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The highlight of this week was the release of LXD 2.20 which introduces a number of exciting new features. LXD 2.20 should now be available everywhere through both native packages and snap. We also started the process of deprecating the various LXD PPAs, see below for details. Our next milestone is LXD 2.21 in about ...
Introduction Another pretty quiet week for LXD as we keep working on a number of larger features that aren’t ready to land yet. Now that the Ubuntu 18.04 development release is open for contributions, we’re pushing LXD 2.19, LXC 2.1.1 and LXCFS 2.0.8 there which will then trickle down to our various PPAs, stable Ubuntu ...
Introduction This week was busy with stable releases. All in all, we released: LXD 2.19 (feature release) LXC 1.0.11 (bugfix release) LXC 2.0.9 (bugfix release) LXC 2.1.1 (bugfix release) LXCFS 2.0.8 (bugfix release) LXD 2.0.11 (bugfix release) We’ve also merged support for external authentication in LXD, through support of macaroon authe ...
Introduction This past week, part of the team was back in New York for more planning meetings, getting the details of the next 6 months, including LXC, LXD and LXCFS 3.0 fleshed out. The rest of the team made good progress on some smaller feature work, started working on console attach for LXD, looked into ...
In our last intro to Modeling with Juju post we didn’t pay any attention to the hardware needed to run our workloads. We ran with Juju default values for what the hardware characteristics of the cloud instances should be. Rather than define a bunch of YAML about each machine needed to run the infrastructure, Juju picks sane defaults that ...
Welcome to the seventh Ubuntu OpenStack development summary! This summary is intended to be a regular communication of activities and plans happening in and around Ubuntu OpenStack, covering but not limited to the distribution and deployment of OpenStack on Ubuntu. If there is something that you would like to see covered in future summari ...
A few years ago, the simplest method to deploy and operate Kubernetes on Ubuntu was with conjure-up. Whether the substrate is a public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) private virtualized environments (VMware) or bare metal, conjure-up will allow you to quickly install a fully functional, production-grade Kubernetes. But what if you wanted to ...
Weekly status for the week of the 2nd to the 8th of October 2017. Introduction After everyone got back home from New York City, we got back to work on LXD, LXC and LXCFS. On the LXD front, other than a large amount of bugfixes, we’ve made our online documentation available through Read The Docs. ...
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 ...
Canonical supports enterprise Kubernetes on cloud and on-premises Two turnkey consulting packages for rapid deployment Support for Galactic Fog serverless, Rancher container management and Weave Cloud Reference architectures for Kubernetes operations on cloud or bare-metal LONDON, U.K, Aug 23rd, 2017, Canonical today announced two consult ...
Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and the leading platform for cloud and IoT operations. “The breadth and pace of open source innovation has made it the center of gravity in technology today, and the Ubuntu community ...
USB devices in containersIt can be pretty useful to pass USB devices to a container. Be that some measurement equipment in a lab or maybe more commonly, an Android phone or some IoT device that you need to interact with.Similar to what I wrote recently about GPUs, LXD supports passing USB devices into containers. Again, similarly to the G ...
