Canonical has requested that the LXD project be moved from LinuxContainers to Canonical’s own infrastructure. This means that starting now, LXD related resources can be found at:
When it comes to this forum, the LXD section will be reconfigured to not allow new topics.
Existing topics will remain active and replies can be posted inside of them. New topics related to LXD posted to other sections of the forum will be redirected to the Ubuntu Discourse instead.
Canonical, the creator and main contributor of the LXD project has decided that after over 8 years as part of the Linux Containers community, the project would now be better served directly under Canonical’s own set of projects.
While the team behind Linux Containers regrets that decision and will be missing LXD as one of its projects, it does respect Canonical’s decision and is now in the process of moving the project over.
The LXD YouTube channel will be handed over to the Canonical team
The LXD section on the LinuxContainers community forum will slowly be sunset in favor of the Ubuntu Discourse forum run by Canonical
The LXD CI infrastructure will be moved under Canonical’s care
Image building for Linux Containers will no longer be relying on systems provided by Canonical, limiting image building to x86_64 and aarch64.
What will not be changing:
The rest of the Linux Containers projects remain unaffected
The image server, currently used by both LXC and LXD will keep operating as normal, though with less architectures available as mentioned above
Those changes will likely all happen pretty rapidly as everything is relatively tightly integrated together. As a result, you may notice a bit of bumpiness while Canonical sets up the replacement infrastructure.
The content can’t be transferred over, at least not in a reasonable way.
We won’t be deleting anything though and this forum will still exist for the other projects that remain under Linux Containers. We’ll just be asking that new topics be opened on the Ubuntu forum instead.
No change in Canonical’s commitment to LXD, the LXD team has been growing quite a bit recently if anything and that team (actually department these days) is all focused on LXD and MicroCloud.
I’m confused. On the FAQ post is stated that the LXD section on the Linux Containers forum will slowly be sunset in favour of a section on the Ubuntu Discourse but when i opened a new topic there, i got the hint that this discourse forum is explicitly not for community support questions …
I received from errors from weblate in the last day or so, and it is my intention to figure out what the issue and resolve them ASAP. Most likely its due to the change of repo.
Seems to be back up now. In theory Ubuntu Discourse should be more reliable in that it’s run by Canonical IS who has a 24/7 team of people looking after services unlike this forum where I’m the one running the infrastructure and dealing with outages.
Though if our experience with image servers is anything to go by, having round the clock staff doesn’t necessarily correlate with better uptime…