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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Snapcraft 2.27 has been released

by Sergio Schvezov on 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...

GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 1/3

by Samuel Cozannet on 15 February 2017

A few weeks ago I shared a side project about Building a DYI GPU cluster for k8s to play with Kubernetes with a proper ROI vs. AWS g2 instances. This was...

Network management with LXD (2.3+)

by Stéphane Graber on 14 February 2017

Introduction When LXD 2.0 shipped with Ubuntu 16.04, LXD networking was pretty simple. You could either use that “lxdbr0” bridge that “lxd init” would have...

Webinar: Getting started with the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes

by Cezzaine Zaher on 10 February 2017

Discover the simplest and easiest way to stand up and operate a Kubernetes cluster in AWS. Watch our webinar! The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes is a...

Automate the deployment of Kubernetes in existing AWS infrastructure

by Samuel Cozannet on 8 February 2017

When I talk about Ubuntu and Kubernetes, and how we deploy the latter at Canonical using Juju, the main question I get is: Can you deploy in an existing...