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Congratulations on 2.0! I tried out LXD a few months ago after hitting a few walls with Vagrant, and I've been happy since.

Mark Shuttleworth's normally responsive on Google+, and he helped point me in the right direction with initial issues that I encountered. Stéphane and the team have also been helpful on Github with issues.

The first thing I struggled with in this containers business was "what's the difference between LXC/LXD and Docker et. al.?", and I am glad that he addressed it first in the post.

I've got north of 20 containers on our machines, and LXD allows me to create a container, play around with software config on it, and when I get it right; I just leave that container and update it regularly like the host it's on.



You can also use LXC as Vagrant backend to get away from the crashy and buggy VirtualBox kernel driver. Though ~all the Vagrant images you find online are tied to VirtualBox.


Yeah, it can be a pain to get images.

That said, my workflow for testing anything these days is inside a vagrant lxc box. it is well worth the lack of images for the improved workflow.




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