Blog posts tagged
"LXD"

151 posts

Stéphane Graber
8 June 2016

LXD 2.0: LXD and Juju [10/12]

Article Cloud and server

Juju is Canonical’s service modeling and deployment tool. It supports a very wide range of cloud providers to make it easy for you to deploy any service you want on any cloud you want.On top of that, Juju 2.0 also includes support for LXD, both for local deployments, ideal for development and as a way to co-locate...

Stéphane Graber
8 June 2016

Dustin Kirkland
10 May 2016

Using containers to create the world’s fastest OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Below you can find the audio/video recording of my OpenStack Austin presentation, where I demonstrated Ubuntu OpenStack Mitaka, running on top of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, entirely within LXD machine containers.  You can also download the PDF of the slide

Dustin Kirkland
10 May 2016

matt-c-irvine
5 May 2016

What’s possible with Ubuntu on Mainframe?

Article Cloud and server

IBM Systems Magazine Webinar “Discover the Cloud and Scale Out World of Ubuntu”held on 27 April 2016 Recently announced support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on IBM LinuxONE and z Systems has created a paradigm shift in a world that often does not see much change. Systems that cannot fail, systems that the world relies on,

matt-c-irvine
5 May 2016

Stéphane Graber
25 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Live migration [9/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the ninth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionOne of the very exciting feature of LXD 2.0, albeit experimental, is the support for container checkpoint and restore.Simply put, checkpoint/restore means that the running container state can be serialized down to disk and then restored, either on the...

Stéphane Graber
25 April 2016

Canonical
20 April 2016

Canonical unveils 6th LTS release of Ubuntu with 16.04

News Cloud and server

Introduces “snaps” for new robust, secure app format Introduces LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka Supports IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with flat pricing Steps towards converged Ubuntu across IOT, Phone, Desktop and Server Introduces ZFS and CephFS for large-scale cloud storage LONDON 20th April 2016:...

Canonical
20 April 2016

John Zannos
19 April 2016

Mesosphere announce open source project backed by Canonical

Article Cloud and server

Today Mesosphere announced the open source release of the DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) Project, backed by dozens of partners including Canonical. DC/OS supplies an operating system model for the datacenter building on the Apache Mesos environment. The DC/OS project is an open source technology and a building...

John Zannos
19 April 2016

Stéphane Graber
18 April 2016

Directly interacting with the LXD API

Article Cloud and server

The next post in the LXD series is currently blocked on a pending kernel fix, so I figured I’d do an out of series post on how to use the LXD API directly.Setting up the LXD daemonThe LXD REST API can be accessed over either a local Unix socket or over HTTPs. The protocol in both case is identical, the only difference...

Stéphane Graber
18 April 2016

Dustin Kirkland
15 April 2016

Docker 1.10 with Fan Networking in Ubuntu 16.04

Article Cloud and server

I’m thrilled to introduce Docker 1.10.3, supported on every Ubuntu architecture, for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and announce the General Availability of Ubuntu Fan Networking!That’s Ubuntu Docker binaries and Ubuntu Docker images for:armhf (rpi2, et al. IoT devices)arm64 (Cavium, et al. servers)i686 (does anyone seriously still...

Dustin Kirkland
15 April 2016

Stéphane Graber
15 April 2016

LXD 2.0: LXD in LXD [8/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the eighth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionIn the previous post I covered how to run Docker inside LXD which is a good way to get access to the portfolio of application provided by Docker while running in the safety of the LXD environment.One use case I mentioned was offering a LXD container...

Stéphane Graber
15 April 2016

Stéphane Graber
13 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Docker in LXD [7/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the seventh blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Why run Docker inside LXDAs I briefly covered in the first post of this series, LXD’s focus is system containers. That is, we run a full unmodified Linux distribution inside our containers. LXD for all intent and purposes doesn’t care about the workload running...

Stéphane Graber
13 April 2016

Mark Shuttleworth
13 April 2016

Nova-LXD delivers bare-metal performance on OpenStack, while Ironic delivers NSA-as-a-Service

Article Cloud and server

With the release of LXC 2.0 and LXD, we now have a pure-container hypervisor that delivers bare-metal performance with a standard Linux guest OS experience. Very low latency, very high density, and very high control of specific in-guest application processes compared to KVM and ESX make it worth checking out for...

Mark Shuttleworth
13 April 2016

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

Canonical
7 April 2016

LXD networking: lxdbr0 explained

Article Cloud and server

Recently, LXD stopped depending on lxc, and thus moved to using its own bridge, called lxdbr0. lxdbr0 behaves significantly differently than lxcbr0: it is ipv6 link local only by default (i.e. there is no ipv4 or ipv6 subnet configured by default), and only HTTP traffic is proxied over the network. This means that e.g. you

Canonical
7 April 2016

Stéphane Graber
1 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Image management [5/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the fifth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Container imagesIf you’ve used LXC before, you probably remember those LXC “templates”, basically shell scripts that spit out a container filesystem and a bit of configuration.Most templates generate the filesystem by doing a full distribution bootstrapping on...

Stéphane Graber
1 April 2016

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