Official Ubuntu LXD images for PPC64LE post move to Canonical

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Hey there! I just across the blog post that announces the move of LXD under Canonical. One point under that blog concerns me. Under the expected changes section is a point that reads

Image building for Linux Containers will no longer be relying on systems provided by Canonical, limiting image building to x86_64 and aarch64.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but does this mean Ubuntu will no longer provide LXD images for the Power (ppc64le) architecture?

Thanks!

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Canonical provide the official Ubuntu images via the ubuntu: remote, to see whats available use:

lxc image list ubuntu: | grep ppc64le

There have been no changes there, and indeed there are Ubuntu images for ppc64le available.

The announcement was only in relation to the images provided from the images: remote (which is not maintained by Canonical).

And it doesn’t appear that there are any ppc64le images there anymore:

lxc image list images: | grep ppc64le
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Yeah, I figured that was the case but didn’t want to leave it to chance! Thanks for the confirmation @tomp!

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