<div dir="ltr">Oh, that's very sad news... I was about to deploy a relatively big OpenStack Cloud (for ~500 LXD Instances) running on nova-lxd but now, I'll cancel it.<div>No more bare-metal cloud?!   :-(</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 09:08, James Page <<a href="mailto:james.page@canonical.com">james.page@canonical.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_3370801024859290769gmail-docs-internal-guid-fd750384-7fff-9cf0-20c4-a142d54241cc"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi All</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I’m slightly sad to announce that we’re retiring the LXD driver for Nova aka “nova-lxd”.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Developing a driver for Nova for container based machines has been a fun and technically challenging ride over the last four years but we’ve never really seen any level of serious production deployment; as a result we’ve decided that it’s time to call it a day for nova-lxd.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I’d like to thank all of the key contributors for their efforts over the years - specifically Chuck Short, Paul Hummer, Chris MacNaughton, Sahid Orentino and Alex Kavanaugh who have led or contributed to the development of the driver over its lifetime.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I’ll be raising a review to leave a note for future followers as to the fate of nova-lxd.  If anyone else would like to continue development of the driver they are more than welcome to revert my commit and become a part of the development team!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’ll continue to support our current set of stable branches for another ~12 months.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Note that development of LXD and the pylxd Python module continues; its just the integration of OpenStack with LXD that we’re ceasing development of.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Regards</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">James</span></p></font></span><br class="gmail-m_3370801024859290769gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>
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