Dustin Kirkland
Ubuntu Product and Strategy
Dustin Kirkland is part of Canonical's Ubuntu Product and Strategy team, working for Mark Shuttleworth, and leading the technical strategy, road map, and life cycle of the Ubuntu Cloud and IoT commercial offerings. Formerly the CTO of Gazzang, a venture funded start-up acquired by Cloudera, Dustin designed and implemented an innovative key management system for the cloud, called zTrustee, and delivered comprehensive security for cloud and big data platforms with eCryptfs and other encryption technologies. Dustin is an active Core Developer of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, maintainer of 20+ open source projects, and the creator of Byobu, DivItUp.com, and LinuxSearch.org. A Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of 2001 graduate, Dustin lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Kim, daughters, and his Australian Shepherds, Aggie and Tiger. Dustin is also an avid home brewer.
39 posts by Dustin Kirkland
Cloud and server
Docker, Alpine, Ubuntu, and You
by Dustin Kirkland on 10 February 2016
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”,...
Cloud and server
Data Driven Analysis: /tmp on tmpfs
by Dustin Kirkland on 20 January 2016
tl;drPut /tmp on tmpfs and you’ll improve your Linux system’s I/O, reduce your carbon foot print and electricity usage, stretch the battery life of your...
Cloud and server
More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows
by Dustin Kirkland on 22 December 2015
People of earth, waving at Saturn, courtesy of NASA.“It Doesn’t Look Like Ubuntu Reached Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year”, says Michael Larabel of...
Cloud and server
LXD in the Sky with Diamonds
by Dustin Kirkland on 5 November 2015
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 –...
Cloud and server
Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015
by Dustin Kirkland on 12 August 2015
Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list...
Cloud and server
Golden Ratio calculated to 2 trillion digits, on Ubuntu, in the Cloud
by Dustin Kirkland on 10 August 2015
The Golden Ratio is one of the oldest and most visible irrational numbers known to humanity. Pi is perhaps more famous, but the Golden Ratio is found in more...
Internet of Things
Cloud and server
Prime Time: Docker, Juju, and Snappy Ubuntu Core
by Dustin Kirkland on 20 July 2015
As you probably remember from grade school math class, primes are numbers that are only divisible by 1 and themselves. 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11 are the first 5...
Cloud and server
Container-to-Container Networking: The Bits have Hit the Fan!
by Dustin Kirkland on 22 June 2015
A thing of beautyIf you read my last post, perhaps you followed the embedded instructions and ran hundreds of LXD system containers on your own Ubuntu...
Cloud and server
The Fan overlay network for container addresses, from Canonical
by Dustin Kirkland on 22 June 2015
Today, Canonical introduces the Fan overlay network system in Ubuntu in test images for Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, delivering the fastest...
Cloud and server
How many containers can you run on your machine?
by Dustin Kirkland on 11 June 2015
652 Linux containers running on a Laptop? Are you kidding me???A couple of weeks ago, at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canonical released the results of...
Cloud and server
LXD – the Linux container daemon
by Dustin Kirkland on 4 November 2014
Dustin Kirkland, Product Manager at Canonical introduces LXD (lex-dee), a new hypervisor that delivers capabilities to LXC containers that cloud users demand...