Blog posts tagged
"containers"

202 posts


Canonical
2 March 2017

Mobile World Congress 2017: day four recap

Article Cloud and server

Today was the final day for Mobile World Congress 2017.  It has been a long, hectic, but exciting week. For starters, we had a record number of visitors to Canonical’s Ubuntu booth. The mixture was consumer targeting businesses looking for device updates, IoT advances, and innovation around artificial intelligence (AI)...

Canonical
2 March 2017


Cezzaine Zaher
27 February 2017

The no-nonsense way to accelerate your business with containers

White paper Cloud and server

Container technology has brought about a step-change in virtualisation technology. Organisations implementing containers see considerable opportunities to improve agility, efficiency, speed, and manageability within their IT environments. Containers promise to improve datacenter efficiency and performance without having...

Cezzaine Zaher
27 February 2017


Stéphane Graber
27 February 2017

LXD client on Windows and macOS

Article Cloud and server

LXD on other operating systems? While LXD and especially its API have been designed in a mostly OS-agnostic way, the only OS supported for the daemon right now is Linux (and a rather recent Linux at that). However since all … Continue reading →

Stéphane Graber
27 February 2017


Stéphane Graber
27 February 2017

LXD 2.0: Debugging and contributing to LXD [12/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the twelfth and last blog post in this series about LXD 2.0. Introduction This is finally it! The last blog post in this series of 12 that started almost a year ago. If you followed the series from the beginning, … Continue reading →

Stéphane Graber
27 February 2017


Stéphane Graber
27 February 2017

Ubuntu Core in LXD containers

Article Cloud and server

What’s Ubuntu Core? Ubuntu Core is a version of Ubuntu that’s fully transactional and entirely based on snap packages. Most of the system is read-only. All installed applications come from snap packages and all updates are done using transactions. Meaning … Continue reading →

Stéphane Graber
27 February 2017


Dustin Kirkland
25 February 2017

HOWTO: Automatically import your public SSH keys into LXD Instances

Article Cloud and server

Just another reason why LXD is so awesome…You can easily configure your own cloud-init configuration into your LXD instance profile.In my case, I want cloud-init to automatically ssh-import-id kirkland, to fetch my keys from Launchpad.  Alternat

Dustin Kirkland
25 February 2017


Dustin Kirkland
24 February 2017

Dustin Kirkland: The questions that you’re afraid to ask about containers

Article Cloud and server

Yesterday, I delivered a talk to a lively audience at ContainerWorld in Santa Clara, California.If I measured “the most interesting slides” by counting “the number of people who took a picture of the slide”, then by far “the most interesting slides” ar

Dustin Kirkland
24 February 2017


Stéphane Graber
22 February 2017

LXD on Debian (using snapd)

Article Cloud and server

Introduction So far all my blog posts about LXD have been assuming an Ubuntu host with LXD installed from packages, as a snap or from source. But LXD is perfectly happy to run on any Linux distribution which has the … Continue reading →

Stéphane Graber
22 February 2017


Stéphane Graber
20 February 2017

Running Kubernetes inside LXD

Article Cloud and server

Introduction For those who haven’t heard of Kubernetes before, it’s defined by the upstream project as: Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical … Continue reading →

Stéphane Graber
20 February 2017


Stéphane Graber
14 February 2017

Network management with LXD (2.3+)

Article Cloud and server

Introduction When LXD 2.0 shipped with Ubuntu 16.04, LXD networking was pretty simple. You could either use that “lxdbr0” bridge that “lxd init” would have you configure, provide your own or just use an existing physical interface for your containers. … Continue reading →

Stéphane Graber
14 February 2017


James Donner
3 February 2017

Cloud Chatter: January 2017

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to the first edition of 2017. In this issue we showcase what you can expect from us and invite you to meet with us at Mobile World Congress if you’re planning to be in Barcelona. We share our latest eBook on server provisioning and what Network Admins and IT Pros need to know to

James Donner
3 February 2017


Samuel Cozannet
30 January 2017

Installing a DIY bare metal GPU cluster for Kubernetes

Article Cloud and server

I don’t know if you have ever seen one of the Orange Boxes from Canonical These are really sleek machines. They contain 10 Intel NUCs, plus an 11th one for the management. They are used as a demonstration tool for big software stacks such as OpenStack, Hadoop, and, of course, Kubernetes. They are freely available

Samuel Cozannet
30 January 2017


James Donner
27 January 2017

Deploying The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes onto AWS

Article Cloud and server

  This week, we announced the availability of release 1.5.2 of The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. This is a pure upstream kubernetes developed in collaboration with Google that works across all major public clouds and private infrastructure. We’re excited for people to try out the Canonical Distribution of...

James Donner
27 January 2017


Jorge O. Castro
24 January 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes – Release 1.5.2

Article Cloud and server

We’re proud to announce support for Kubernetes 1.5.2 in the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. This is a pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes, designed to be easily deployable to public clouds, on-premises (ie vsphere, openstack), bare metal, and developer laptops. Kubernetes 1.5.2 is a patch release comprised of...

Jorge O. Castro
24 January 2017