LXC

Nested containers in LXD

by Serge Hallyn on 30 October 2015

We’ve long considered nested containers an important use case in lxc. Lxd is no different in this regard. Lately there have been several questionsIf you are...

[Video] An introduction to LXD, the container lighter-visor

by Tom Callway on 5 October 2015

Stephane Graber gave this talk at the recent Container Camp event on Sept 11th, 2015 at the Barbican Centre, London. He is a long time Open Source user and...

The Fan overlay network for container addresses, from Canonical

by Dustin Kirkland on 22 June 2015

Today, Canonical introduces the Fan overlay network system in Ubuntu in test images for Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, delivering the fastest...

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...

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...

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...

Installing LXD and the command line tool

by Canonical on 20 March 2015

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...