Blog posts tagged
"docker"

95 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


Jorge O. Castro
31 July 2015

Conducting Systems & Services: An Evening About Orchestration

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Orchestration of containers is one of the hottest topics in devops. Prior to Dockercon this year we thought it would be a great idea to bring in some of the thought leaders in this area and have a discussion of the challenges that face devops today and how solving large scale problems can help drive

Jorge O. Castro
31 July 2015


Charles Butler
30 July 2015

Juju & Kubernetes: The power of components

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While dogfooding my own work, I decided it was time to upgrade my distributeddocker services into the shiny Kubernetes charms now that 1.0 landed last week.I’ve been running my own “production” (I say in air quotes, because my 20 or somicroservices

Charles Butler
30 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


Matt Bruzek
21 July 2015

Introducing Kubernetes version 1.0!

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A big congratulations to the Kubernetes project and community on releasing version 1.0 to the public! Kubernetes (a.k.a. k8s) is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts called a cluster.  Over the past six months we’ve had a small team of “container people” working to make...

Matt Bruzek
21 July 2015


Dustin Kirkland
20 July 2015

Prime Time: Docker, Juju, and Snappy Ubuntu Core

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As you probably remember from grade school math class, primes are numbers that are only divisible by 1 and themselves.  2, 3, 5, 7, and 11 are the first 5 prime numbers, for example.Many computer operations, such as public-key cryptography, depends entirely on prime numbers.  In fact, RSA encryption, invented in 1978,...

Dustin Kirkland
20 July 2015


Charles Butler
10 July 2015

Unofficial Juju Docker Images

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Using Juju in Docker for your projectsEarly this year the juju-solutions team has been experimenting with Juju inDocker – namely for isolation, and portability reasons. The Vagrant image givesa nice isolated and rebuildable environment – however the

Charles Butler
10 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