containers
Canonical announcements
Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities
by Canonical on 13 April 2017
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...
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Cloud Chatter: March 2017
by James Donner on 3 April 2017
Our March edition is packed with exciting content. We begin with our recent announcement of Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance providing ongoing...
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USB hotplug with LXD containers
by Stéphane Graber on 29 March 2017
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...
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Carrier Cloudification: What every telecom executive needs to know
by Tom Callway on 29 March 2017
New imperatives, technologies, and the emergence of the public cloud are forcing telecom service providers to rethink and validate their fundamental business...
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NVidia CUDA inside a LXD container
by Stéphane Graber on 28 March 2017
GPU inside a container LXD supports GPU passthrough but this is implemented in a very different way than what you would expect from a virtual machine. With...
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GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 3/3: Automating Tensorflow
by Samuel Cozannet on 9 March 2017
Here we are. After having spent 21min reading how to build a GPU Kubernetes cluster on AWS, 7min on adding EFS storage, you want to get to the real thing,...
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GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 2/3: Adding storage
by Samuel Cozannet on 7 March 2017
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...
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Run your own LXD demo server
by Stéphane Graber on 6 March 2017
The LXD demo serverThe LXD demo server is the service behind https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it.We use it to showcase LXD by leading visitors through an...
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Cloud Chatter: February 2017
by James Donner on 3 March 2017
Our February edition is packed with great content! We kick off with explaining why software-defined everything matters and give you a recap of Mobile World...
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Mobile World Congress 2017: day four recap
by Canonical on 2 March 2017
Today was the final day for Mobile World Congress 2017. It has been a long, hectic, but exciting week. For starters, we had a record number of visitors to...
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The no-nonsense way to accelerate your business with containers
by Cezzaine Zaher on 27 February 2017
Container technology has brought about a step-change in virtualisation technology. Organisations implementing containers see considerable opportunities to...