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Blog posts tagged
"LXC"

Serge Hallyn
30 October 2015

Nested containers in LXD

Cloud and server Article

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 using privileged lxd containers (security.privileged: true), then the only thing you need to do is to set the security.nesting flag to true:lxc launch ubuntu nestc1 -c security.nest ...

Tom Callway
5 October 2015

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

Cloud and server Article

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 contributor mostly involved in the Edubuntu project, Ubuntu itself and LTSP. He is also the project lead for LXD and LXC at Canonical. ...

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

The Fan overlay network for container addresses, from Canonical

Cloud and server Article

Today, Canonical introduces the Fan overlay network system in Ubuntu in test images for Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, delivering the fastest and most scalable address expansion mechanism in the container world. The Fan enables cloud users to grow the number of Docker and LXD containers they can address in a single cloud e ...

Canonical
27 May 2015

Introducing pylxd

Cloud and server Article

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 various people involved in the LXD project, I have decided to split this part of nova-compute-lxd into its own project called pylxd. Pylxd is a ...

Stéphane Graber
28 April 2015

Getting started with LXD – the container lightervisor

Cloud and server Article

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 called LXD. Ubuntu 15.04, due to be released this Thursday, will contain LXD 0.7 in its repository. This is still the early days and while we’re confident LXD 0.7 ...

Mark Baker
22 April 2015

Here comes Kilo and 15.04! Containers will never be the same again!

Cloud and server Article

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 Support (LTS) release and a year before the next LTS so represents a milestone in which we bring in and start to settle down features we want ...

Canonical
20 March 2015

Installing LXD and the command line tool

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu server As LXD evolves quite rapidly, we recommend Ubuntu users use our PPA: add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-lxc/lxd-stable apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install lxd The package creates a new “lxd” group which contains all users allowed to talk to lxd over the local unix socket. All members of the “adm ...

Tom Callway
2 March 2015

Introducing lxcfs

Cloud and server Article

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 dbus interface. It was key to supporting nested containers and unprivileged users. While its dbus interface turned out to have tremendous benefits (I wasn’t sold at first), there are ...

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