Amazon Linux 2023 does it work?

LXD
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I was wondering if anyone had any experience running LXD containers on Amazon Linux 2023?

I’ve not got access to EC2 currently so I was hoping if somebody would be happy to knowledge share.

Apparently its based around Fedora not doesn’t support EPEL repos…

I couldn’t find snapd on the package list.

I assume that means having to download and install the static tarball?

Cheers in advance
Simon

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You can check this out: https://github.com/albuild/snap (it’s kind of old though)

Then, after following the instructions, can you try:

sudo snap install lxd

And see if it works ?

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Thanks but it doesn’t work on Amazon Linux 2023 which is Fedora based as it seems to be built for Amazon Linux 2 which is RHEL based.

However I’ll have a go at building snap myself on amazon line 2023 that seems like a more elegant solution than building LXD myself and missing the update/versioning functionality.

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I’ve thus far failed to get incus to compile/work with Amazon Linux 2023 but then I never claimed to be a Go developer ;-),

In the end I found a GitHub project with an old version of snapd which allows me to install lxd.

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Fedora 38 which is what Amazon 2023 is based on I no longer supported by Redhat which means no Incus packages.

I would imagine at some point in the future that Amazon will produce a new version of Amazon Linux (2025 perhaps) and that might have a short window of Incus support.

Which means I’m stuck with LXD for the forceable future.