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Run your own LXD demo server
by Stéphane Graber on 6 March 2017
The LXD demo serverThe LXD demo server is the service behind https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it.We use it to showcase LXD by leading visitors through an...
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Cloud Chatter: February 2017
by James Donner on 3 March 2017
Our February edition is packed with great content! We kick off with explaining why software-defined everything matters and give you a recap of Mobile World...
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Mobile World Congress 2017: day four recap
by Canonical on 2 March 2017
Today was the final day for Mobile World Congress 2017. It has been a long, hectic, but exciting week. For starters, we had a record number of visitors to...
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The no-nonsense way to accelerate your business with containers
by Cezzaine Zaher on 27 February 2017
Container technology has brought about a step-change in virtualisation technology. Organisations implementing containers see considerable opportunities to...
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LXD client on Windows and macOS
by Stéphane Graber on 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...