Interesting move by Canonical. Wonder if this is related to the new GUI for LXD that Canonical released recently? Or maybe they want to bring more projects in-house after the RHEL shakeup?
How do you notice that you are not really awake yet? By thinking for several minutes about what LXD has to do with containers and then realising that you yourself had LXDE in mind.
The point is that you want management, easy ways to create images, backups, move container between hosts, orchestration, network management and sometimes not only container but also virtual machines. LXD does it all very well and if you don't want those resources you might as well use systemd-nspawn.
They've taken over Proxmox. Not sure if you're following but they have now a WebUI and the entire solution is magnitudes better than the crap Proxmox has been offering.
Oh, bullshit. The minimal interface that Ubuntu offers isn't even a pimple on the Proxmox front end, and doesn't touch the filesystem, clustering abilities and backup solution that's the equivalent of Veeam IMO.
I haven't been following, but that's actually good to hear, proxmox needs a better ui.
LXD, I suppose for the migration, but for any more complex orchestration I think you've moving to k8s or something more serious, LXD just has an odd "not enough but too much" feature set for me, I like things either push-button, or let me do it, this is kind of both.