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"LXD"

Canonical
24 June 2015

Introducing the Fan – simpler container networking

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu wiki page to get started, or read Dustin’s excellent fan walkthrough. Carry on here for a simple description of this happy little dose of awesome. ...

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

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

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Canonical
18 May 2015

LXD crushes KVM in density and speed

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 hypervisor lead by Canonical. Today, Canonical published benchmarks showing that LXD runs guest machines 14.5 times more densely and with 57% less latency than KVM. The container-bas ...

Canonical
6 May 2015

Introduction to nova-compute-lxd

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the container will look and feel like a regular VM – but will act like a container. LXD uses the same container technology found in the Linux kernel (cgroups, namespaces, LSM, etc). The ...

Canonical
6 May 2015

Live Migration in LXD

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

There has been a lot of interest on the various mailing lists as well as internally at Canonical about the state of migration in LXD, so I thought I’d write a bit about the current state of affairs. Migration in LXD today passes the “Doom demo” test, i.e. it works well enough to reproduce the ...

Stéphane Graber
28 April 2015

Getting started with LXD – the container lightervisor

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Introduction For the past 6 months, Serge Hallyn, Tycho Andersen, Chuck Short, Ryan Harper and myself have been very busy working on a new container project called LXD. Ubuntu 15.04, due to be released this Thursday, will contain LXD 0.7 in its repository. This is still the early days and while we’re confident LXD 0.7 ...

Mark Baker
22 April 2015

Here comes Kilo and 15.04! Containers will never be the same again!

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Today Ubuntu 15.04, codenamed Vivid Vervet, is released with a host of new features for clouds and servers. 15.04 comes a full year since the last Long Term Support (LTS) release and a year before the next LTS so represents a milestone in which we bring in and start to settle down features we want ...

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