Blog posts tagged
"docker"

95 posts


Adam Stokes
21 November 2016

conjure-up Canonical Kubernetes under LXD today!

Article Cloud and server

We’ve just added the Localhost (LXD) cloud type to the list of supported cloud type on which you can deploy The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. What does this mean? Just like with our OpenStack offering you can now have Kubernetes deployed and running all on a single machine. All moving parts are confined inside their

Adam Stokes
21 November 2016


Jorge O. Castro
17 November 2016

Kubernetes the easy way

Article Cloud and server

If you’re interested in running Kubernetes you’ve probably heard of Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes the Hard Way. Exercises like these are important, they highlight the coordination needed between components in modern stacks, and it highlights how far the world has come when it comes to software automation. Could you...

Jorge O. Castro
17 November 2016


Canonical
13 October 2016

Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10

News Canonical announcements

Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and bare-metal provisioning Hybrid cloud operations with Juju 2.0 Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, tablet and phone UX convergence OpenStack Newton with secure...

Canonical
13 October 2016


Canonical
27 September 2016

Canonical expands enterprise container portfolio

News Canonical announcements

Canonical Expands Enterprise Container Portfolio with Commercially Supported Distribution of Kubernetes Canonical’s distribution of Kubernetes is supported, enterprise Kubernetes Support is available on public clouds, private infrastructure, bare metal Elastic solution with built in analytics for scale-out ‘process...

Canonical
27 September 2016


Mark Baker
15 August 2016

Lunch and learn with OpenStack containers

Article Cloud and server

Follow the instructions in this article to spend around an hour over your lunch time to get an entire Ubuntu OpenStack cloud up and running in containers on a single machine. The resulting cloud will launch container based workloads. News about containers with OpenStack is everywhere right now. Be it OpenStack running...

Mark Baker
15 August 2016


Charles Butler
5 August 2016

Layer Docker deep dive

Article Cloud and server

Juju is all about modeling your application. That means that an application can be in a docker container, use a configuration management utility on top of a traditional machine, or is a single binary golang application. This is the beauty of abstracting via models; we can concentrate on the applications themselves...

Charles Butler
5 August 2016


Stéphane Graber
8 June 2016

LXD 2.0: LXD and Juju [10/12]

Article Cloud and server

Juju is Canonical’s service modeling and deployment tool. It supports a very wide range of cloud providers to make it easy for you to deploy any service you want on any cloud you want.On top of that, Juju 2.0 also includes support for LXD, both for local deployments, ideal for development and as a way to co-locate...

Stéphane Graber
8 June 2016


matt-c-irvine
5 May 2016

What’s possible with Ubuntu on Mainframe?

Article Cloud and server

IBM Systems Magazine Webinar “Discover the Cloud and Scale Out World of Ubuntu”held on 27 April 2016 Recently announced support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on IBM LinuxONE and z Systems has created a paradigm shift in a world that often does not see much change. Systems that cannot fail, systems that the world relies on,

matt-c-irvine
5 May 2016


John Zannos
19 April 2016

Mesosphere announce open source project backed by Canonical

Article Cloud and server

Today Mesosphere announced the open source release of the DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) Project, backed by dozens of partners including Canonical. DC/OS supplies an operating system model for the datacenter building on the Apache Mesos environment. The DC/OS project is an open source technology and a building...

John Zannos
19 April 2016


Stéphane Graber
18 April 2016

Directly interacting with the LXD API

Article Cloud and server

The next post in the LXD series is currently blocked on a pending kernel fix, so I figured I’d do an out of series post on how to use the LXD API directly.Setting up the LXD daemonThe LXD REST API can be accessed over either a local Unix socket or over HTTPs. The protocol in both case is identical, the only difference...

Stéphane Graber
18 April 2016


Dustin Kirkland
15 April 2016

Docker 1.10 with Fan Networking in Ubuntu 16.04

Article Cloud and server

I’m thrilled to introduce Docker 1.10.3, supported on every Ubuntu architecture, for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and announce the General Availability of Ubuntu Fan Networking!That’s Ubuntu Docker binaries and Ubuntu Docker images for:armhf (rpi2, et al. IoT devices)arm64 (Cavium, et al. servers)i686 (does anyone seriously still...

Dustin Kirkland
15 April 2016


Stéphane Graber
15 April 2016

LXD 2.0: LXD in LXD [8/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the eighth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionIn the previous post I covered how to run Docker inside LXD which is a good way to get access to the portfolio of application provided by Docker while running in the safety of the LXD environment.One use case I mentioned was offering a LXD container...

Stéphane Graber
15 April 2016


Stéphane Graber
13 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Docker in LXD [7/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the seventh blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Why run Docker inside LXDAs I briefly covered in the first post of this series, LXD’s focus is system containers. That is, we run a full unmodified Linux distribution inside our containers. LXD for all intent and purposes doesn’t care about the workload running...

Stéphane Graber
13 April 2016


Mark Shuttleworth
13 April 2016

Nova-LXD delivers bare-metal performance on OpenStack, while Ironic delivers NSA-as-a-Service

Article Cloud and server

With the release of LXC 2.0 and LXD, we now have a pure-container hypervisor that delivers bare-metal performance with a standard Linux guest OS experience. Very low latency, very high density, and very high control of specific in-guest application processes compared to KVM and ESX make it worth checking out for...

Mark Shuttleworth
13 April 2016