Weekly news #382

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Weekly status for the week of 3rd February to 9th February.

Introduction

This past week LXD received several bug fixes, as well as new features. The highlight of the past week is added support for Pure Storage storage driver.

Thanks to all the contributors!

Pure Storage storage driver

LXD now supports new storage driver pure, allowing interaction with remote Pure Storage arrays. Connections with the remote storage can be established using either NVMe/TCP (default) or iSCSI. Note that iSCSI requires iscsiadm to be installed on the LXD host.

The following command demonstrates how to create a storage pool named my-pool that connects to a Pure Storage storage array using NVMe/TCP.

lxc storage create my-pool pure \
    pure.gateway=https://<pure-storage-address> \
    pure.api.token=<pure-storage-api-token> \
    pure.mode=nvme

Support for storage driver pure is also included in LXD UI.

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Documentation: Storage drivers - Pure Storage

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where setting loki.api.url to an inaccessible URL could block the caller for up to 10 minutes.

  • Fixed an issue where mount options for filesystem volumes were not applied to hotplugged VM disk devices by the lxd-agent.

  • Fixed an issue where an OVN network’s uplink volatile IP could be set outside the allowed ranges.

  • Fixed an issue where LXD allowed authentication via OIDC without requiring an email address claim, causing an identity to be created with a blank identifier.

  • Fixed an issue where the MAC address of a physical network interface was not properly parsed, preventing instances from starting when using agent.nic_config option.

LXD images

Changes on images: simplestream remote:

  • Added Fedora 41
  • Added openWRT 24.10

All changes

The items listed below is all of the work which happened over the past week and which will be included in the next release.

LXD

LXD UI

LXD Charm

  • Nothing to report this week

LXD Terraform provider

PyLXD

Distribution work

This section is used to track the work done in downstream Linux distributions to ship the latest LXD as well as work to get various software to work properly inside containers.

Ubuntu

  • Nothing to report this week.

LXD snap

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