Skip to main content

Blog posts tagged
"containers"

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

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

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Dustin Kirkland
18 February 2016

Container World 2016: Application and Machine Containers (slides)

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Stéphane Graber
16 February 2016

Running snaps in LXD containers

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 → ...

Dustin Kirkland
10 February 2016

Docker, Alpine, Ubuntu, and You

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Adam Israel
24 November 2015

Diving into Juju

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Jay R. Wren
10 November 2015

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

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Dustin Kirkland
5 November 2015

LXD in the Sky with Diamonds

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

James Donner
3 November 2015

ODS Tokyo: OpenStack For Everyone

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Serge Hallyn
30 October 2015

Nested containers in LXD

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Canonical
28 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day One

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 been realized in ...

  1. Previous page
  2. 15
  3. 16
  4. 17
  5. 18
  6. 19
  7. Next page