Cloud and server archives
18 posts from February 2017
Mobile World Congress 2017: day one recap
By Canonical, 27 February 2017
It’s the last week of February and that can only mean one thing, Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. This event, unlike other mega shows, has...
The no-nonsense way to accelerate your business with containers
By Cezzaine Zaher, 27 February 2017
Container technology has brought about a step-change in virtualisation technology. Organisations implementing containers see considerable opportunities to...
LXD client on Windows and macOS
By Stéphane Graber, 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...
LXD 2.0: Debugging and contributing to LXD [12/12]
By Stéphane Graber, 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...
Ubuntu Core in LXD containers
By Stéphane Graber, 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...
HOWTO: Automatically import your public SSH keys into LXD Instances
By Dustin Kirkland, 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...
Dustin Kirkland: The questions that you’re afraid to ask about containers
By Dustin Kirkland, 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...
Why does software-defined everything matter?
By Canonical, 22 February 2017
Does anybody still think of a phone as a way of just making calls? According to Informate Mi less than 10% of the time you spend on a phone is spent giving...
Webinar: Get cloud-ready servers in minutes with MAAS
By Canonical, 22 February 2017
Learn how to take full advantage of existing hardware investments by maximising hardware efficiency. This live webinar was broadcasted on Wednesday 15th Mach...
LXD on Debian (using snapd)
By Stéphane Graber, 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...
Running Kubernetes inside LXD
By Stéphane Graber, 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...
Snapcraft 2.27 has been released
By Sergio Schvezov, 17 February 2017
Hello snapcrafters! We are pleased to announce the release snapcraft 2.27: https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.27 Contributions This release has seen...