Hi,

Should we provide images for the vagrant lxc or lxd plugin?
The lxc plugin is dead upstream, but the lxd one seems actively
maintained: https://gitlab.com/catalyst-it/devtools/vagrant-lxd
(images for both plugins use the same format).

Lucas

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From: Adam Bolte <abolte@systemsaviour.com>
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 13:02:29 +1100
Subject: Re: Bug#983691: cloud.debian.org: provide images for vagrant-lxc/vagrant-lxd?
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Debian stable doesn't currently have lxd, so my workplace uses vagrant-lxc
with this patch:

https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc/pull/486


As a side note, we then patch Vagrant itself to fix a number of Salt bootstrap
issues that upstream doesn't want to address:

https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/pull/9386/files


With these in place, vagrant-lxc + Salt is quite satisfactory (although I
personally would rather just use LXC directly without Vagrant if given the
choice).


Our Vagrant images are over here:

https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sort=downloads&provider=&q=sitepoint

So currently our VirtualBox people (mostly macOS users) use the debian-cloud
debian/buster64 image, and our LXC people use our own
sitepoint/debian-buster-amd64 image which is a bit out of sync but close
enough.

I'm behind on packaging new stable release updates, although we don't
generally have much need to reprovision once setup. Having said that, having
debian-cloud maintain an image that we could substitute our custom one with
would make my life easier.

Adam

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Hi,

I took a deeper look at this.

One one hand, it's not difficult to provide additional Vagrant images
for lxd.

On the other hand, there's a MR and an issue on vagrant-lxd to add
support for using lxd images directly.
https://gitlab.com/catalyst-it/devtools/vagrant-lxd/-/issues/10
https://gitlab.com/catalyst-it/devtools/vagrant-lxd/-/merge_requests/9

So maybe the most logical path forward would be to maintain official lxd
images. (there are already Debian images maintained on
linuxcontainers.org).

Lucas