Canonical Targets New Container Workloads with LXC and LXD 2.0 Release

Canonical Targets New Container Workloads with LXC and LXD 2.0 Release

LXC and LXD — Canonical‘s answer (sort of) to CoreOS and Docker — are finally out in stable form. Are they ready to make their mark on the open source container ecosystem? ...
| | Canonical, lxc, lxd
Container Compatibility: Do Containers Need More Standardization?

Container Compatibility: Do Containers Need More Standardization?

Does the container ecosystem need more standards? If you look at the list of different container platforms and products — from Docker and CoreOS to LXD and Project Atomic — it can ...
| | coreos, lxd, standards
CGmanager: Undergirding LXD

CGmanager: Undergirding LXD

The third LXD / LXC technology in this series is CGmanager, which is the final undergirding technology, the one that enables secure cgroup (control group) management for Linux containers. CGmanager is necessary ...
| | linux, lxc, lxd
LXD, the Hypervisor for LXC Containers, Part One

LXD, the Hypervisor for LXC Containers, Part One

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu and is neck-deep in providing Linux Containers, i.e., LXC and its component technologies, now including LXD (the LXC container hypervisor), CGmanager (for cgroups) and LXCFS (a ...
| | lxc, lxd
Containers: Passing fad or tech nirvana?

Containers: Passing fad or tech nirvana?

Linux containers are hot right now in software development. But are they just a passing fad or something more substantial? I’m reminded of a childhood experience that might help make the answer ...