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Blog posts tagged
"Storage"


Canonical
1 November 2018

Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes supported on Arm architecture

Canonical announcements Article

Today, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announces that Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) is now commercially available and supported on processors and servers based on 64-bit Arm® v8-A architecture. The data centre is evolving to support new workload requirements, it is transforming to be optimised for workloads such as: 5 ...


Christian Brauner
30 August 2017

Ceph storage driver in LXD

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared in Christian Brauner’s blog Even before LXD gained its new powerful storage API that allows LXD to administer multiple storage pools, one frequent request was to extend the range of available storage drivers (btrfs, dir, lvm, zfs) to include Ceph. Now we are happy to announce that we fulfilled this request ...


Christian Brauner
12 July 2017

Storage management in LXD 2.15

Cloud and server Article

 For a long time LXD has supported multiple storage drivers. Users could choose between zfs, btrfs, lvm, or plain directory storage pools but they could only ever use a single storage pool. A frequent feature request was to support not just a single storage pool but multiple storage pools. This way users would for example be able to maint ...


Samuel Cozannet
7 March 2017

GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 2/3: Adding storage

Cloud and server Article

Earlier this week we built a GPU cluster and installed Kubernetes so that we can do some advanced data processing. What is the thing you need next right after you have GPUs? Data. Data. and Data. And technically, if you looked at any of the tutorials for Tensorflow or the recent PaddlePaddle blog posts, you’ll ...


Canonical
6 June 2016

Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations

Cloud and server News

Vendors delivering SAAS experience on-premises with Juju charms Charms encapsulate deployment, integration, management, support, operations Reusable charms greatly reduce the operations cost of big software Centres of gravity around big data, machine learning and container management Rapid growth in use of Juju for OpenStack operations   ...


Stéphane Graber
25 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Live migration [9/12]

Cloud and server Article

This is the ninth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionOne of the very exciting feature of LXD 2.0, albeit experimental, is the support for container checkpoint and restore.Simply put, checkpoint/restore means that the running container state can be serialized down to disk and then restored, either on the same host as a stat ...


Canonical
7 April 2016

LXD networking: lxdbr0 explained

Cloud and server Article

Recently, LXD stopped depending on lxc, and thus moved to using its own bridge, called lxdbr0. lxdbr0 behaves significantly differently than lxcbr0: it is ipv6 link local only by default (i.e. there is no ipv4 or ipv6 subnet configured by default), and only HTTP traffic is proxied over the network. This means that e.g. you ...


Stéphane Graber
1 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Image management [5/12]

Cloud and server Article

This is the fifth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Container imagesIf you’ve used LXC before, you probably remember those LXC “templates”, basically shell scripts that spit out a container filesystem and a bit of configuration.Most templates generate the filesystem by doing a full distribution bootstrapping on your local machine. Th ...


Stéphane Graber
30 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Resource control [4/12]

Cloud and server Article

This is the fourth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Available resource limitsLXD offers a variety of resource limits. Some of those are tied to the container itself, like memory quotas, CPU limits and I/O priorities. Some are tied to a particular device instead, like I/O bandwidth or disk usage limits.As with all LXD configuration, ...


Stéphane Graber
22 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Your first LXD container [3/12]

Cloud and server Article

This is the third blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.As there are a lot of commands involved with managing LXD containers, this post is rather long. If you’d instead prefer a quick step-by-step tour of those same commands, you can try our online demo instead!Creating and starting a new containerAs I mentioned in the previous posts, th ...


Stéphane Graber
16 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Installing and configuring LXD [2/12]

Cloud and server Article

This is the second blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Where to get LXD and how to install itThere are many ways to get the latest and greatest LXD. We recommend you use LXD with the latest LXC and Linux kernel to benefit from all its features but we try to degrade gracefully where possible to support older Linux distributions.The Ubun ...


Christian Reis
14 March 2016

Delivering Cloud Storage using Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

Are you offering cloud storage solutions to your end-customers? You could be, and given the potential, we reckon you should be. In the past 5 years software-defined storage (SDS) platforms like Ceph and Swift have evolved dramatically; today they are redefining the cost of durable, shared storage infrastructure delivered at enterprise-lev ...