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