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> The paradigm of lxd is much more foreign to me than docker.

The paradigm of lxd is pretty much exactly the same as the paradigm of a regular distribution installed on bare metal or inside a VM. If you can operate a regularly installed distribution, then you can operate inside a lxd container. The commands to create and destroy lxd containers are trivial ("lxc launch ubuntu:bionic" for example).

> Kernel minutiae is not and the technical skill requirements is much higher.

I'm not sure why you think you need to know kernel minutiae, cgroups or kernel namespaces. Operating lxd needs none of that.

> I am pretty familiar with my application and the distro of the container in a user perspective.

That's all you need.