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. No more bare-metal cloud?! :-( On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 09:08, James Page <james.page@canonical.com> wrote:
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