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"LXD"

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

The LXD 2.0: Blog post series [0/12]

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

As we are getting closer and closer to tagging the final releases of LXC, LXD and LXCFS 2.0, I figured it would be a good idea to talk a bit about everything that went into LXD since we first started that project a year and a half ago.This is going to be a blog post series similar to what I’ve done for LXC 1.0 a couple years back.The topi ...

Guest
1 March 2016

Juju 2.0 and LXD opens a whole new dimension to developing BI apps

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

I’ve been itching to write this post since I got back from Config Mgmt Camp in Gent a few weeks ago. The developers over at Canonical are gearing up to launch Juju 2.0. Maybe not yet a household name in the devops land but it is certainly making waves and with a company like Canonical ...

Dustin Kirkland
18 February 2016

Container World 2016: Application and Machine Containers (slides)

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

I had the opportunity to speak at Container World 2016 in Santa Clara yesterday. Thanks in part to the Netflix guys who preceded me, the room was absolutely packed!You can download a PDF of my slides here, or flip through them embedded below.I’d ...

Stéphane Graber
16 February 2016

Running snaps in LXD containers

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Introduction The LXD and AppArmor teams have been working to support loading AppArmor policies inside LXD containers for a while. This support which finally landed in the latest Ubuntu kernels now makes it possible to install snap packages. Snap packages … Continue reading → ...

Tom Callway
12 February 2016

Voting begins for OpenStack Austin talks

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

We’ve submitted several talks to the OpenStack Summit in Austin. We’ve listed them all below with links to where to vote for each talk so if you think they are interesting – please vote for them! Understanding updates to the Ubuntu Cloud Archive Speaker: Mark Baker Over 2000 organisations build OpenStack clouds using packages fromthe ...

Adam Israel
24 November 2015

Diving into Juju

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

In my last post, I introduced you to Juju and talked about how it could help you. Now I’d like to walk you through some real world examples of Juju in action. Workloads Bundles are used to represent workloads. Bundles can be simple, like the WordPress example in the previous post, or complex. OpenStack If ...

Canonical
16 November 2015

Juju and Remote LXD Host

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The team I am a part of at Canonical has been working on implementing a Juju provider for LXD. One of the goals of this provider is to improve the Juju experience when working and developing locally. You can try it yourself, but you will have to build Juju from source, the branch is available ...

Jay R. Wren
10 November 2015

Converting eth0 to br0 and getting all your LXC or LXD onto your LAN

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Wayne has a great post on the new juju lxd work. I’ve been using it a bit and it is awesome. It is super fast and I can create and destroy environments faster than creating and destroying with juju-local. One thing which I’ve done which has made all LXC and LXD instances more valuable to … Continue reading Converting eth0 to br0 and getti ...

Dean Henrichsmeyer
6 November 2015

Using LXD with a file-based ZFS pool on Ubuntu Wily

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) comes natively with some technology previously only available in PPAs. LXD is a container hypervisor that enables and facilitates extensive and powerful management of LXC containers. It’s great for dense deployments, development environments, and specifically workloads that need to be as performant as possible… ones wh ...

Dustin Kirkland
5 November 2015

LXD in the Sky with Diamonds

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Picture yourself containers on a server With systemd trees and spawned tty’s Somebody calls you, you answer quite quickly A world with the density so high – Sgt. Graber’s LXD Smarts Club Band Last week, we proudly released Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) — the final developer snapshot of the Ubuntu Server before we focus the majority ...

Canonical
5 November 2015

Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux virtualization and offers dramatic performance and density advantages over VMware ESX and Linux KVM for private and public cloud infrastructure. LXD delivers up to 15 times the density of KVM for ...

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