--- title: 'LXD weekly status #39' description: Introduction The focus for this week was on CEPH and LXD clustering, trying to get the last few remaining pieces to work together properly. We’ve tagged a couple more betas as we went through that. We’ve also spent a good chunk of time getting Ubuntu and Debian images to switch over to distrobuilder. They’re now […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/lxd-weekly-status-39?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Stéphane Graber](https://canonical.com/blog/author/stgraber "More about Stéphane Graber") 20 March 2018 # LXD weekly status #39 [Linux Containers](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/linux-containers) [LXD](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/lxd) [machine containers](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/machine-containers) --- Share the article ## ## Introduction The focus for this week was on CEPH and LXD clustering, trying to get the last few remaining pieces to work together properly. We’ve tagged a couple more betas as we went through that. We’ve also spent a good chunk of time getting Ubuntu and Debian images to switch over to distrobuilder. They’re now both building daily on Jenkins and we’re just a few changes to our publication logic away from switching to them by default on the image server. On the LXC side, we’ve done a few last minute cleanups and tagged another beta. We’d still love to get more feedback on the current betas as we work out the last few issues before the final 3.0 release. ## Upcoming conferences and events * [GPU technology conference1](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/gtc/topics/data-center-and-cloud/#christian-brauner) (San Jose, March 2018) * [NorthSec](https://nsec.io/speakers/#st-phane-graber) (Montreal, May 2018) ## Ongoing projects The list below is feature or refactoring work which will span several weeks/months and can’t be tied directly to a single Github issue or pull request. * Various kernel work * Stable release work for LXC, LXCFS and LXD ## Upstream changes The items listed below are highlights of the work which happened upstream over the past week and which will be included in the next release. ### LXD * Fixed a number of [CEPH related clustering issues](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4307). * Fixed [automatic placement of containers within a cluster2](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4325). * Fixed a [crash when listing broken containers](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4327). * Re-introduced an [early check for existing LXD daemons](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4330). * Fixed [socket activation handling](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4331). * Updated [documentation to cover building one’s own liblxc1](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4334). * Improved performance of [privileged container creation on btrfs1](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/4336). ### LXC * Removed [`aufs` storage driver1](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2210). * Fixed [boolean handling in set\_config\_item](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2214). * Fixed clang [warning when building without libcap](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2216). * Fixed configuration to [only run mount hook once](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2217). * Fixed a [use after free in the handler](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2221). * Update [Japanese man page after removal of aufs](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2222). * Fixed a [use after free in the tools](https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/2223). ### LXCFS * Nothing to report this week ### Distrobuilder * Improved the [/etc/hosts generator](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/56). * Fixed [file templating and allowed template chaining](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/57). * Added an [upstart tty generator](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/58). * Update [README.md to match current yaml](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/59). * Refactored use of [rootfsDir out of distrobuilder](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/61). * Removed [useless meta.tar from the tree](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/62). * Changed [pongo2 templating to use YAML tags](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/63). * Fixed the [default values for name and description variables](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/64). * Fixed distrobuilder to [consistently use the kernel architecture](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/66). * Fixed /etc/hosts [LXD generator to also prepend host line if needed](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/67). * Added support to [overriding YAML keys through the command line](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/68). * Fixed templating to [consistently add a trailing newline as needed](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/69). * Fixed running [multiple instances of distrobuilder at the same time](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/70). * Exported the [mapped architecture to templates](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/72). * Updated [README.md to link to CI](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/73). ## Distribution work This section is used to track the work done in downstream Linux distributions to ship the latest LXC, LXD and LXCFS as well as work to get various software to work properly inside containers. ### Ubuntu * 3.0.0~beta4-0ubuntu1 was uploaded, following the upstream release. * 3.0.0~beta5-0ubuntu1 was uploaded, following the upstream release. * 3.0.0~beta5-0ubuntu2 was uploaded, disabling LVM testing in adt. ### Snap * The beta channel was updated to LXD 3.0.0.beta4. * The beta channel was updated to LXD 3.0.0.beta5. ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. 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