A look into the LXD 5.21.0 LTS release

The LXD team is happy to announce the newest 5.21.0 LTS release, supported until 2029. The release is packed with new features we have been developing over the past two years. In this video, we’ll go over some general changes in this LTS, as well as demo some of the most recent features. Please share your feedback with the team on our discourse page.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:07 Version numbering scheme change
04:00 Default snap track change
04:50 UI enabled by default
06:18 Legacy removal and snap changes
08:03 Update on the image server
09:00 LTS overview
10:43 Demos intro
11:40 Ceph RBD optimized refresh
17:11 Dell PowerFlex storage driver
21:08 CephFS remote filesystem creation
24:27 Instance initial volume configuration
29:00 Fine grained authorisation
41:35 Debug mode for EDK2 UEFI firmware
44:21 Direct modification of VM UEFI variables
52:06 Summary and planning for the next cycle

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[devops-show]

Happy to hear the image server is almost ready. The OIDC stuff is really neat, really happy about that!

[nuccitheboss]

Excellent work folks! Keep up the good work 👏

[thrashassault]

does it support GPU pass though and how do i convert virtualbox image to lxd

[radhwanbasher]

Thanks, can give some tetoreals about container live migration in lXD

[ShaneHolloman]

would be good to improve video resolution to at least 1080, 720 is soft