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Comment by CoolCold

14 hours ago

Just in case - I'm using LXD inside my WSL and it working great. BTRFS backed storage via loopfile, saves $$$.

For others, why it may be useful in regular sysadmin job:

* say doing Ansible scripting against LOCAL network is hell amount of time faster than against 300+ ms remote machines

  * note that because you can use VE snapshots, it's very easy to ensure your playbook works fine without guessing what have you modified when testing things - just do rollback to "clean" state and start over

* creating test MariaDB 3 nodes cluster - easy peasy

* multiple distros available - need to debug Haproxy from say Rocky 8 linux? Check!

These are pretty clever usecases I wouldn't have thought of. Maybe a little complex for what I do, but clever nonetheless.