Woo Hoo! No need for snap anymore. We pure Debian users are no longer limited to just LXC anymore (https://wiki.debian.org/LXD). Thanks to all the dev’s (especially Mathias Gibbens) for all the hard work on this.
Now… time for me to explore pure Debian servers to displace Proxmox/LXC for some use cases.
For those of us not familiar with lxd, could you summarize what it’s presently mainly used for? It looks to me like it’s a container system with a higher level of isolation than lxc, but is it principally interesting for deploying server software in a VPS-per-machine to try to limits the impact of a compromised server? Playing video games from unknown and potentially-untrusted sources? People reselling VPS service?
Skimming the tools page, I’m guessing maybe a little of #1 and a little of #3, but couldn’t say for sure.
This guy does a excellent job on explaining not only the details, but the terminology too, and how to install, use, and configure. So I’m going to share this video for you and even the newbies who stumble over this post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIwgPKkVj8s
Ah, okay. It’s apparently a system for managing lxc containers.
Looking at the main page, it apparently targets both individual applications and full containerized systems.