TurnKey LXD image server

[JedMeister]

Spammy on the forums has requested that we host our own LXD server. TBH I'm not 100% sure on the requirements or what is involved but it seems like a cool idea...

[JedMeister]

bmullan has added some more details with some links etc. It all sounds fairly straight forward so IMO we should definitely consider this!

[JedMeister]

Also see https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/1581#issuecomment-254677758

[jgillich]

See my comment at https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/is-there-a-lxd-hub-in-the-pipleline-anywhere/103/7

Could this be of interest to the TurnKey project? I have no idea how you're currently building images and if you have ever considered Packer, but to me this sounds like a great fit.

[JedMeister]

Hey @jgillich thanks for your input.

Whilst we've been keeping half an eye on Packer, we've been using our homegrown buildtasks to build to multiple image targets since long before Packer. It's essentially just a bundle of bash scripts. We have briefly looked at rebasing on Packer, but we decided that whilst in the long term, it may make maintenance somewhat easier, there are still lots of custom code we'd need to provide for our workflow and infrastructure. It felt like way too much work, for too little benefit. So whilst our code probably isn't as end-user friendly as theirs, I would argue that it's just as effective...

On the downside, our code is targetted for our workflow and our appliances, so is very TurnKey (Debian) specific. It is designed to run on top of our TKLDev appliance (our "build env in a box"). FWIW buildtasks was originally tooled for Ubuntu; but we've long since rebased on Debian. So TBH, I'm not sure of how useful it'd be for you Ubuntu guys...?!

PS sorry for such a slow response... I'm not really sure how/why I missed your post previously...