While things sometimes slow down during summer while we take a well-deserved break, the LXD team stuck to our usual monthly release schedule delivering two new feature releases.
We completed several bigger features from our roadmap, as well as some usual user experience improvements and bug fixes.
Let’s take a look at what’s new in LXD 5.16 and 5.17.
LXD 5.16 – Launch a VM from an ISO, extract IPAM information, modify entity properties
- It is now possible to upload ISO image files as custom storage volumes. These can then be attached to a virtual machine as a bootable CD disk allowing simplified installation of custom operating systems from a “library” of custom ISO volumes.
- LXD deployments allocate and consume IP addresses for a variety of purposes. But until now there was no simple way for external systems (such as IPAM applications) to identify and track the usage of these addresses. LXD now introduces a new unified endpoint…
