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Dustin Kirkland
30 March 2016

Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers

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I’m in San Francisco this week, attending Microsoft’s Build developer conference, as a sponsored guest of Microsoft.That’s perhaps a bit odd for me, as I hadn’t used Windows in nearly 16 years. But that changed a few months ago, as I embarked on

Dustin Kirkland
30 March 2016

Stéphane Graber
30 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Resource control [4/12]

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This is the fourth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Available resource limitsLXD offers a variety of resource limits. Some of those are tied to the container itself, like memory quotas, CPU limits and I/O priorities. Some are tied to a particular device instead, like I/O bandwidth or disk usage limits.As with all...

Stéphane Graber
30 March 2016

Stéphane Graber
22 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Your first LXD container [3/12]

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This is the third blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.As there are a lot of commands involved with managing LXD containers, this post is rather long. If you’d instead prefer a quick step-by-step tour of those same commands, you can try our online demo instead!Creating and starting a new containerAs I mentioned in the...

Stéphane Graber
22 March 2016

Stéphane Graber
16 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Installing and configuring LXD [2/12]

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This is the second blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Where to get LXD and how to install itThere are many ways to get the latest and greatest LXD. We recommend you use LXD with the latest LXC and Linux kernel to benefit from all its features but we try to degrade gracefully where possible to support older Linux...

Stéphane Graber
16 March 2016

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD

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This is the first blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.A few common questions about LXDWhat’s LXD?At its simplest, LXD is a daemon which provides a REST API to drive LXC containers.Its main goal is to provide a user experience that’s similar to that of virtual machines but using Linux containers rather than hardware...

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

The LXD 2.0: Blog post series [0/12]

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As we are getting closer and closer to tagging the final releases of LXC, LXD and LXCFS 2.0, I figured it would be a good idea to talk a bit about everything that went into LXD since we first started that project a year and a half ago.This is going to be a blog post series similar to what I’ve done for LXC 1.0 a couple...

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

Guest
1 March 2016

Juju 2.0 and LXD opens a whole new dimension to developing BI apps

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I’ve been itching to write this post since I got back from Config Mgmt Camp in Gent a few weeks ago. The developers over at Canonical are gearing up to launch Juju 2.0. Maybe not yet a household name in the devops land but it is certainly making waves and with a company like Canonical

Guest
1 March 2016

Dustin Kirkland
18 February 2016

Container World 2016: Application and Machine Containers (slides)

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I had the opportunity to speak at Container World 2016 in Santa Clara yesterday. Thanks in part to the Netflix guys who preceded me, the room was absolutely packed!You can download a PDF of my slides here, or flip through them embedded below.I’d

Dustin Kirkland
18 February 2016

Stéphane Graber
16 February 2016

Running snaps in LXD containers

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Introduction The LXD and AppArmor teams have been working to support loading AppArmor policies inside LXD containers for a while. This support which finally landed in the latest Ubuntu kernels now makes it possible to install snap packages. Snap packages … Continue reading →

Stéphane Graber
16 February 2016

Tom Callway
12 February 2016

Voting begins for OpenStack Austin talks

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We’ve submitted several talks to the OpenStack Summit in Austin. We’ve listed them all below with links to where to vote for each talk so if you think they are interesting – please vote for them! Understanding updates to the Ubuntu Cloud Archive Speaker: Mark Baker Over 2000 organisations build OpenStack clouds using...

Tom Callway
12 February 2016

Adam Israel
24 November 2015

Diving into Juju

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In my last post, I introduced you to Juju and talked about how it could help you. Now I’d like to walk you through some real world examples of Juju in action. Workloads Bundles are used to represent workloads. Bundles can be simple, like the WordPress example in the previous post, or complex. OpenStack If

Adam Israel
24 November 2015

Canonical
16 November 2015

Juju and Remote LXD Host

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The team I am a part of at Canonical has been working on implementing a Juju provider for LXD. One of the goals of this provider is to improve the Juju experience when working and developing locally. You can try it yourself, but you will have to build Juju from source, the branch is available

Canonical
16 November 2015

Jay R. Wren
10 November 2015

Converting eth0 to br0 and getting all your LXC or LXD onto your LAN

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Wayne has a great post on the new juju lxd work. I’ve been using it a bit and it is awesome. It is super fast and I can create and destroy environments faster than creating and destroying with juju-local. One thing which I’ve done which has made all LXC and LXD instances more valuable to … Continue reading Converting...

Jay R. Wren
10 November 2015

Dean Henrichsmeyer
6 November 2015

Using LXD with a file-based ZFS pool on Ubuntu Wily

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Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) comes natively with some technology previously only available in PPAs. LXD is a container hypervisor that enables and facilitates extensive and powerful management of LXC containers. It’s great for dense deployments, development environments, and specifically workloads that need to be as performant...

Dean Henrichsmeyer
6 November 2015

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