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1 Lxd introduction

1-Lxd_introduction

• 1 - LXD

1 - LXD

• What’s LXD
• simple CLI
• Fast: LXC containers
• Secure: Use Kernel security feature and namespaces (next: capabilities support)

• Scalable: Daemon + REST API running of multiple Hosts

• What LXD is NOT

• NOT virtualization (Even if “full” OS running thanks to LXC)
• NOT a fork of LXC (Part of the team of LXC)
• NOT an application manager (not like K8s / Mesos marathon, …)

Demo

https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it/

• Admin:
• Can do HOT resources properties changes

• Intergation with Host FS for snapshoting (ZFS, BTRFS, soon LVM2)

• Interaction:

• Nice CLI to interract with a running container
• lxc push file <container>
• lxc pull <container>:file <host>:<PATH>

• lxc edit

• Images:

• Based on Git workflow with REPOS
• lxc remote
• lxc push
• lxc pull
  

• Next
• Support for Docker container format
• Improve migration (running state)
• Integration into openstack

• Integration into Juju

• Contribute

• Go
• API clients in Go and Python (Currently)
• Apache2 Licence