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Blog posts tagged
"docker"

Stéphane Graber
13 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Docker in LXD [7/12]

Cloud and server Article

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 in the container. I ...

Mark Shuttleworth
13 April 2016

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

Cloud and server Article

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 large-scale Linux virtuali ...

Stéphane Graber
12 April 2016

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

Cloud and server Article

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 protocol used by bo ...

Stéphane Graber
30 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Resource control [4/12]

Cloud and server Article

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 container itself, like memory quotas, CPU limits and I/O priorities. Some are tied to a particular device instead, like I/O bandwidth or disk usage limits.As with all LXD configuration, ...

Stéphane Graber
22 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Your first LXD container [3/12]

Cloud and server Article

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 you’d instead prefer a quick step-by-step tour of those same commands, you can try our online demo instead!Creating and starting a new containerAs I mentioned in the previous posts, th ...

Stéphane Graber
16 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Installing and configuring LXD [2/12]

Cloud and server Article

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 recommend you use LXD with the latest LXC and Linux kernel to benefit from all its features but we try to degrade gracefully where possible to support older Linux distributions.The Ubun ...

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD

Cloud and server Article

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 virtualization. How ...

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

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

Ubuntu Article

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 years back.The topi ...

Dustin Kirkland
18 February 2016

Container World 2016: Application and Machine Containers (slides)

Cloud and server Article

I had the opportunity to speak at Container World 2016 in Santa Clara yesterday.  Thanks in part to the Netflix guys who preceded me, the room was absolutely packed!You can download a PDF of my slides here, or flip through them embedded below.I’d ...

Dustin Kirkland
10 February 2016

Docker, Alpine, Ubuntu, and You

Cloud and server Article

There’s no shortage of excitement, controversy, and readership, any time you can work “Docker” into a headline these days.  Perhaps a bit like “Donald Trump”, but for CIO tech blogs and IT news — a real hot button.  Hey, look, I even did it myself in the title of this post!Sometimes an article even starts out about CoreOS, but gets divert ...

Adam Israel
24 November 2015

Diving into Juju

Cloud and server Article

In my last post, I introduced you to Juju and talked about how it could help you. Now I’d like to walk you through some real world examples of Juju in action. Workloads Bundles are used to represent workloads. Bundles can be simple, like the WordPress example in the previous post, or complex. OpenStack If ...

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