On 8 January 2016 at 00:48, Jorge O. Castro <jo...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Katherine walked me through using the new LXD provider in the Juju > Alpha: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/ > > The one caveat right now is that you need to be on wily or xenial as your > host. > > We are collecting feedback here along with the current working > instructions: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lbh3ZkkSdBOGRadF_6FWrijbOhH4Vf2f7alrZFr8pz0/edit?usp=sharing
I don't seem to be able to add feedback there. Initial feedback: - lxd hasn't made it into the release notes yet, at least in the 1.26alpha3 copy I have. - container creation is as slow or slower than lxc. I think there are still some 'apt get updates', upgrades and package installs being run between container creation and kicking off the charm. It is well over an order of magnitude slower to do 'juju deploy ubuntu' than it is to 'lxc launch ubuntu first'. We might need richer templates, with agents and dependencies preinstalled. Yes, it is fast but seems only as fast as the lxc provider with the btrfs hack has been for some time (I'm using the btrfs hack with lxd too, per the lxd getting started guide). - bootstrap spits out a well known and understood error. The images team needs to fix this or juju team work around it, as it breaks charms too (cassandra, rabbit, others have fallen victim): "sudo: unable to resolve host juju-f2339d90-dd3c-4a1f-8cd2-13e7c795df3f-machine-0". The fix is to add the relevant entry for $hostname to /etc/hosts. - The namespace option in environments.yaml doesn't seem to have any visible effect. I'm still getting container names like juju-f2339d90-dd3c-4a1f-8cd2-13e7c795df3f-machine-0, whereas I'd like something friendlier. This is likely just me not understanding what this option does. - alas, I tripped over a show stopper for me elsewhere in 1.26alpha3 so haven't proceeded much further. Anecdotally it seems more reliable than the old lxc provider, but I'll need to be able to do more runs to confirm that. - I very much look forward to using a remote lxd server. Its always surprising how many Cassandra nodes this little laptop can support, but offloading it to a cloud vm while keeping the fast container spinup times will be nice ;) -- Stuart Bishop <stuart.bis...@canonical.com> -- Juju mailing list Juju@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju
