On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:29 PM, Iain Grant <i...@panfantastic.co.uk> wrote: > Seriously? Ubuntu Advantage? > > Who really needs that If you have a good sysadmin team...? >
If you are big business that heavily depends on the IT infrastructure, you pay for these things. If you are smaller business, then you may be able to go through a downtime of several hours or a day without much damage. Simos > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Sean McNamara <smc...@gmail.com> 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 <rkelley...@gmail.com> 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 <stgra...@ubuntu.com> >> > 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 >> >> lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org >> >> http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > lxc-users mailing list >> > lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org >> > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users >> _______________________________________________ >> lxc-users mailing list >> lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org >> http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
