Announce: LXD available as a snap

[Stéphane Graber]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 06:49:42AM +0500, Omer Akram wrote:
> Fantastic news, I have been craving for this for a while.
> 
> I need to highlight however that on a all-snap system(tried on a RPi 2) the
> lxd group cannot be added as /etc/group is ready-only. So lxd does not work
> there currently.

Yep, that's the first bug linked in my list below.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 4:20 AM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > As of a few minutes ago, LXD is now available as a snap in the stable
> > channel.
> > This has been confirmed to work on both Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10, provided
> > that snapd and snap-confine are perfectly up to date.
> >
> > If you want to try it, pick a machine that you're NOT using LXD on and do:
> >  - apt remove --purge lxd lxd-client
> >  - groupadd --system lxd
> >  - snap install lxd
> >  - lxd init
> >  - lxd.lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 xenial
> >
> > This will remove your existing LXD to prevent any confusion between the
> > snap and packaged version, will ensure that you have a "lxd" group on
> > your system and then install LXD. Note that the daemon can take a little
> > while to startup on first installation, so you may have to retry the
> > "lxd init" step.
> >
> > And that's it, you've got LXD running with your first container!
> >
> > The default values in lxd init will get you a ZFS backed storage and a
> > working network for your containers.
> >
> > Our channel setup looks something like:
> >  - stable (manual, latest release)
> >  - candidate (semi-automatic, staging area for stable)
> >  - beta (manual, unused currently)
> >  - edge (automatic, auto-upload when git master changes)
> >
> > Note that edge can be updated up to 5-6 times a day (as it was today).
> >
> > Known limitations (sorted by priority):
> >  - "lxd" group must exist ahead of time: https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> > snappy/+bug/1606510
> >  - Updating the snap restarts all containers: https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> > snappy/+bug/1632508
> >  - Can't provide the "lxc" command: https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> > snappy/+bug/1607748
> >  - LXD always runs even when unused: https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> > snappy/+bug/1612440
> >  - No powerpc build due to lack of snapcraft support:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+bug/1632091
> >  - Unable to build using a specific commit: https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> > snapcraft/+bug/1632126
> >  - Ability to distribute multiple upstream series:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1611424
> >
> > The LXD team will be working with the Snappy team to address the above
> > limitations.
> > With those sorted, we'll be able to make the LXD snap the best way to
> > experience LXD.
> >
> >
> > If you run into issues, please file bugs!
> >  - For LXD bugs: https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues
> >  - For packaging bugs: https://github.com/lxc/lxd-pkg-ubuntu/issues
> >  - If unsure, file against LXD.
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> > Stéphane
> >
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-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
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