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matt-c-irvine
5 May 2016

What’s possible with Ubuntu on Mainframe?

Article Cloud and server

IBM Systems Magazine Webinar “Discover the Cloud and Scale Out World of Ubuntu”held on 27 April 2016 Recently announced support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on IBM LinuxONE and z Systems has created a paradigm shift in a world that often does not see much change. Systems that cannot fail, systems that the world relies on,

matt-c-irvine
5 May 2016

Stéphane Graber
18 April 2016

Directly interacting with the LXD API

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The next post in the LXD series is currently blocked on a pending kernel fix, so I figured I’d do an out of series post on how to use the LXD API directly.Setting up the LXD daemonThe LXD REST API can be accessed over either a local Unix socket or over HTTPs. The protocol in both case is identical, the only difference...

Stéphane Graber
18 April 2016

Stéphane Graber
15 April 2016

LXD 2.0: LXD in LXD [8/12]

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This is the eighth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionIn the previous post I covered how to run Docker inside LXD which is a good way to get access to the portfolio of application provided by Docker while running in the safety of the LXD environment.One use case I mentioned was offering a LXD container...

Stéphane Graber
15 April 2016

Stéphane Graber
13 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Docker in LXD [7/12]

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This is the seventh blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Why run Docker inside LXDAs I briefly covered in the first post of this series, LXD’s focus is system containers. That is, we run a full unmodified Linux distribution inside our containers. LXD for all intent and purposes doesn’t care about the workload running...

Stéphane Graber
13 April 2016

Mark Shuttleworth
13 April 2016

Nova-LXD delivers bare-metal performance on OpenStack, while Ironic delivers NSA-as-a-Service

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With the release of LXC 2.0 and LXD, we now have a pure-container hypervisor that delivers bare-metal performance with a standard Linux guest OS experience. Very low latency, very high density, and very high control of specific in-guest application processes compared to KVM and ESX make it worth checking out for...

Mark Shuttleworth
13 April 2016

Stéphane Graber
12 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Remote hosts and container migration [6/12]

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This is the sixth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Remote protocolsLXD 2.0 supports two protocols:LXD 1.0 API: That’s the REST API used between the clients and a LXD daemon as well as between LXD daemons when copying/moving images and containers.Simplestreams: The Simplestreams protocol is a read-only, image-only...

Stéphane Graber
12 April 2016

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD

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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...

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

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

Article Ubuntu

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...

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

Jay R. Wren
10 November 2015

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

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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...

Jay R. Wren
10 November 2015

Canonical
5 November 2015

Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD

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London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux virtualization and offers dramatic performance and density advantages over VMware ESX and Linux KVM for private and public cloud infrastructure. LXD delivers up to 15 times the...

Canonical
5 November 2015

Serge Hallyn
30 October 2015

Nested containers in LXD

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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...

Serge Hallyn
30 October 2015

Tom Callway
5 October 2015

[Video] An introduction to LXD, the container lighter-visor

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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.

Tom Callway
5 October 2015

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

The Fan overlay network for container addresses, from Canonical

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Today, Canonical introduces the Fan overlay network system in Ubuntu in test images for Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, delivering the fastest and most scalable address expansion mechanism in the container world. The Fan enables cloud users to grow the number of Docker and LXD containers they can address...

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

Canonical
27 May 2015

Introducing pylxd

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In part of my work for nova-compute-lxd, we use a combination of httplib, UNIX domain sockets, and JSON to talk to the LXD daemon via the REST API. Talking to various people involved in the LXD project, I have decided to split this part of nova-compute-lxd into its own project called pylxd. Pylxd is a

Canonical
27 May 2015

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