LXC 1.0: Scripting with the API [8/10]
This is post 8 out of 10 in the LXC 1.0 blog post series. The API The first version of liblxc was introduced in LXC 0.9 but it was very much at an experimental state. LXC 1.0 however will ship with a...
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LXC 1.0: GUI in containers [9/10]
This is post 9 out of 10 in the LXC 1.0 blog post series. Some starting notes This post uses unprivileged containers, this isn’t an hard requirement but makes a lot of sense for GUI applications....
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This is post 10 out of 10 in the LXC 1.0 blog post series. Logging Most LXC commands take two options: -o, –logfile=FILE: Location of the logfile (defaults to stder) -l, –logpriority=LEVEL: Log...
View ArticleLXC 1.0 now available!
After 10 months of work, over a thousand contributions by 60 or so contributors, we’ve finally released LXC 1.0! You may have followed my earlier series of blog post on LXC 1.0, well, everything I...
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VPN in containers
I often have to deal with VPNs, either to connect to the company network, my own network when I’m abroad or to various other places where I’ve got servers I manage. All of those VPNs use OpenVPN, all...
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Getting started with LXD – the container lightervisor
Introduction For the past 6 months, Serge Hallyn, Tycho Andersen, Chuck Short, Ryan Harper and myself have been very busy working on a new container project called LXD. Ubuntu 15.04, due to be released...
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NorthSec 2015: behind the scenes
TLDR: NorthSec is an incredible security event, our CTF simulates a whole internet for every participating team. This allows us to create just about anything, from a locked down country to millions of...
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LXC 2.0 has been released!
Introduction Today I’m very pleased to announce the release of LXC 2.0, our second Long Term Support Release! LXC 2.0 is the result of a year of work by the LXC community with over 700 commits done by...
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Custom user mappings in LXD containers
Introduction As you may know, LXD uses unprivileged containers by default. The difference between an unprivileged container and a privileged one is whether the root user in the container is the “real”...
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A month later
It’s now been a whole month since I left Canonical and started working as an independent! This has been quite the month, both professionally and personally!In no particular order, this included,...
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