▲ 66 ▼ LXD: Containers for Human Beings (secluded.site) submitted 2 years ago by Voyager@psychedelia.ink to c/linux@lemmy.ml 25 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] noisypine@infosec.pub 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) I suggest anyone considering LXD also give nspawn a look. May or may not suit your needs better. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) LXD can manage VMs and can manage clusters with live migration for both containers and VMs. I don't know if nspawn can. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) No software is capable of doing live migration/high availability for pet type containers and virtual machines except lxd. But nspawn isn't really a management software like lxd is, it's more of a container runtime like lxc is. Ninja edit: Did some googling and I'm technically wrong. Hashicorp's nomad supports lxc as a driver, but according to the doc it only supports host networking... https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/plugins/drivers/community/lxc#networking But nomad also supports managing nspawn containers which is interesting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] piexil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Afaik Lxd doesn't do live migration of lxc, only vms Same as proxmox permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago Damn you're right: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/howto/move_instances/#live-migration-containers It can live migrate cattle type containers if you enable some options, but not pet type (systemd) containers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) LXD can manage VMs and can manage clusters with live migration for both containers and VMs. I don't know if nspawn can. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) No software is capable of doing live migration/high availability for pet type containers and virtual machines except lxd. But nspawn isn't really a management software like lxd is, it's more of a container runtime like lxc is. Ninja edit: Did some googling and I'm technically wrong. Hashicorp's nomad supports lxc as a driver, but according to the doc it only supports host networking... https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/plugins/drivers/community/lxc#networking But nomad also supports managing nspawn containers which is interesting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] piexil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Afaik Lxd doesn't do live migration of lxc, only vms Same as proxmox permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago Damn you're right: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/howto/move_instances/#live-migration-containers It can live migrate cattle type containers if you enable some options, but not pet type (systemd) containers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) No software is capable of doing live migration/high availability for pet type containers and virtual machines except lxd. But nspawn isn't really a management software like lxd is, it's more of a container runtime like lxc is. Ninja edit: Did some googling and I'm technically wrong. Hashicorp's nomad supports lxc as a driver, but according to the doc it only supports host networking... https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/plugins/drivers/community/lxc#networking But nomad also supports managing nspawn containers which is interesting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] piexil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Afaik Lxd doesn't do live migration of lxc, only vms Same as proxmox permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago Damn you're right: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/howto/move_instances/#live-migration-containers It can live migrate cattle type containers if you enable some options, but not pet type (systemd) containers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] piexil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Afaik Lxd doesn't do live migration of lxc, only vms Same as proxmox permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago Damn you're right: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/howto/move_instances/#live-migration-containers It can live migrate cattle type containers if you enable some options, but not pet type (systemd) containers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago Damn you're right: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/howto/move_instances/#live-migration-containers It can live migrate cattle type containers if you enable some options, but not pet type (systemd) containers. permalink fedilink source parent