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Converting eth0 to br0 and getting all your LXC or LXD onto your LAN

by Jay R. Wren on 10 November 2015

Wayne has a great post on the new juju lxd work. I’ve been using it a bit and it is awesome. It is super fast and I can create and destroy environments faster...

Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

by dimitern on 8 November 2015

In the past months our Juju Core Sapphire team has been working on the design, planning, and implementation of a set of extended networking features for Juju...

Canonical Cloud Chatter: October 2015

by James Donner on 6 November 2015

We had a very busy month, with the new release of Ubuntu 15.10 and the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. We are proud to announce that the OpenStack Foundation...

Using LXD with a file-based ZFS pool on Ubuntu Wily

by Dean Henrichsmeyer on 6 November 2015

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) comes natively with some technology previously only available in PPAs. LXD is a container hypervisor that enables and facilitates...

LXD in the Sky with Diamonds

by Dustin Kirkland on 5 November 2015

Picture yourself containers on a server With systemd trees and spawned tty’s Somebody calls you, you answer quite quickly A world with the density so high –...

Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD

by Canonical on 5 November 2015

London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux...

ODS Tokyo: OpenStack For Everyone

by James Donner on 3 November 2015

We kicked off OpenStack Summit Tokyo’s Thursday Track Day with Mark Shuttleworth’s opening address, “OpenStack for Everyone”. You can watch it yourself below”...

Interoute accelerates enterprises’ move to the cloud – and to Ubuntu

by Udi Nachmany on 2 November 2015

A new entrant to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Global IaaS in 2015 was the UK-based Interoute with its Virtual Data Centre (VDC). Not your typical cloud giant,...

Nested containers in LXD

by Serge Hallyn on 30 October 2015

We’ve long considered nested containers an important use case in lxc. Lxd is no different in this regard. Lately there have been several questionsIf you are...

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Three

by Canonical on 30 October 2015

Mark Shuttleworth talks about why we build tools like OpenStack, its new features and how it is evolving for everyone. Day three of the summit didn’t feature...

Everyone Can Have a New “Datacenter” Right Now, Even You!

by Randall Ross on 29 October 2015

A (new) datacenter? Me? Really? Why would I want that? Answer 1: Because if you’re an individual, you have problems to solve that cannot be solved by...

Now you’re charming with layers

by Cory Johns on 29 October 2015

Charming with layers is a relatively new approach to writing charms that we, as the Juju community, are begining to use. The idea is to allow better re-use of...