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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 distributions.The Ubun ...
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 virtualization. How ...
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 years back.The topi ...
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 ...
There’s no shortage of excitement, controversy, and readership, any time you can work “Docker” into a headline these days. Perhaps a bit like “Donald Trump”, but for CIO tech blogs and IT news — a real hot button. Hey, look, I even did it myself in the title of this post!Sometimes an article even starts out about CoreOS, but gets divert ...
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 ...
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 eth0 to br0 and getti ...
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 ...
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 participants doubled and t ...
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 nestc1 -c security.nest ...
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 the Juju mailing lis ...
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. ...
