Canonical packages LXD as a snap package.
Other distributions can package LXD in their favorite packaging format, and some do.
Some developers are trying to package for Debian. The work is in progress at https://wiki.debian.org/LXD
Some developers are trying to package for Debian. The work is in progress at https://wiki.debian.org/LXD
The following distributions package LXD (that I know of):
* Void Linux
* Alpine Linux
* Arch Linux
* Gentoo
Some of those are more suitable for production installs than others, but if you know what you are doing and manage your deployments well, all of them could work.
I've been looking into .deb packaging for Caddy but it really feels like they require us to jump through too many hoops to make it happen. I'd much rather just ship a prebuilt binary.
Security. Dynamically linking stuff is always going to be better than statically linking. Do you trust upstream to keep track of security issues and rebuild in the absurd dependency tree that is Golang software? Or the multi-year old effort which is the current Debian security team?
The reason why it's absurdly complicated is solely on the Golang team, not Debian.