Build providers

[A333]

Seems the PR is merged in master and will be part of the coming 7.5.3 release

[thymythos]

@mr_cal

There’s been some improvements to how snapcraft interfaces with providers that I’d like to document. Notably:

1. core22 snaps use lxd by default when building on linux systems
2. The default provider can be configured with snap set provider=<provider>
3. snapcraft will ask the user if it can install lxd or multipass

I believe this page is the right place, but rather than just focusing on lxd, I’d like to broaden it to talking about lxd, multipass, and how to configure snapcraft to choose one or the other.

Any concerns with me renaming this page from “Build on LXD” to something like “Building with LXD and Multipass”?

It seems that there is no such configuration option for the snapcraft snap:

# snap get snapcraft         
Error: snap "snapcraft" has no configuration

[mr_cal]

There is no config value set by default, so you will get that error message until you set a provider with snap set snapcraft provider=<provider>.