Weekly status for the week of 6th March to 12th March.
Introduction
Over the last week we have continued with our roadmap work and as part of this there have been some changes to the migration subsystem to “push down” the instance type specific logic into the relevant instance drivers. There has also been a fix for SMP VMs on s390x.
Additionally @stgraber has added a video covering the usb device type:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAord28VS4g
Job openings
Canonical Ltd. strengthens its investment into LXD and is looking at building multiple squads under the technical leadership of @stgraber.
As such, we are looking for first line managers (highly technical) and individual contributors to grow the team and pursue our efforts around scalability and clustering.
All positions are 100% remote with some travel for internal events and conferences.
For more info please see LXD related openings at Canonical Ltd (2022-2023)
LXD
Improvements:
- Pushed the instance type specific migration logic into the associated instance driver (rather than being in the main migration subsystem).
Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug with SMP VMs on s390x.
- Temporarily reverted VM generation ID support (
volatile.uuidregeneration) whilst it is reworked to use dedicated generation ID volatile key.
YouTube videos
The LXD team is running a YouTube channel with live streams covering LXD releases and weekly videos on different aspects of LXD. You may want to give it a watch and/or subscribe for more content in the coming weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/lxd-videos
Contribute to LXD
Ever wanted to contribute to LXD but not sure where to start?
We’ve recently gone through some effort to properly tag issues suitable for new contributors on Github: Easy issues for new contributors
Upcoming events
- Nothing to report this week
Ongoing projects
The list below is feature or refactoring work which will span several weeks/months and can’t be tied directly to a single Github issue or pull request.
- Stable release work for LXC, LXCFS and LXD
Upstream changes
The items listed below are highlights of the work which happened upstream over the past week and which will be included in the next release.
LXD
- Instance: Push down migration logic into each storage driver (send)
- Instance: Push down migration logic into each storage driver (receive)
- lxd: Remove volatile.uuid generation for backup/snapshot restore
- test: Shorten boot.host_shutdown_timeout in clustering_evacuation tests
- Instance: Don’t mask source errors with disconnection error by adding synchronisation of receipt of control message
- lxd/instance/qemu: Fix SMP on s390x
LXC
- Nothing to report this week
LXCFS
- Nothing to report this week
Distrobuilder
- Nothing to report this week
LXD Charm
- Nothing to report this week
Distribution work
This section is used to track the work done in downstream Linux distributions to ship the latest LXC, LXD and LXCFS as well as work to get various software to work properly inside containers.
Ubuntu
- Nothing to report this week
Snap
- Nothing to report this week