14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical today announced the availability of the LXD 2.8 pure-container hypervisor designed from the ground up to let users run unmodified Linux-based operating systems and apps with virtual machine-style operations faster than anything else on the market.
LXD 2.8 comes approximately one month after the previous maintenance update, and while it's mostly a bugfix release that patches a total of 45 issues reported by users lately, it includes a bunch of interesting improvements and new additions, such as the ability to use Weblate for its translations.
It also implements proper reporting of virtual LAN (VLAN) device types to the API (Application Programming Interface) and client, allows unprivileged users to run the dnsmasq instance that LXD uses to manage bridges, and adds support for the client to display the date when an LXC image was last used.
LXD 2.8 also makes exec sessions that are killed by a signal to report the respective signal number as part of their exit code and delivers an initial rewrite of the Go client API, which contains a brand-new API module with all REST API definitions. Check out the changelog attached below for details about all the bugs fixed in this release.
Here's how to install LXD 2.8 on your Ubuntu OS now
To install or update to LXD 2.8 on your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system, use the following commands. You can also install it on Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) using this PPA, or test drive the latest development snapshots from Git.
For Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
apt-get install lxd
For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
apt-get -t trusty-backports install lxd
Those unfamiliar with the LXD and LXC (Linux Containers) technologies, as well as LXCFS and CGManager, can find all the information they need to get started by using these products from Canonical's linuxcontainers.org website. All of them can offer a vendor neutral environment for development of Linux containers.