Blog posts tagged
"docker"

95 posts


Stéphane Graber
12 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Remote hosts and container migration [6/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the sixth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Remote protocolsLXD 2.0 supports two protocols:LXD 1.0 API: That’s the REST API used between the clients and a LXD daemon as well as between LXD daemons when copying/moving images and containers.Simplestreams: The Simplestreams protocol is a read-only, image-only...

Stéphane Graber
12 April 2016


Stéphane Graber
30 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Resource control [4/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the fourth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Available resource limitsLXD offers a variety of resource limits. Some of those are tied to the container itself, like memory quotas, CPU limits and I/O priorities. Some are tied to a particular device instead, like I/O bandwidth or disk usage limits.As with all...

Stéphane Graber
30 March 2016


Stéphane Graber
22 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Your first LXD container [3/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the third blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.As there are a lot of commands involved with managing LXD containers, this post is rather long. If you’d instead prefer a quick step-by-step tour of those same commands, you can try our online demo instead!Creating and starting a new containerAs I mentioned in the...

Stéphane Graber
22 March 2016


Stéphane Graber
16 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Installing and configuring LXD [2/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the second blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Where to get LXD and how to install itThere are many ways to get the latest and greatest LXD. We recommend you use LXD with the latest LXC and Linux kernel to benefit from all its features but we try to degrade gracefully where possible to support older Linux...

Stéphane Graber
16 March 2016


Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD

Article Cloud and server

This is the first blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.A few common questions about LXDWhat’s LXD?At its simplest, LXD is a daemon which provides a REST API to drive LXC containers.Its main goal is to provide a user experience that’s similar to that of virtual machines but using Linux containers rather than hardware...

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016


Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

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

Article Ubuntu

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...

Stéphane Graber
14 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


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


Adam Israel
24 November 2015

Diving into Juju

Article Cloud and server

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

Adam Israel
24 November 2015


Jay R. Wren
10 November 2015

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

Article Cloud and server

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...

Jay R. Wren
10 November 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


James Donner
3 November 2015

ODS Tokyo: OpenStack For Everyone

Article Cloud and server

We kicked off OpenStack Summit Tokyo’s Thursday Track Day with Mark Shuttleworth’s opening address, “OpenStack for Everyone”. You can watch it yourself below” Highlights Large OpenStacks Are Choosing Ubuntu – Every six months, the OpenStack Foundation does a survey of users. In the most recent one, the number of...

James Donner
3 November 2015


Serge Hallyn
30 October 2015

Nested containers in LXD

Article Cloud and server

We’ve long considered nested containers an important use case in lxc. Lxd is no different in this regard. Lately there have been several questionsIf you are using privileged lxd containers (security.privileged: true), then the only thing you need to do is to set the security.nesting flag to true:lxc launch ubuntu...

Serge Hallyn
30 October 2015


Charles Butler
22 October 2015

Charming 2.0 – Now with 100% more awesome

Article Cloud and server

Editors Note: This post is one of many in a series covering the newpatterns in charming. This first post will be information heavy andcover a walkthrough of the techonologies at play. Video content andadditional tutorials will follow.It’s been an exciting couple of months for the Juju Charmers. If you’ve beenfollowing...

Charles Butler
22 October 2015