All LXD need to shine over alternatives like openstack / nebula is to have a good managment UI.
everything else can be done with juju + lxd / ansible + lxd
LXD is a lot more lighterweight than competaitors and it gets things done.
@sean i had checked around nova-lxd repos and all of them (one on launchpad and one on their home repo) are dead , no upates since 2018 , even bug tracker oly have 40 bugs and 3 new bugs are 2019 . so it seems no one use it.
Furthur research show that LXD effort was abandoned and they are working on ZUN , but Libvirt supports LXD and can be configured in OpenStack with it.
Interesting.
you could try the
nova libivirt dirverwithvirt_type=lxcor zun instead
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