[dragonsh]

Has been using LXC and later LXD in our startup. It’s a pragmatic simple container and now VM management platform and can help companies to build vendor neutral cluster and high availability system leveraging the knowledge of HPC and Linux cluster community.

Kubernetes is good for google size companies, for startups it’s an additional overhead and tie their products to vendors specific kubernetes’ distributions given the complexity and moving parts.

Try the above setup and than see the simplicity. Also give a try to kubernetes and see which one is easier and better able to help. In my view for installing database and blob storage infrastructure as part of the application VM’s are still better than containers.

[cheph]

> vendor neutral

In what way is LXD vendor neutral? Are there any vendors except canonical that make significant contributions and investments to it?

[dragonsh]

LXC/LXD both are open source projects not dependent on specific vendor or cloud provider to run. Indeed one can use LXC/LXD combination or use Proxmox, OpenStack, Opennebula cloud management platform all of them suppor LXC/LXD now. All these communities using LXC/LXD contribute to it.

Funny enough indeed Debian, RedHat, Suse and Canonical contribute to LXC project as well.

If you had issues with LXD try asking your questions on LXD forum and community will support you with your issues. It will not need Canonical’s blessings to support you. It’s unlike if you had issues with anthos k8s from google, you need to be a paid subscriber to get support.