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GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 2/3: Adding storage

by Samuel Cozannet on 7 March 2017

Earlier this week we built a GPU cluster and installed Kubernetes so that we can do some advanced data processing. What is the thing you need next right after...

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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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Cloud Chatter: February 2017

by James Donner on 3 March 2017

Our February edition is packed with great content! We kick off with explaining why software-defined everything matters and give you a recap of Mobile World...

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Mobile World Congress 2017: day four recap

by Canonical on 2 March 2017

Today was the final day for Mobile World Congress 2017.  It has been a long, hectic, but exciting week. For starters, we had a record number of visitors to...

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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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Dustin Kirkland: The questions that you’re afraid to ask about containers

by Dustin Kirkland on 24 February 2017

Yesterday, I delivered a talk to a lively audience at ContainerWorld in Santa Clara, California.If I measured “the most interesting slides” by counting “the...

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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...