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Weekly status for the week of 24th April to 30th April.

Introduction

This past week some of the LXD team were in Prague for the Canonical roadmap sprint and this week the rest of the LXD team have joined them for the engineering sprint.

As well as planning for the next development cycle the team were also focused on reducing our bug backlog ready for the start of the next cycle.

Additionally @stgraber finished his video series on LXD instance devices by adding a summary video covering the nic top-level device type.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W62eno28KMY

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:

  • Added qemu.conf to allowed files that can be accessed when retrieving logs.
  • Added oidc.* keys to bash completion.
  • Added support in the DB generation package to support marshalling/unmarshalling.

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed regression in snapshot pruning where snapshots that should have been deleted were not immediately removed.
  • Fixed lxc exec losing some output sometimes on highly loaded systems.
  • Fixed incorrect return type of GetStoragePoolVolumeNamesAllProjects in API client package to allow differentiating volumes of the same name in different projects.
  • Fixed lxc export so that if an export file name is not specified then the file created is named after the instance and uses the correct extension name based on the compression used.
  • Fixed panic in LXD when invalid migration success response was sent by client by handling a nil success message correctly.
  • Fixed regression in operation lock timeout for instance create by removing the automatic timeout of operation locks. As part of this the instance shutdown and instance restart tasks now use a default 10 minute timeout if not specified (rather than the previous indefinite timeout).
  • Fixed an issue with ZFS filesystem volumes when using block mode with ext4 that was restricting the root disk minimum size an instance could use when being created from an image. The fix was to disable resize2fs safety checks when creating instance volumes from an image volume that were smaller than the original image volume. By disabling safety checks the resize2fs command is able to shrink the volume to a smaller size, and it will still fail if the target size is genuinely too small. Disabling safety checks means that if the resize fails the volume will be left in an inconsistent state, but this does not matter when creating an instance as LXD will then delete the volume as part of the cleanup process.

Distrobuilder

Improvements:

  • Added the --with-post-files flag to the build-dir command. If set, it runs those post-files actions which don’t have a type filter set.

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

LXC

  • Nothing to report this week

LXCFS

  • Nothing to report this week

Distrobuilder

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
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