Blog posts tagged
"containers"

202 posts

Tom Callway
5 October 2015

[Video] An introduction to LXD, the container lighter-visor

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Stephane Graber gave this talk at the recent Container Camp event on Sept 11th, 2015 at the Barbican Centre, London. He is a long time Open Source user and contributor mostly involved in the Edubuntu project, Ubuntu itself and LTSP. He is also the project lead for LXD and LXC at Canonical.

Tom Callway
5 October 2015

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
23 September 2015

Infographic: LXD Machine containers from Ubuntu

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LXD (pronounced “lex-dee”) is a container hypervisor from Ubuntu. LXD containers look and act like virtual machines, but have the lightweight performance and scalability of process containers. You can use LXD on its own to deploy traditional workload applications, or you can use Docker containers inside LXD containers...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
23 September 2015

Dustin Kirkland
12 August 2015

Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015

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Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list of sponsors, many of them newcomers to this particular technology, teaming with energy around containers. From chroots to BSD Jails and Solaris Zones, the concepts...

Dustin Kirkland
12 August 2015

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
29 July 2015

Big Data: Moving from Complexity to Simplicity with Juju & Azure

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Last month, we collaborated with Microsoft to hold two events in Austin and Los Angeles to showcase the power of Juju on Azure. Juju embeds DevOps best practices to let other users play and integrate in order to commoditize access to big data architectures and help developers to work in that space. Join Canonical’s Strategic

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
29 July 2015

Matt Bruzek
21 July 2015

Kubernetes v1.0 is released!

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The Google Cloud Platform released version 1.0 of the Kubernetes project. The name “kubernetes” originates from Greek, meaning “helmsman” or “pilot”. Kubernetes is an open source software system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts. It handles the scheduling the nodes, and reorganizes the...

Matt Bruzek
21 July 2015

Charles Butler
21 July 2015

Launch the newly released kubernetes 1.0.0 with Juju

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Kubernetes 1.0 launched today!And in the spirit of Kubernetes reaching this major milestone, we’ve beentracking upstream development to enable a strong story across the two perspectivesa user can enter the container cluster management space: as a co

Charles Butler
21 July 2015

Jorge O. Castro
6 July 2015

Juju at Dockercon 2015

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Canonical sent three Juju Ecosystem developers and one Juju core developer to Dockercon 2015 in San Francisco during which we participated in a multi-company hackathon team; threw a marketing event featuring industry luminaries; and made connections with many potential charm authors and partners. We learned loads,...

Jorge O. Castro
6 July 2015

Canonical
30 June 2015

Publishing LXD images

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While some work remains to be done for ‘lxc publish’, the current support is sufficient to show a full cycle of image workload with lxd.Ubuntu wily comes with systemd by default. Sometimes you might need a wily container with upstart. And to repeatedly reproduce some tests on wily with upstart, you might want to...

Canonical
30 June 2015

Tom Callway
25 June 2015

It’s all about containers! ODS keynote

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It’s all about containers. All attention is turning to new and innovative variants of this cloud development technology. From LXC and Docker to our recent introduction, LXD – all signs point to an explosion in appetite for for containers, and the many benefits they bring to developers. Containers are revolutionizing the...

Tom Callway
25 June 2015

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

Container-to-Container Networking: The Bits have Hit the Fan!

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A thing of beautyIf you read my last post, perhaps you followed the embedded instructions and ran hundreds of LXD system containers on your own Ubuntu machine.Or perhaps you’re already a Docker enthusiast and your super savvy microservice architecture orchestrates dozens of applications among a pile of process...

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

The Fan overlay network for container addresses, from Canonical

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Today, Canonical introduces the Fan overlay network system in Ubuntu in test images for Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, delivering the fastest and most scalable address expansion mechanism in the container world. The Fan enables cloud users to grow the number of Docker and LXD containers they can address...

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

Canonical
18 June 2015

Certified Ubuntu images now optimized for Joyent Triton containers

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Joyent Expands Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure Beyond Docker, Adds Support for Container-Native Linux on Bare Metal Partners with Canonical to provide certified and supported Ubuntu images, optimized to run natively on bare metal on Triton Infrastructure Containers Joyent Inc., the container-native...

Canonical
18 June 2015

Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Deploying OpenStack from source to scalable multi-node environments

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The Juju OpenStack charms now have support for deploying OpenStack from source! This means that you can point the charms at the OpenStack git repositories/branches of your choice, whether they’re the well known upstream repos or your own modified repos, and deploy to your choice of substrate via Juju (to metal via MAAS,...

Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Dustin Kirkland
11 June 2015

How many containers can you run on your machine?

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652 Linux containers running on a Laptop?  Are you kidding me???A couple of weeks ago, at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canonical released the results of some scalability testing of Linux containers (LXC) managed by LXD.Ryan Harper and James Page presented their results — some 536 Linux containers on a very modest...

Dustin Kirkland
11 June 2015

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