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Blog posts tagged
"containers"


James Donner
4 April 2018

Git-to-k8s automation for on-prem container deployments

Cloud and server Webinar

This is the second webinar in our Kubernetes Month series! Speaker: Khash Sajadi (Cloud66) & Marco Ceppi (Canonical) Date/Time: April 11, 2018 at 12PM EST / 5PM GMT Kubernetes brings Devs and Ops close together, but that presents significant challenges for traditional CI/CD as an effective and scalable on-ramp onto clusters. A new class o ...


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 ...


James Donner
28 March 2018

What can you do with Kubernetes?

Cloud and server Webinar

This is the first webinar in our Kubernetes Month series! Speaker: Vinod Kumar Date/Time: April 4, 2018 at 12PM EST / 5PM GMT Need to get up to speed with Kubernetes? This webinar will give you the primer to the Kubernetes platform that you need. You’ve probably heard that Kubernetes is great technology, but have ...


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
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 ...


Stéphane Graber
20 February 2018

LXD Weekly Status #35

Cloud and server Article

Introduction This past week we’ve been focusing on a number of open pull requests, getting closer to merging improvements to our storage volume handling, unix char/block devices handling and the massive clustering branch that’s been cooking for a while. We’re hoping to see most of those land at some point this coming week. On the ...


Canonical
15 February 2018

Storage Made Easy adds Charm to Canonical’s Juju ecosystem

Canonical announcements Article

Storage Made Easy (SME) today announced the availability of the Storage Made Easy™ Enterprise File Fabric™ charm through Canonical’s Juju charm store. The store provides access to a wide range of best practice solutions which can be deployed to public clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure as well as private clouds such as ...


Stéphane Graber
14 February 2018

LXD weekly status #34

Cloud and server Article

Introduction A lot happened this past week. @brauner is making great progress cleaning everything up in liblxc and related projects ahead of the 3.0 release, @freeekanayaka has been sorting out the last few missing bits for LXD clustering and @monstermunchkin has been busy working on our new distrobuilder tool! On top of all that, we’ve ...


Stéphane Graber
7 February 2018

LXD weekly status #33

Cloud and server Article

Weekly status for the week of the 29th of January to the 5th of February 2018. Introduction This past week, the entire LXD team was meeting in Brussels to work together for a few days ahead of FOSDEM. During those days, we’ve been looking into our short and long term plans, worked together on our ...


Stéphane Graber
29 January 2018

LXD weekly status #32

Cloud and server Article

The focus of this week has been preparing for our trip to Brussels where we’ll be spending 3 days all working together on LXD before attending and presenting at FOSDEM. @brauner is making good progress on preparing for the liblxc 3.0 release, moving all the various language bindings and tools out of the main tree ...


Michael Iatrou
26 January 2018

LXD: five easy pieces

Cloud and server Article

Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants. LXD optimizes resource allocation and utilization for Kubernetes clusters, modernizes workload management in HPC infrastructure and streamlines lift and shift for legacy applications ...


Stéphane Graber
24 January 2018

LXD weekly status #31

Cloud and server Article

Introduction Nothing too major happened this past week. Part of the time was at an internal planning meeting and the rest have been working on clustering, preparation for 3.0 and fixing a variety of bugs. Next week the entire LXD team will be traveling to Brussels to attend a small team sprint followed by FOSDEM! ...