Stateful services with LXC

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Hello everybody,

we’ve integrated LXC into Kubernetes to handle stateful services in a way which works for us on a bigger scale. We called that implementation “LXE”, cause the management daemon of LXC is calles LXD.

There are 2 main reasons to do that:

  1. we have the policy: always online - restart is not an acceptable side effect (i.e. in case of updating docker daemon or bug in docker daemon)
  2. we want muteable containers to avoid container restarts as much as possible (see 1)

My question is, if there is a community need for that and on the other side if a contribution for the CRI spec itself is welcome. For us it’s the only way to handle stateful services on a bigger scale in a good way.

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