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Mesosphere announce open source project backed by Canonical
by John Zannos on 19 April 2016
Today Mesosphere announced the open source release of the DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) Project, backed by dozens of partners including Canonical. DC/OS...
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Docker 1.10 with Fan Networking in Ubuntu 16.04
by Dustin Kirkland on 15 April 2016
I’m thrilled to introduce Docker 1.10.3, supported on every Ubuntu architecture, for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and announce the General Availability of Ubuntu Fan...
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LXD 2.0: LXD in LXD [8/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 15 April 2016
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...
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LXD 2.0: Docker in LXD [7/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 13 April 2016
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...
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Nova-LXD delivers bare-metal performance on OpenStack, while Ironic delivers NSA-as-a-Service
by Mark Shuttleworth on 13 April 2016
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....
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LXD 2.0: Remote hosts and container migration [6/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 12 April 2016
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...
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LXD networking: lxdbr0 explained
by Canonical on 7 April 2016
Recently, LXD stopped depending on lxc, and thus moved to using its own bridge, called lxdbr0. lxdbr0 behaves significantly differently than lxcbr0: it is...
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LXD 2.0: Image management [5/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 1 April 2016
This is the fifth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Container imagesIf you’ve used LXC before, you probably remember those LXC “templates”, basically...
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LXD 2.0: Resource control [4/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 30 March 2016
This is the fourth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Available resource limitsLXD offers a variety of resource limits. Some of those are tied to the...
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LXD 2.0: Your first LXD container [3/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 22 March 2016
This is the third blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.As there are a lot of commands involved with managing LXD containers, this post is rather long. If...
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LXD 2.0: Installing and configuring LXD [2/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 16 March 2016
This is the second blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Where to get LXD and how to install itThere are many ways to get the latest and greatest LXD. We...
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LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD
by Stéphane Graber on 14 March 2016
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...