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Infographic: LXD Machine containers from Ubuntu
by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 23 September 2015
LXD (pronounced “lex-dee”) is a container hypervisor from Ubuntu. LXD containers look and act like virtual machines, but have the lightweight performance and...
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Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015
by Dustin Kirkland on 12 August 2015
Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list...
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Publishing LXD images
by Canonical on 30 June 2015
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...
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It’s all about containers! ODS keynote
by Tom Callway on 25 June 2015
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...
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Introducing the Fan – simpler container networking
by Canonical on 24 June 2015
Canonical just announced a new, free, and very cool way to provide thousands of IP addresses to each of your VMs on AWS. Check out the fan networking on...
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Container-to-Container Networking: The Bits have Hit the Fan!
by Dustin Kirkland on 22 June 2015
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...
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The Fan overlay network for container addresses, from Canonical
by Dustin Kirkland on 22 June 2015
Today, Canonical introduces the Fan overlay network system in Ubuntu in test images for Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, delivering the fastest...
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Mark Shuttleworth’s ODS Vancouver Keynote
by Canonical on 11 June 2015
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...
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How many containers can you run on your machine?
by Dustin Kirkland on 11 June 2015
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...
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Introducing pylxd
by Canonical on 27 May 2015
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...
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LXD crushes KVM in density and speed
by Canonical on 18 May 2015
LXD achieves 14.5 times greater density than KVM LXD launches instances 94% faster than KVM LXD provides 57% less latency than KVM LXD is the container-based...
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Introduction to nova-compute-lxd
by Canonical on 6 May 2015
LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the...