The Linux Containers project team, which develops tools for managing isolated LXC containers, the LXD container manager, the virtual filesystem LXCFS, the image building tool distrobuilder, the libresource library, and the lxcri runtime, has announced that the LXD container manager will now be developed separately by Canonical. Canonical, the creator and main developer of LXD, after 8 years of development within Linux Containers, has decided that LXD is better suited for corporate development rather than as an independent community project. The development of the other Linux Containers projects will remain unchanged.
The LXD code has been migrated from the lxc/lxd repository to canonical/lxd, and the main project page has become ubuntu.com/lxd. The continuous integration infrastructure for LXD will be moved to Canonical's servers. The systems provided by Canonical for building images for Linux Containers will no longer be used. The image building server previously used for LXC and LXD will remain, but the number of architectures involved in the build process will be reduced to x86_64 and aarch64.
LXD provides tools for centralized management of containers deployed in a multi-node cluster. serversThe LXD code is written in Go and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It uses the LXC toolkit as the runtime for running containers. LXD is implemented as a background process that accepts requests over the network through a REST API and supports various storage backends (directory trees, ZFS, Btrfs, LVM), state snapshots, live migration of running containers from one machine to another, and tools for storing container images.
Source: opennet.ru
