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TCB13@lemmy.world 10 months agoOK, I can definitely see how your professional experiences as described would lead to this amount of distrust. I work in data centres myself, so I have plenty of war stories of my own about some of the crap we’ve been forced to work with.
It’s not just the level of distrust, is the fact that we eventually moved all those nodes to LXD/Incus and the amount of random issues in day to day operations dropped to almost zero. LXD/Incus covers the same ground feature-wise (with a very few exceptions that frankly didn’t also work properly under Proxmox) and performs better under the continuous high loads you expect on a datacenter.
When it performs that well on the extreme case, why not use for self-hosting as well? :)
I’m interested in have a play with LXD/Incus, but that’ll mean either finding a spare server to try it on, or unpicking a Proxmox node to do it.
Well you can always virtualize under a Proxmox node so you get familiar with it ahaha
msage@programming.dev 10 months ago
How is the development of LXD?
I am a huge fan of LXC, but I hate random daemons running (so no Docker for me). I have been looking at the Linux Container website, and they mentioned Canonical taking LXD development under its wings, and something about no one else participating apart from Canonical devs.
So I’m kind of scared about the future of LXC and Incus. Do you have any more information about that?
TCB13@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Canonical decided to take LXD away from the Linux Containers initiative and “close it” by changing the license. Meanwhile most of the original team at Canonical that made both LXC and LXD into a real thing quit Canonical and are not working on Incus or somehow indirectly “on” the Linux Containers initiative.
Yes, because everyone is pushing code into Incus and the team at Canonical is now very, very small and missing the key people.
The future is bright and there’s money to make things happen from multiple sources. When it comes to the move from LXD to Incus I specifically asked stgraber about what’s going to happen in the future to the current Debian LXD users and this was his answer:
As you can see, even the LTS LXD version present on Debian 12 will work for a long time. Eventually everyone will move to Incus in Debian 13 and LXD will be history.
msage@programming.dev 10 months ago
Excelent write-up, thank you very much. I’m going to invest my time to learning Incus!