Blog posts tagged
"LXD"

151 posts


Canonical
1 February 2018

Externally exposing a LXD-based Kubernetes service

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This article originally appeared on Rye Terrell’s blog   So you’ve conjured up a Kubernetes cluster on top of LXD on your dev box. Cool. You’ve created a deployment, you’ve got a service directing traffic to it, and you can query it from your box. Sweet. Time to demo this to your boss! “Hey boss,”

Canonical
1 February 2018


Stéphane Graber
29 January 2018

LXD weekly status #32

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The focus of this week has been preparing for our trip to Brussels where we’ll be spending 3 days all working together on LXD before attending and presenting at FOSDEM. @brauner is making good progress on preparing for the liblxc 3.0 release, moving all the various language bindings and tools out of the main tree

Stéphane Graber
29 January 2018


Michael Iatrou
26 January 2018

LXD: five easy pieces

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Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants. LXD optimizes resource allocation and utilization for Kubernetes clusters, modernizes workload management in HPC infrastructure and streamlines lift and shift for...

Michael Iatrou
26 January 2018


Stéphane Graber
24 January 2018

LXD weekly status #31

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Introduction Nothing too major happened this past week. Part of the time was at an internal planning meeting and the rest have been working on clustering, preparation for 3.0 and fixing a variety of bugs. Next week the entire LXD team will be traveling to Brussels to attend a small team sprint followed by FOSDEM!

Stéphane Graber
24 January 2018


Stéphane Graber
16 January 2018

LXD weekly status #30

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  Introduction The main highlight for this week was the inclusion of the new proxy device in LXD, thanks to the hard work of some University of Texas students! The rest of the time was spent fixing a number of bugs, working on various bits of kernel work, getting the upcoming clustering work to go

Stéphane Graber
16 January 2018


Stéphane Graber
18 December 2017

LXD Weekly Status #28

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Introduction This is our last status update before we break for the holidays. On the LXD side of things, this past week saw the inclusion of a couple of minor features (–all flag and boot.stop.priority option) and quite a few bugfixes. In low level LXC, a lot of changes have been going on to improve handling of application

Stéphane Graber
18 December 2017


Stéphane Graber
27 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #25

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Introduction This week has been split between some upcoming feature work (infiniband and clustering), helping some new contributors get started with contributing to LXD and doing a lot of backports to the stable branches. Our stable branch backlog is now empty on all 3 projects and @brauner is now handling this for LXC...

Stéphane Graber
27 November 2017


Stéphane Graber
20 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #24: LXD 2.20

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The highlight of this week was the release of LXD 2.20 which introduces a number of exciting new features. LXD 2.20 should now be available everywhere through both native packages and snap. We also started the process of deprecating the various LXD PPAs, see below for details. Our next milestone is LXD 2.21 in about

Stéphane Graber
20 November 2017


Stéphane Graber
6 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #22

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Introduction Another pretty quiet week for LXD as we keep working on a number of larger features that aren’t ready to land yet. Now that the Ubuntu 18.04 development release is open for contributions, we’re pushing LXD 2.19, LXC 2.1.1 and LXCFS 2.0.8 there which will then trickle down to our various PPAs, stable Ubuntu

Stéphane Graber
6 November 2017


Stéphane Graber
23 October 2017

LXD Weekly Status #20: Authentication, Conferences & More

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Introduction This week was busy with stable releases. All in all, we released: LXD 2.19 (feature release) LXC 1.0.11 (bugfix release) LXC 2.0.9 (bugfix release) LXC 2.1.1 (bugfix release) LXCFS 2.0.8 (bugfix release) LXD 2.0.11 (bugfix release) We’ve also merged support for external authentication in LXD, through...

Stéphane Graber
23 October 2017


Stéphane Graber
16 October 2017

LXD Weekly Status #19

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Introduction This past week, part of the team was back in New York for more planning meetings, getting the details of the next 6 months, including LXC, LXD and LXCFS 3.0 fleshed out. The rest of the team made good progress on some smaller feature work, started working on console attach for LXD, looked into

Stéphane Graber
16 October 2017


Richard Harding
16 October 2017

Think Cloud portable! Let Applications drive the Model

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In our last intro to Modeling with Juju post we didn’t pay any attention to the hardware needed to run our workloads. We ran with Juju default values for what the hardware characteristics of the cloud instances should be. Rather than define a bunch of YAML about each machine needed to run the infrastructure, Juju picks...

Richard Harding
16 October 2017


James Page
13 October 2017

OpenStack Development Summary – October 13, 2017

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Welcome to the seventh Ubuntu OpenStack development summary! This summary is intended to be a regular communication of activities and plans happening in and around Ubuntu OpenStack, covering but not limited to the distribution and deployment of OpenStack on Ubuntu. If there is something that you would like to see...

James Page
13 October 2017


Michael Iatrou
12 October 2017

Kubernetes the not so easy way

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A few years ago, the simplest method to deploy and operate Kubernetes on Ubuntu was with conjure-up. Whether the substrate is a public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) private virtualized environments (VMware) or bare metal, conjure-up will allow you to quickly install a fully functional, production-grade Kubernetes. But...

Michael Iatrou
12 October 2017