Storage
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Ceph storage driver in LXD
by Christian Brauner on 30 August 2017
This article originally appeared in Christian Brauner’s blog Even before LXD gained its new powerful storage API that allows LXD to administer multiple...
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Storage management in LXD 2.15
by Christian Brauner on 12 July 2017
For a long time LXD has supported multiple storage drivers. Users could choose between zfs, btrfs, lvm, or plain directory storage pools but they could only...
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Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations
by Canonical on 6 June 2016
Vendors delivering SAAS experience on-premises with Juju charms Charms encapsulate deployment, integration, management, support, operations Reusable charms...
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LXD 2.0: Live migration [9/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 25 April 2016
This is the ninth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionOne of the very exciting feature of LXD 2.0, albeit experimental, is the support for...
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LXD networking: lxdbr0 explained
by Canonical on 7 April 2016
Recently, LXD stopped depending on lxc, and thus moved to using its own bridge, called lxdbr0. lxdbr0 behaves significantly differently than lxcbr0: it is...
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LXD 2.0: Image management [5/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 1 April 2016
This is the fifth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Container imagesIf you’ve used LXC before, you probably remember those LXC “templates”, basically...
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LXD 2.0: Resource control [4/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 30 March 2016
This is the fourth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Available resource limitsLXD offers a variety of resource limits. Some of those are tied to the...
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LXD 2.0: Your first LXD container [3/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 22 March 2016
This is the third blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.As there are a lot of commands involved with managing LXD containers, this post is rather long. If...
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LXD 2.0: Installing and configuring LXD [2/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 16 March 2016
This is the second blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Where to get LXD and how to install itThere are many ways to get the latest and greatest LXD. We...
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Delivering Cloud Storage using Ubuntu
by Christian Reis on 14 March 2016
Are you offering cloud storage solutions to your end-customers? You could be, and given the potential, we reckon you should be. In the past 5 years...
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Ubuntu Advantage Storage launches at OpenStack Summit
by Canonical on 18 May 2015
Canonical launches software-defined storage solutions with cloud-style pricing Ubuntu Advantage Storage delivers a range of supported software-defined storage...
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What are the different types of storage: block, object and file?
by Canonical on 18 May 2015
Networked storage services are generally classified in the way they are consumed and interfaced with on the client side. The most traditional service type is...