Blog posts tagged "LXD"

Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and bare-metal provisioning Hybrid cloud operations with Juju 2.0 Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, tablet and phone UX convergence OpenStack Newton with secure bare metal performanc

Canonical Expands Enterprise Container Portfolio with Commercially Supported Distribution of Kubernetes Canonical’s distribution of Kubernetes is supported, enterprise Kubernetes Support is available on public clouds, private infrastructure, bare metal Elastic solution with built in analytics for scale-out ‘process container’ loads LONDON

Written by David Duffey, Director of Technical Partnerships for Canonical’s cloud division Today at the OCP Technology Day, Facebook announced the grand opening of its new hardware lab space in Menlo Park to validate and certify software solutions and Canonical was one of the first to test its solutions are OCP compliant. At the new

Juju is all about modeling your application. That means that an application can be in a docker container, use a configuration management utility on top of a traditional machine, or is a single binary golang application. This is the beauty of abstracting via models; we can concentrate on the applications themselves instead of their deliver

In this issue… Ecosystem growth: Welcome to our new partners New features and tips: Juju GUI 2.0, using ZFS and LXD, and OPNFV charming Upcoming events: Juju Charmer Summit 12-14 September and upcoming office hours Ecosystem Growth Canonical announced multiple signatories to its Juju Charm Partner Program (CPP) in June. We’ve added leadin

If you’re starting from almost scratch, and – where many people are – you don’t have any skill, you don’t have any training, you don’t have much of an idea of what you want to do, Then [BootStack] is a very good place to start. The University of Cape Town (UCT), in South Africa, recently

Juju is Canonical’s service modeling and deployment tool. It supports a very wide range of cloud providers to make it easy for you to deploy any service you want on any cloud you want.On top of that, Juju 2.0 also includes support for LXD, both for local deployments, ideal for development and as a way to co-locate services on a cloud inst

Below you can find the audio/video recording of my OpenStack Austin presentation, where I demonstrated Ubuntu OpenStack Mitaka, running on top of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, entirely within LXD machine containers.  You can also download the PDF of the slide

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,

This is the ninth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionOne of the very exciting feature of LXD 2.0, albeit experimental, is the support for container checkpoint and restore.Simply put, checkpoint/restore means that the running container state can be serialized down to disk and then restored, either on the same host as a stat

Introduces “snaps” for new robust, secure app format Introduces LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka Supports IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with flat pricing Steps towards converged Ubuntu across IOT, Phone, Desktop and Server Introduces ZFS and CephFS for large-scale cloud storage LONDON 20th April 2016: Canonical announced t

Today Mesosphere announced the open source release of the DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) Project, backed by dozens of partners including Canonical. DC/OS supplies an operating system model for the datacenter building on the Apache Mesos environment. The DC/OS project is an open source technology and a building ecosystem of more than

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 being that the Unix

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 Networking!That’s Ubuntu Docker binaries and Ubuntu Docker images for:armhf (rpi2, et al. IoT devices)arm64 (Cavium, et al. servers)i686 (does anyone seriously still run 32-bit intel se

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 to your users and th

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