containers
Cloud and server
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...
Cloud and server
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...
Cloud and server
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...
Cloud and server
Live Migration in LXD
by Canonical on 6 May 2015
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...
Cloud and server
Getting started with LXD – the container lightervisor
by Stéphane Graber on 28 April 2015
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...
Cloud and server
Here comes Kilo and 15.04! Containers will never be the same again!
by Mark Baker on 22 April 2015
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...
Cloud and server
Introducing lxcfs
by Tom Callway on 2 March 2015
Last year around this time, we announced the availability of cgmanager, a daemon allowing users and programs to easily administer and delegate cgroups over a...