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Stéphane Graber
28 April 2015

Getting started with LXD – the container lightervisor

Article Cloud and server

Introduction For the past 6 months, Serge Hallyn, Tycho Andersen, Chuck Short, Ryan Harper and myself have been very busy working on a new container project called LXD. Ubuntu 15.04, due to be released this Thursday, will contain LXD 0.7 in its repository. This is still the early days and while we’re confident LXD 0.7

Stéphane Graber
28 April 2015

Mark Baker
22 April 2015

Here comes Kilo and 15.04! Containers will never be the same again!

Article Cloud and server

Today Ubuntu 15.04, codenamed Vivid Vervet, is released with a host of new features for clouds and servers. 15.04 comes a full year since the last Long Term Support (LTS) release and a year before the next LTS so represents a milestone in which we bring in and start to settle down features we want

Mark Baker
22 April 2015

Canonical
20 March 2015

Installing LXD and the command line tool

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu server As LXD evolves quite rapidly, we recommend Ubuntu users use our PPA: add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-lxc/lxd-stable apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install lxd The package creates a new “lxd” group which contains all users allowed to talk to lxd over the local unix socket. All...

Canonical
20 March 2015

Tom Callway
2 March 2015

Introducing lxcfs

Article Cloud and server

Last year around this time, we announced the availability of cgmanager, a daemon allowing users and programs to easily administer and delegate cgroups over a dbus interface. It was key to supporting nested containers and unprivileged users. While its dbus interface turned out to have tremendous benefits (I wasn’t sold...

Tom Callway
2 March 2015

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