--- title: LXC | Blog description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/lxc?format=md --- # Blog posts tagged *"LXC"* --- [Miona Aleksic](https://canonical.com/blog/author/mionaalex) 15 March 2022 ### [What are Linux containers?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-are-linux-containers) Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog This blog explains what are Linux containers, how they differ from application containers, and when should you use them. ... --- [Jeremie Deray](https://canonical.com/blog/author/artivis) 3 July 2020 ### [Feeling at home in a LXD container](https://canonical.com/blog/feeling-at-home-in-a-lxd-container) Robotics Ubuntu tech blog In this post, we will see how we can containerize our home in LXD simply managing our personal configuration files – a.k.a. dotfiles. Yeah dotfiles, named after their common ~/.my\_config form, you know, all of those small configuration files lying across our $HOME. In other words, how one can change the house while keeping the ... --- [Ted Kern](https://canonical.com/blog/author/tkern) 6 March 2020 ### [ROS Development with LXD](https://canonical.com/blog/ros-development-with-lxd) Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog Linux containers allow for easy isolation of developer environments. If you’re often working with a bunch of different ROS versions, it’s a lot easier to do your work entirely in containers. Getting Started You’ll first need to install LXD using snap. Note Throughout this guide I will be using the hostname to distinguish which machine ... --- [Stéphane Graber](https://canonical.com/blog/author/stgraber) 26 February 2018 ### [LXD weekly status #36](https://canonical.com/blog/lxd-weekly-status-36) Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog 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](https://canonical.com/blog/author/stgraber) 29 January 2018 ### [LXD weekly status #32](https://canonical.com/blog/lxd-weekly-status-32) Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog 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 ... --- [Stéphane Graber](https://canonical.com/blog/author/stgraber) 18 December 2017 ### [LXD Weekly Status #28](https://canonical.com/blog/lxd-weekly-status-28) Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog Introduction This is our last status update before we break for the holidays. On the LXD side of things, this past week saw the inclusion of a couple of minor features (–all flag and boot.stop.priority option) and quite a few bugfixes. In low level LXC, a lot of changes have been going on to improve handling of application ... --- [Stéphane Graber](https://canonical.com/blog/author/stgraber) 27 November 2017 ### [LXD Weekly Status #25](https://canonical.com/blog/lxd-weekly-status-25) Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog Introduction This week has been split between some upcoming feature work (infiniband and clustering), helping some new contributors get started with contributing to LXD and doing a lot of backports to the stable branches. Our stable branch backlog is now empty on all 3 projects and @brauner is now handling this for LXC with @stgraber ... --- [Stéphane Graber](https://canonical.com/blog/author/stgraber) 13 November 2017 ### [LXD Weekly Status #23](https://canonical.com/blog/lxd-weekly-status-23) Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog Introduction The main focus this past week has been on merging a pretty large refactoring branch on top of LXD. This moves a lot of code around to make it more testable and easier to plug in a new database implementation in preparation for some clustering features. We’ve done a few minor improvements like adding ... --- [Stéphane Graber](https://canonical.com/blog/author/stgraber) 4 September 2017 ### [LXD Weekly Status #13: Snap data migration, Open Source Summit & more](https://canonical.com/blog/lxd-weekly-status-13-snap-data-migration-open-source-summit-more) Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog Weekly status for the week of the 28th to the 3rd of September 2017. Introduction The main focus for this past week has been the preparation for LXC 2.1. We’ve now issued a call for testing and expect it to release tomorrow (Tuesday). On the LXD side of things, we’ve been working through bug reports quite a ... --- [Stéphane Graber](https://canonical.com/blog/author/stgraber) 27 February 2017 ### [LXD 2.0: Debugging and contributing to LXD [12/12]](https://canonical.com/blog/lxd-2-0-debugging-and-contributing-to-lxd-1212) Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog This is the twelfth and last blog post in this series about LXD 2.0. Introduction This is finally it! The last blog post in this series of 12 that started almost a year ago. If you followed the series from the beginning, … Continue reading → ... --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical) 1 December 2016 ### [Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes reduces operational friction](https://canonical.com/blog/canonicals-distribution-of-kubernetes-reduces-operational-friction) Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog Linux containers (LXC) are one of the hottest technologies in the market today. Developers are adopting containers, especially Docker, as a way to speed-up development cycles and deliver code into testing or production environments much faster than traditional methods. With the largest base of LXC, LXD, and Docker users, Ubuntu has long b ... --- 1. *Previous page* 2. [1](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/lxc?format=md&page=1) 3. [2](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/lxc?format=md&page=2) 4. [3](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/lxc?format=md&page=3) 5. [*Next page*](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/lxc?format=md&page=2)