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Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD
by Canonical on 5 November 2015
London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux...
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ODS Tokyo: OpenStack For Everyone
by James Donner on 3 November 2015
We kicked off OpenStack Summit Tokyo’s Thursday Track Day with Mark Shuttleworth’s opening address, “OpenStack for Everyone”. You can watch it yourself below”...
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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...
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OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Two
by Canonical on 29 October 2015
The keynote sessions that kicked off the second day of OpenStack Summit Tokyo continued the theme of containers, but got a little deeper into the business...
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OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day One
by Canonical on 28 October 2015
Yesterday was our first full day here at OpenStack Summit Tokyo, and the themes seemed pretty clear. Increased focus on applications and containers –...
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An nova-compute-lxd update
by Guest on 26 October 2015
For the past couple of months, we have been working hard on adding new features to nova-compute-lxd (nclxd). The new features that have been added go beyond...
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Charming 2.0 – Now with 100% more awesome
by Charles Butler on 22 October 2015
Editors Note: This post is one of many in a series covering the newpatterns in charming. This first post will be information heavy andcover a walkthrough of...
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[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...
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Infographic: LXD Machine containers from Ubuntu
by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 23 September 2015
LXD (pronounced “lex-dee”) is a container hypervisor from Ubuntu. LXD containers look and act like virtual machines, but have the lightweight performance and...
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Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015
by Dustin Kirkland on 12 August 2015
Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list...
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Publishing LXD images
by Canonical on 30 June 2015
While some work remains to be done for ‘lxc publish’, the current support is sufficient to show a full cycle of image workload with lxd.Ubuntu wily comes with...
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It’s all about containers! ODS keynote
by Tom Callway on 25 June 2015
It’s all about containers. All attention is turning to new and innovative variants of this cloud development technology. From LXC and Docker to our recent...