Seriously? Ubuntu Advantage? Who really needs that If you have a good sysadmin team...?
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Sean McNamara <[email protected]> wrote: > Ron, > > If you are using LXD as part of line of business or mission critical > infrastructure for an enterprise, I would have expected that you would > already have purchased a comprehensive Ubuntu Advantage support plan > from Canonical. That's the most reliable way to get relevant, > up-to-date, "official" advice from Canonical as to best practices and > usability tips. > > The point of Ubuntu Advantage is that you're getting "official" help > from the source, and IIRC it comes with a response time SLA so you can > be sure that if the developers get busy with deadlines, you'll still > get a response within X hours/days. > > Full disclosure: I used to be an Ubuntu Advantage customer, and had a > good experience, but I have no financial or social incentive to > promote a Canonical offering... I just think it'd be good to have if > you don't have it already. And if you do have it, use it! > > You can also ask on Discourse or the mailing list, but keep in mind > that Discourse and the mailing list are open to the user community, so > you're going to get "unofficial" responses that might be wrong or not > applicable to your situation (such as mine ;)). > > To me, it would be a little weird to have some sort of officially > blessed set of Canonical-only official posts on the Discourse. Isn't > the purpose of the Discourse to be open to the community? (Including > posts by core devs, who might be Canonical employees, but are speaking > on behalf of themselves as an individual, not on behalf of the > company.) > > If having the official advice of the company as a legal entity is > critical to you, I can only give you a positive endorsement of Ubuntu > Advantage as a fellow customer. > > Sean > > > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Ron Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Stéphane, > > > > Thanks for setting up the discussion group. I just joined… > > > > As a suggestion, it would be great if we could have an official “best > practices” section supported/endorsed by the Canonical team. Or, a section > whereby people can contribute their designs and others can add their > viewpoints. I know many people use LXC/LXD for home/personal use, but many > of use are using this technology in data center production environments. > > > > Some ideas off the top of my head: > > * How to manage tens/hundreds of LXD servers (single host, multi-host, > or multi-geo locations) > > * How to quickly find mis-behaving containers (consuming too much > resources, etc) > > * How to get container run-time stats per LXD server > > * Best practices when backing up, restoring, cloning containers > > * Best practices when deploying containers (same UID, different UID per > container, etc) > > > > As we adopt LXD more and more in our DC designs, it becomes increasingly > important for our organization to leverage best practices from the industry > experts. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Ron > > > > > > On Apr 25, 2017, at 1:50 PM, Stéphane Graber <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hey there, > >> > >> We know that not everyone enjoys mailing-lists and searching through > >> mailing-list archives and would rather use a platform that's dedicated > >> to discussion and support. > >> > >> We don't know exactly how many of you would prefer using something like > >> that instead of the mailing-list or how many more people are out there > >> who would benefit from such a platform. > >> > >> But we're giving it a shot and will see how things work out over the > >> next couple of months. If we see little interest, we'll just kill it off > >> and revert to using just the lxc-users list. If we see it take off, we > >> may start recommending it as the preferred place to get support and > >> discuss LXC/LXD/LXCFS. > >> > >> > >> The new site is at: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org > >> > >> > >> We support both Github login as well as standalone registration, so that > >> should make it easy for anyone interested to be able to post questions > >> and content. > >> > >> The site is configured to self-moderate, so active users who post good > >> content and help others will automatically get more privileges. That > >> should let the community shape how this space works rather than have me > >> and the core team babysit it :) > >> > >> > >> Discourse (the engine we use for this) supports notifications by e-mail > >> as well as responses and topic creation by e-mail. So for those of you > >> who don't like dealing with web stuff, you can tweak the e-mail settings > >> in your account and then interact with it almost entirely through > >> e-mails. > >> > >> Just a note on that bit, the plaintext version of those e-mails isn't so > >> great right now, it's not properly wrapped, contains random spacing and > >> the occasional html. I subscribed myself to receive all notifications > >> and will try to tweak the discourse e-mail code for those of us who use > >> mutt or other text-based clients. > >> > >> > >> Anyway, please feel free to post your questions over there, share > >> stories on what you're doing with LXC/LXD/LXCFS, ... > >> > >> We just ask that bug reports remain on Github. If a support question > >> turns out to be a bug, we'll file one for you on Github or ask for you > >> to go file one there (similar to what we've been doing on this list). > >> > >> > >> Hope this is a useful addition to our community! > >> > >> Stéphane > >> _______________________________________________ > >> lxc-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lxc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users >
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