[stgraber]

Indeed, as an upstream project, maintaining packages in several distributions is extremely time consuming and near impossible when like us, you're doing monthly releases.

We welcome distributions packaging LXD directly themselves and tend to recommend that they stick to the LTS releases for that as they move at a much more manageable pace.

As noted, there are native packages for several distros out there, I'm currently aware of Fedora, Alpine, Arch and Gentoo.

The snap, makes us, the upstream, able to easily build and test a package that will work identically on many popular Linux distributions and releases. This also makes it possible for us to release fixes and new releases at the exact same time to everyone and be able to very easily reproduce any issue that gets reported to us.

We have CI in place for a lot of distributions that can use the snap package and do not let anything reach users until it's green on all of them: https://jenkins.linuxcontainers.org/job/lxd-test-snap-latest...