[nova-lxd] no one uses nova-lxd?

Sean Mooney smooney at redhat.com
Thu Aug 8 22:18:16 UTC 2019


On Fri, 2019-08-09 at 07:05 +0900, Adam Harwell wrote:
> Octavia was looking at doing a proof of concept container based backend
> driver using nova-lxd, and some work had been slowly ongoing for the past
> couple of years. But, it looks like we also will have to completely abandon
> that effort if the driver is dead. Shame. :(

you could try the nova libivirt dirver with virt_type=lxc or zun instead
> 
>     --Adam
> 
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, 05:19 Donny Davis <donny at fortnebula.com> wrote:
> 
> > https://docs.openstack.org/nova/stein/configuration/config.html
> > 
> > Looks like you can still use LXC if that fits your use case. It also looks
> > like there are images that are current here
> > https://us.images.linuxcontainers.org/
> > 
> > Not sure the state of the driver, but maybe give it a whirl and let us
> > know how it goes.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 3:28 PM Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Hey Adrian,
> > > 
> > >  I was playing with Nova LXD with OpenStack Ansible, I have an example
> > > here:
> > > 
> > >  https://github.com/tmartinx/openstack_deploy/tree/master/group_vars
> > > 
> > >  It's too bad that Nova LXD is gone...   :-(
> > > 
> > >  I use LXD a lot in my Ubuntu servers (not openstack based), so, next
> > > step would be to deploy bare-metal OpenStack clouds with it but, I canceled
> > > my plans.
> > > 
> > > Cheers!
> > > Thiago
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 15:37, Adrian Andreias <adrian at fleio.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hey,
> > > > 
> > > > We were planing to migrate some thousand containers from OpenVZ 6 to
> > > > Nova-LXD this fall and I know at least one company with the same plans.
> > > > 
> > > > I read the message about current team retiring from the project.
> > > > 
> > > > Unfortunately we don't have the manpower to invest heavily in the
> > > > project development.
> > > > We would however be able to allocate a few hours per month, at least for
> > > > bug fixing.
> > > > 
> > > > So I'm curios if there are organizations using or planning to use
> > > > Nova-LXD in production and they have the know-how and time to contribute.
> > > > 
> > > > It would be a pity if the the project dies.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers!
> > > > - Adrian Andreias
> > > > https://fleio.com
> > > > 
> > > > 




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