Dustin Kirkland

39 posts

Ubuntu Product and Strategy

Dustin Kirkland is part of Canonical's Ubuntu Product and Strategy team, working for Mark Shuttleworth, and leading the technical strategy, road map, and life cycle of the Ubuntu Cloud and IoT commercial offerings. Formerly the CTO of Gazzang, a venture funded start-up acquired by Cloudera, Dustin designed and implemented an innovative key management system for the cloud, called zTrustee, and delivered comprehensive security for cloud and big data platforms with eCryptfs and other encryption technologies. Dustin is an active Core Developer of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, maintainer of 20+ open source projects, and the creator of Byobu, DivItUp.com, and LinuxSearch.org. A Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of 2001 graduate, Dustin lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Kim, daughters, and his Australian Shepherds, Aggie and Tiger. Dustin is also an avid home brewer.

Dustin Kirkland
16 June 2016

sudo purge-old-kernels: Recover some disk space!

Article Cloud and server

If you have long-running Ubuntu systems (server or desktop), and you keep those systems up to date, you will, over time, accumulate a lot of Linux kernels.Canonical’s Ubuntu Kernel Team regularly (about once a month) provides kernel updates, patching s

Dustin Kirkland
16 June 2016

Dustin Kirkland
10 May 2016

Using containers to create the world’s fastest OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Below you can find the audio/video recording of my OpenStack Austin presentation, where I demonstrated Ubuntu OpenStack Mitaka, running on top of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, entirely within LXD machine containers. You can also download the PDF of the slide

Dustin Kirkland
10 May 2016

Dustin Kirkland
27 April 2016

Ubuntu & IBM on POWER and LinuxOne Webinar

Article Cloud and server

I’m delighted to share the slides from our joint IBM and Canonical webinar about Ubuntu on IBM POWER8 and LinuxOne servers. You can download the PDF here, watch the recording here, or tab through the slides or watch the video embedded below. &nbs

Dustin Kirkland
27 April 2016

Dustin Kirkland
15 April 2016

Docker 1.10 with Fan Networking in Ubuntu 16.04

Article Cloud and server

I’m thrilled to introduce Docker 1.10.3, supported on every Ubuntu architecture, for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and announce the General Availability of Ubuntu Fan Networking!That’s Ubuntu Docker binaries and Ubuntu Docker images for:armhf (rpi2, et al. IoT devices)arm64 (Cavium, et al. servers)i686 (does anyone seriously still...

Dustin Kirkland
15 April 2016

Dustin Kirkland
14 April 2016

HOWTO: Ubuntu on Windows

Article Cloud and server

As announced last week, Microsoft and Canonical have worked together to bring Ubuntu’s userspace natively into Windows 10.As of today, Windows 10 Insiders can now take Ubuntu on Windows for a test drive! Here’s how…1) You need to have a system

Dustin Kirkland
14 April 2016

Dustin Kirkland
1 April 2016

Still have questions about Bash and Ubuntu on Windows?

Article Cloud and server

Still have questions about Ubuntu on Windows?Watch this Channel 9 session, recorded live at Build this week, hosted by Scott Hanselman, with questions answered by Windows kernel developers Russ Alexander, Ben Hillis, and myself representing Canonical a

Dustin Kirkland
1 April 2016

Dustin Kirkland
30 March 2016

Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers

Article Cloud and server

I’m in San Francisco this week, attending Microsoft’s Build developer conference, as a sponsored guest of Microsoft.That’s perhaps a bit odd for me, as I hadn’t used Windows in nearly 16 years. But that changed a few months ago, as I embarked on

Dustin Kirkland
30 March 2016

Dustin Kirkland
18 February 2016

Container World 2016: Application and Machine Containers (slides)

Article Cloud and server

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

Dustin Kirkland
18 February 2016

ZFS Licensing and Linux

Article Cloud and server

We at Canonical have conducted a legal review, including discussion with the industry’s leading software freedom legal counsel, of the licenses that apply to the Linux kernel and to ZFS.And in doing so, we have concluded that we are acting within the r

Dustin Kirkland
18 February 2016

Dustin Kirkland
16 February 2016

ZFS is the FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04!

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) is only a few short weeks away, and with it comes one of the most exciting new features Linux has seen in a very long time…ZFS — baked directly into Ubuntu — supported by Canonical.What is ZFS?ZFS is a combination of a vol

Dustin Kirkland
16 February 2016

Dustin Kirkland
10 February 2016

Docker, Alpine, Ubuntu, and You

Article Cloud and server

There’s no shortage of excitement, controversy, and readership, any time you can work “Docker” into a headline these days. Perhaps a bit like “Donald Trump”, but for CIO tech blogs and IT news — a real hot button. Hey, look, I even did it myself in the title of this post!Sometimes an article even starts out about...

Dustin Kirkland
10 February 2016

Dustin Kirkland
20 January 2016

Data Driven Analysis: /tmp on tmpfs

Article Cloud and server

tl;drPut /tmp on tmpfs and you’ll improve your Linux system’s I/O, reduce your carbon foot print and electricity usage, stretch the battery life of your laptop, extend the longevity of your SSDs, and provide stronger security.In fact, we should do that by default on Ubuntu servers and cloud images.Having tested 502...

Dustin Kirkland
20 January 2016

Dustin Kirkland
22 December 2015

More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows

Article Cloud and server

People of earth, waving at Saturn, courtesy of NASA.“It Doesn’t Look Like Ubuntu Reached Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year”, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix, in a post that it seems he’s been itching to post for months.Why the negativity?!? Are you sure? Did you count all of them?No one has. And no one can count...

Dustin Kirkland
22 December 2015

Dustin Kirkland
5 November 2015

LXD in the Sky with Diamonds

Article Cloud and server

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

Dustin Kirkland
5 November 2015