Hi All

I’m slightly sad to announce that we’re retiring the LXD driver for Nova aka “nova-lxd”.

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.

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.

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!

We’ll continue to support our current set of stable branches for another ~12 months.

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.

Regards

James