LXD
Canonical announcements
Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities
by Canonical on 13 April 2017
Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and...
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USB hotplug with LXD containers
by Stéphane Graber on 29 March 2017
USB devices in containersIt can be pretty useful to pass USB devices to a container. Be that some measurement equipment in a lab or maybe more commonly, an...
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NVidia CUDA inside a LXD container
by Stéphane Graber on 28 March 2017
GPU inside a container LXD supports GPU passthrough but this is implemented in a very different way than what you would expect from a virtual machine. With...
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Run your own LXD demo server
by Stéphane Graber on 6 March 2017
The LXD demo serverThe LXD demo server is the service behind https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it.We use it to showcase LXD by leading visitors through an...
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The no-nonsense way to accelerate your business with containers
by Cezzaine Zaher on 27 February 2017
Container technology has brought about a step-change in virtualisation technology. Organisations implementing containers see considerable opportunities to...
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LXD client on Windows and macOS
by Stéphane Graber on 27 February 2017
LXD on other operating systems? While LXD and especially its API have been designed in a mostly OS-agnostic way, the only OS supported for the daemon right...
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LXD 2.0: Debugging and contributing to LXD [12/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 27 February 2017
This is the twelfth and last blog post in this series about LXD 2.0. Introduction This is finally it! The last blog post in this series of 12 that started...
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Ubuntu Core in LXD containers
by Stéphane Graber on 27 February 2017
What’s Ubuntu Core? Ubuntu Core is a version of Ubuntu that’s fully transactional and entirely based on snap packages. Most of the system is read-only. All...
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HOWTO: Automatically import your public SSH keys into LXD Instances
by Dustin Kirkland on 25 February 2017
Just another reason why LXD is so awesome…You can easily configure your own cloud-init configuration into your LXD instance profile.In my case, I want...
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LXD on Debian (using snapd)
by Stéphane Graber on 22 February 2017
Introduction So far all my blog posts about LXD have been assuming an Ubuntu host with LXD installed from packages, as a snap or from source. But LXD is...
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Running Kubernetes inside LXD
by Stéphane Graber on 20 February 2017
Introduction For those who haven’t heard of Kubernetes before, it’s defined by the upstream project as: Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating...
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Network management with LXD (2.3+)
by Stéphane Graber on 14 February 2017
Introduction When LXD 2.0 shipped with Ubuntu 16.04, LXD networking was pretty simple. You could either use that “lxdbr0” bridge that “lxd init” would have...