LXD image mirrors broken?

[tpurschke (Tim Purschke)]

I have been getting the following 404 error all day:

tim@acantha:~/bin$ wget https://uk.lxd.images.canonical.com/1.0
--2021-11-30 19:36:02--  https://uk.lxd.images.canonical.com/1.0
Resolving uk.lxd.images.canonical.com (uk.lxd.images.canonical.com)... 91.189.88.248, 91.189.88.247, 2001:67c:1360:8001::33, ...
Connecting to uk.lxd.images.canonical.com (uk.lxd.images.canonical.com)|91.189.88.248|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2021-11-30 19:36:03 ERROR 404: Not Found.
tim@acantha:~/bin$ 

Happens with ipv4, ipv6 for both uk and us mirrors. Not sure if I am missing something - anyone else having trouble accessing images?

[stgraber (Stéphane Graber)]

Update to our image servers

Hello, We’ve recently been doing some work to modernize and improve our image servers. New mirrors The two frontend servers provided by Canonical Ltd. have been replaced by four new servers, two in the UK and two in the US, providing additional capacity and making maintenance easier by not having to temporarily re-route all traffic to another continent. We always recommend everyone interact with our image servers through https://images.linuxcontainers.org which will then send you to the clos…

[tpurschke (Tim Purschke)]

Thanks Stéphane,

I am already using the recommended URL.
Here is the ansible task I am using (worked fine until recently):

- name: create frontend servers with fwo
  loop: "{{ groups['frontendfwoservers'] }}"
  lxd_container:
    name: "{{ item }}"
    state: started
    profiles: ["default","frontend","fwoprofile"]
    source:
      type: image
      mode: pull
      server: https://images.linuxcontainers.org
      alias: "{{ hostvars[item].os_image }}"
    devices:
      eth0:
        type: nic
        nictype: bridged
        parent: lxdbrfront
        ipv4.address: "{{ hostvars[item].ip_address }}"

TASK [lxd-host : create frontend servers with fwo] *************************************************************************************************
failed: [localhost] (item=devsrv3) => {"actions": [], "ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": "devsrv3", "msg": "Failed to fetch https://uk.lxd.images.canonical.com/1.0: 404 Not Found"}

any idea what could be going wrong?

[stgraber (Stéphane Graber)]

No you’re not, the post I linked to mentions the deprecation of the lxd protocol on those image servers in favor of simplestreams.

In your case, try setting protocol: "simplestreams" in the source section, that may do the trick (though the alias name may differ).

[tpurschke (Tim Purschke)]

It works with the line added as this:
source:
type: image
mode: pull
protocol: “simplestreams”

Thanks Stéphane - keep up the good work - I really like lxd (replaced our ESXi installation with it 2 years ago)

[madsurgeon (David Andel)]

Where do I find this setting?
I can’t find it anywhere.