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Blog posts tagged
"machine containers"

Camille Rodriguez
17 October 2019

Kubernetes on a single machine

Cloud and server Article

As developers, we do not always have access to a production-like environment to test new features and run proof-of-concepts. This is why it can be very interesting to deploy Kubernetes on a single machine. Of course, there is the new microk8s snap that allows a super fast deployment of a k8s cluster on a laptop ...

Michael Iatrou
3 May 2018

LXD Clusters: A Primer

Cloud and server Article

Since its inception, LXD has been striving to offer a fresh and intuitive user experience for machine containers. LXD instances can be managed over the network through a REST API and a single command line tool. For large scale LXD deployments, OpenStack has been the standard approach: using Nova LXD, lightweight containers replace traditi ...

Stéphane Graber
17 April 2018

LXD weekly status #43

Cloud and server Article

Introduction This week’s focus was on bugfixes with a good number of clustering related fixes and improvements as well as some tweaks and fixes to other recently added features. On the feature development front, the current focus is on improving the database tooling in LXD and adding a new backup feature to the API to ...

Michael Iatrou
13 April 2018

On the road to lean infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

On April 24 2008, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron was released. That was a decade ago, when the modern cloud computing era was dawning: Amazon’s EC2 was still in beta, Google had just released the Google App Engine and the word “container” was dominating the plastics industry rather than IT. A lot has changed since ...

Stéphane Graber
10 April 2018

LXD weekly status #42

Cloud and server Article

Introduction As this was the week following our major 3.0 release, we’ve been very actively working on early bug reports and sorting out packaging for this in the distros. This led to quite a number of bugfixes being done, issues investigated and a large number of updates to our snap and Debian packages for the ...

Stéphane Graber
3 April 2018

LXD weekly status #41

Cloud and server Article

Introduction The highlight for this week is the release of LXD, LXC and LXCFS 3.0! Those 3 releases are LTS releases and will be supported for the next 5 years. The relevant release announcements can be found here: LXD 3.0 LXC 3.0 LXCFS 3.0 We’d like to thank every one of our contributors who made ...

Stéphane Graber
27 March 2018

LXD weekly status #40

Cloud and server Article

Introduction This week we released another LXD beta and two LXC betas. We also made good progress replacing the command line parser in LXD, finishing the port of the lxd command line tool with only lxc left to port at this point. Remote copy and move of storage volume was completed and merged in LXD, ...

Stéphane Graber
20 March 2018

LXD weekly status #39

Cloud and server Article

Introduction The focus for this week was on CEPH and LXD clustering, trying to get the last few remaining pieces to work together properly. We’ve tagged a couple more betas as we went through that. We’ve also spent a good chunk of time getting Ubuntu and Debian images to switch over to distrobuilder. They’re now ...

Stéphane Graber
13 March 2018

LXD weekly status #38

Cloud and server Article

Introduction This past week the LXD team was meeting in Budapest, Hungary. We spent most of our times working on a number of issues targeted at the final 3.0 releases. @freeekanayaka worked with @stgraber to track down an fix a testing regression on s390x, then worked on CEPH support in LXD clustering as well as ...

Stéphane Graber
5 March 2018

LXD weekly status #37

Cloud and server Article

Introduction So this past week was rather intense, in a nutshell, we’ve: Merged LXD clustering support Split python3-lxc, lua-lxc and lxc-templates out of the LXC codebase Moved libpam-cgfs from lxcfs to lxc Released 3.0.0 beta1 of python3-lxc and lxc-templates Released 3.0.0 beta1 of lxcfs Released 3.0.0 beta1 of lxc Released 3.0.0 beta1 ...

Stéphane Graber
26 February 2018

LXD weekly status #36

Cloud and server Article

Introduction This past week we’ve been working very hard to land all those last few bits ahead of us tagging a number of 3.0.0.beta1 releases of all our repositories. We’re now waiting for a few last bits to land, including LXD clustering and some reshuffling of templates, bindings and tools in LXC. The current plan ...

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