Stéphane Graber

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Software Engineer

Stéphane Graber is the former technical lead for LXD at Canonical Ltd. Stéphane has been involved with Ubuntu for years and currently sits on the Ubuntu Technical Board and Ubuntu Developer Membership board. He is a member of the Ubuntu Release team as well as an Ubuntu Archive administrator and Ubuntu Stable Release team member. Outside of his work on containers, Stéphane also has very strong networking knowledge as the former maintainer of the Ubuntu networking stack and large scale system administration knowledge from previous jobs. Stéphane is one of the organizers of the Containers mini-summit during the Linux Plumbers Conference, a regular presenter at LinuxCon and has been involved in many other Ubuntu and container specific events and hackfests.

Stéphane Graber
24 January 2018

LXD weekly status #31

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Introduction Nothing too major happened this past week. Part of the time was at an internal planning meeting and the rest have been working on clustering, preparation for 3.0 and fixing a variety of bugs. Next week the entire LXD team will be traveling to Brussels to attend a small team sprint followed by FOSDEM!

Stéphane Graber
24 January 2018

Stéphane Graber
16 January 2018

LXD weekly status #30

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Introduction The main highlight for this week was the inclusion of the new proxy device in LXD, thanks to the hard work of some University of Texas students! The rest of the time was spent fixing a number of bugs, working on various bits of kernel work, getting the upcoming clustering work to go

Stéphane Graber
16 January 2018

Stéphane Graber
8 January 2018

LXD weekly status #29

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Introduction And we’re back from the holidays! This “weekly” summary is covering everything that happened the past 3 weeks. The big highlight was the release of LXD 2.21 on the 19th of December. During the holidays, we merged quite a number of bugfixes and smaller features in LXC and LXD with the bigger feature...

Stéphane Graber
8 January 2018

Stéphane Graber
18 December 2017

LXD Weekly Status #28

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Introduction This is our last status update before we break for the holidays. On the LXD side of things, this past week saw the inclusion of a couple of minor features (–all flag and boot.stop.priority option) and quite a few bugfixes. In low level LXC, a lot of changes have been going on to improve handling of application

Stéphane Graber
18 December 2017

Stéphane Graber
12 December 2017

LXD Weekly Status #27

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Introduction This past week was incredibly busy and featureful for both LXC and LXD. We landed Infinband support in LXD, alongside new configuration keys to control the presence of /dev/lxd in the container and support for pre-migration of memory during container live-migration. That’s on top of a variety of bugfixes...

Stéphane Graber
12 December 2017

Stéphane Graber
4 December 2017

LXD Weekly Status #26

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Introduction Focus this week has been on infiniband support and more clustering related work with a number of bugfixes, cleanups and refactoring on the side. We’ve been doing some small tweaks and bugfixes on the LXD snap based on user feedback as more and more users are migrating to it. We’re also getting ready to

Stéphane Graber
4 December 2017

Stéphane Graber
27 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #25

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Introduction This week has been split between some upcoming feature work (infiniband and clustering), helping some new contributors get started with contributing to LXD and doing a lot of backports to the stable branches. Our stable branch backlog is now empty on all 3 projects and @brauner is now handling this for LXC...

Stéphane Graber
27 November 2017

Stéphane Graber
20 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #24: LXD 2.20

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The highlight of this week was the release of LXD 2.20 which introduces a number of exciting new features. LXD 2.20 should now be available everywhere through both native packages and snap. We also started the process of deprecating the various LXD PPAs, see below for details. Our next milestone is LXD 2.21 in about

Stéphane Graber
20 November 2017

Stéphane Graber
13 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #23

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Introduction The main focus this past week has been on merging a pretty large refactoring branch on top of LXD. This moves a lot of code around to make it more testable and easier to plug in a new database implementation in preparation for some clustering features. We’ve done a few minor improvements like adding

Stéphane Graber
13 November 2017

Stéphane Graber
6 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #22

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Introduction Another pretty quiet week for LXD as we keep working on a number of larger features that aren’t ready to land yet. Now that the Ubuntu 18.04 development release is open for contributions, we’re pushing LXD 2.19, LXC 2.1.1 and LXCFS 2.0.8 there which will then trickle down to our various PPAs, stable Ubuntu

Stéphane Graber
6 November 2017

Stéphane Graber
30 October 2017

LXD Weekly Status #21: Console Attach, Distribution Work, & More

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Introduction Last week @brauner and @stgraber were traveling to Prague for the Open Source Summit Europe. We got the opportunity to talk about LXD, system containers and various bits of ongoing kernel work as well as meet with a number of our users and contributors! All this travel and conference time reduced our...

Stéphane Graber
30 October 2017

Stéphane Graber
23 October 2017

LXD Weekly Status #20: Authentication, Conferences & More

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Introduction This week was busy with stable releases. All in all, we released: LXD 2.19 (feature release) LXC 1.0.11 (bugfix release) LXC 2.0.9 (bugfix release) LXC 2.1.1 (bugfix release) LXCFS 2.0.8 (bugfix release) LXD 2.0.11 (bugfix release) We’ve also merged support for external authentication in LXD, through...

Stéphane Graber
23 October 2017

Stéphane Graber
16 October 2017

LXD Weekly Status #19

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Introduction This past week, part of the team was back in New York for more planning meetings, getting the details of the next 6 months, including LXC, LXD and LXCFS 3.0 fleshed out. The rest of the team made good progress on some smaller feature work, started working on console attach for LXD, looked into

Stéphane Graber
16 October 2017

Stéphane Graber
2 October 2017

LXD Weekly Status #17

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Weekly status for the week of the 25th of September to the 1st of October 2017. Introduction This past week the entire LXD team was working together in New York city. We used this opportunity to talk about our next round of LTS releases, LXC 3.0, LXD 3.0 and LXCFS 3.0, all to be released

Stéphane Graber
2 October 2017