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Blog posts tagged
"docker"


Matt Bruzek
21 July 2015

Introducing Kubernetes version 1.0!

Cloud and server Article

A big congratulations to the Kubernetes project and community on releasing version 1.0 to the public! Kubernetes (a.k.a. k8s) is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts called a cluster.  Over the past six months we’ve had a small team of “container people” working to make sure that we could del ...


Dustin Kirkland
20 July 2015

Prime Time: Docker, Juju, and Snappy Ubuntu Core

Cloud and server Article

As you probably remember from grade school math class, primes are numbers that are only divisible by 1 and themselves.  2, 3, 5, 7, and 11 are the first 5 prime numbers, for example.Many computer operations, such as public-key cryptography, depends entirely on prime numbers.  In fact, RSA encryption, invented in 1978, uses a modulo of a p ...


Charles Butler
10 July 2015

Unofficial Juju Docker Images

Cloud and server Article

Using Juju in Docker for your projectsEarly this year the juju-solutions team has been experimenting with Juju inDocker – namely for isolation, and portability reasons. The Vagrant image givesa nice isolated and rebuildable environment – however the ...


Jorge O. Castro
6 July 2015

Juju at Dockercon 2015

Cloud and server Article

Canonical sent three Juju Ecosystem developers and one Juju core developer to Dockercon 2015 in San Francisco during which we participated in a multi-company hackathon team; threw a marketing event featuring industry luminaries; and made connections with many potential charm authors and partners. We learned loads, preached a lot of good J ...


Canonical
30 June 2015

Publishing LXD images

Cloud and server Article

While some work remains to be done for ‘lxc publish’, the current support is sufficient to show a full cycle of image workload with lxd.Ubuntu wily comes with systemd by default. Sometimes you might need a wily container with upstart. And to repeatedly reproduce some tests on wily with upstart, you might want to create a container image ...


Tom Callway
25 June 2015

It’s all about containers! ODS keynote

Cloud and server Videos

It’s all about containers. All attention is turning to new and innovative variants of this cloud development technology. From LXC and Docker to our recent introduction, LXD – all signs point to an explosion in appetite for for containers, and the many benefits they bring to developers. Containers are revolutionizing the way the enterprise ...


Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

Container-to-Container Networking: The Bits have Hit the Fan!

Cloud and server Article

A thing of beautyIf you read my last post, perhaps you followed the embedded instructions and ran hundreds of LXD system containers on your own Ubuntu machine.Or perhaps you’re already a Docker enthusiast and your super savvy microservice architecture orchestrates dozens of applications among a pile of process containers.Either way, the m ...


Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

The Fan overlay network for container addresses, from Canonical

Cloud and server Article

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 in a single cloud e ...


Canonical
11 June 2015

Mark Shuttleworth’s ODS Vancouver Keynote

Cloud and server Videos

This year’s OpenStack Summit was the most successful yet; playing host to a record number of exhibitors who excited and inspired over 5,000 visiting delegates. During the course of the week, attendees were treated to a host of keynotes, breakout session and track day presentations; aimed to bring the latest news, views, innovation and opi ...


Dustin Kirkland
11 June 2015

How many containers can you run on your machine?

Cloud and server Article

652 Linux containers running on a Laptop?  Are you kidding me???A couple of weeks ago, at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canonical released the results of some scalability testing of Linux containers (LXC) managed by LXD.Ryan Harper and James Page presented their results — some 536 Linux containers on a very modest little Intel server ...


Canonical
27 May 2015

Introducing pylxd

Cloud and server Article

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 ...