Blog posts tagged
"LXD"

151 posts

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

Canonical
5 November 2015

Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD

Article Cloud and server

London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux virtualization and offers dramatic performance and density advantages over VMware ESX and Linux KVM for private and public cloud infrastructure. LXD delivers up to 15 times the...

Canonical
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

Canonical
29 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Two

Article Cloud and server

The keynote sessions that kicked off the second day of OpenStack Summit Tokyo continued the theme of containers, but got a little deeper into the business drivers, and the purposes of why we’re building scalable clouds. Resonant Japan talked about accelerating business operations, cost reductions, and supporting the...

Canonical
29 October 2015

Canonical
28 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day One

Article Cloud and server

Yesterday was our first full day here at OpenStack Summit Tokyo, and the themes seemed pretty clear. Increased focus on applications and containers – containers – containers. The best part about that is how validating it feels. We’ve been focused on improving the usability of containers for several years now, and that’s...

Canonical
28 October 2015

Guest
26 October 2015

An nova-compute-lxd update

Article Cloud and server

For the past couple of months, we have been working hard on adding new features to nova-compute-lxd (nclxd). The new features that have been added go beyond starting and stopping containers, to make it more useful for day to day use. An example is container migration: The above video shows a container migrating between two

Guest
26 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

Tom Callway
5 October 2015

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

Article Cloud and server

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

Article Cloud and server

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

Article Cloud and server

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

Canonical
30 June 2015

Publishing LXD images

Article Cloud and server

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

Videos Cloud and server

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

Canonical
24 June 2015

Introducing the Fan – simpler container networking

Article Cloud and server

Canonical just announced a new, free, and very cool way to provide thousands of IP addresses to each of your VMs on AWS. Check out the fan networking on Ubuntu wiki page to get started, or read Dustin’s excellent fan walkthrough. Carry on here for a simple description of this happy little dose of awesome.

Canonical
24 June 2015

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