The Linux Containers project, which develops tools for organizing the work of isolated containers, has announced that the container manager, LXD, will now be separately developed by Canonical. Canonical, the creator and main developer of LXD, has decided that it is more optimal to develop LXD as a corporate project rather than as an independent community project. The development of other Linux Containers projects will remain unchanged.
The code for LXD has been transferred from the repository lxc/lxd to canonical/lxd, and the main page of the project can now be found at ubuntu.com/lxd. The continuous integration infrastructure for LXD will also be transferred to Canonical servers. However, the systems provided by Canonical will no longer be used for assembling images for Linux Containers. The image assembly server used for LXC and LXD will still be available, but it will only support X86_64 and Aarch64 architectures.