Blog posts tagged
"containers"

202 posts


Michael Iatrou
26 January 2018

LXD: five easy pieces

Article Cloud and server

Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants. LXD optimizes resource allocation and utilization for Kubernetes clusters, modernizes workload management in HPC infrastructure and streamlines lift and shift for...

Michael Iatrou
26 January 2018


Stéphane Graber
24 January 2018

LXD weekly status #31

Article Cloud and server

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

Article Cloud and server

  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


James Donner
21 December 2017

Keynote: Maximizing developer velocity with containers

Article Cloud and server

  Containers are one of the most exciting technologies in the cloud right now. But when it comes to your IT strategy, where is the best place to start? With so many different options and configurations, it’s critical that you find the best possible strategy for your software stack. To answer these questions, Canonical’s VP

James Donner
21 December 2017


Stéphane Graber
18 December 2017

LXD Weekly Status #28

Article Cloud and server

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


Canonical
5 December 2017

Canonical and Rancher Labs announce Kubernetes Cloud Native Platform

News Canonical announcements

Canonical and Rancher Labs announce joint Kubernetes Cloud Native Platform offering Kubecon, Austin, Texas –  5th Dec: Canonical, in partnership with Rancher Labs today announce a turn-key application delivery platform built on Ubuntu, Kubernetes, and Rancher 2.0. The new Cloud Native Platform will make it easy for...

Canonical
5 December 2017


Canonical
2 December 2017

Introduction to Cloud Native Platform

Webinar Cloud and server

The Cloud Native Platform is a offered in partnership between Canonical and Rancher Labs. The Cloud Native Platform is a turn-key application delivery platform, built on Ubuntu, Kubernetes, and Rancher. This presentation covers: * An introduction to Kubernetes for the enterprise as offered by Canonical * An introduction...

Canonical
2 December 2017


Stéphane Graber
20 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #24: LXD 2.20

Article Cloud and server

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

Article Cloud and server

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

Article Cloud and server

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


Konstantinos Tsakalozos
1 November 2017

Heptio Contour on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes

Article Cloud and server

I read the Hacker News post Heptio Contour and I thought “Cool! A project from our friends at Heptio, lets see what they got for us”. I wont lie to you, at first I was a bit disappointed because there was no special mention for Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) but I understand, I am asking too much :). Let me...

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
1 November 2017


Stéphane Graber
30 October 2017

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

Article Cloud and server

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

Article Cloud and server

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

Article Cloud and server

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