Stéphane Graber

Introduction And we’re back from the holidays! This “weekly” summary is covering everything that happened the past 3 weeks. The big highlight was the release of LXD 2.21 on the 19th of December. During the holidays, we merged quite a number of bugfixes and smaller features in LXC and LXD with the bigger feature development only resuming

Introduction This is our last status update before we break for the holidays. On the LXD side of things, this past week saw the inclusion of a couple of minor features (–all flag and boot.stop.priority option) and quite a few bugfixes. In low level LXC, a lot of changes have been going on to improve handling of application

Introduction This past week was incredibly busy and featureful for both LXC and LXD. We landed Infinband support in LXD, alongside new configuration keys to control the presence of /dev/lxd in the container and support for pre-migration of memory during container live-migration. That’s on top of a variety of bugfixes and other still ongoi

Introduction Focus this week has been on infiniband support and more clustering related work with a number of bugfixes, cleanups and refactoring on the side. We’ve been doing some small tweaks and bugfixes on the LXD snap based on user feedback as more and more users are migrating to it. We’re also getting ready to

Introduction This week has been split between some upcoming feature work (infiniband and clustering), helping some new contributors get started with contributing to LXD and doing a lot of backports to the stable branches. Our stable branch backlog is now empty on all 3 projects and @brauner is now handling this for LXC with @stgraber

The highlight of this week was the release of LXD 2.20 which introduces a number of exciting new features. LXD 2.20 should now be available everywhere through both native packages and snap. We also started the process of deprecating the various LXD PPAs, see below for details. Our next milestone is LXD 2.21 in about

Introduction The main focus this past week has been on merging a pretty large refactoring branch on top of LXD. This moves a lot of code around to make it more testable and easier to plug in a new database implementation in preparation for some clustering features. We’ve done a few minor improvements like adding

Introduction Another pretty quiet week for LXD as we keep working on a number of larger features that aren’t ready to land yet. Now that the Ubuntu 18.04 development release is open for contributions, we’re pushing LXD 2.19, LXC 2.1.1 and LXCFS 2.0.8 there which will then trickle down to our various PPAs, stable Ubuntu

Introduction Last week @brauner and @stgraber were traveling to Prague for the Open Source Summit Europe. We got the opportunity to talk about LXD, system containers and various bits of ongoing kernel work as well as meet with a number of our users and contributors! All this travel and conference time reduced our ability to do feature wor

Introduction This week was busy with stable releases. All in all, we released: LXD 2.19 (feature release) LXC 1.0.11 (bugfix release) LXC 2.0.9 (bugfix release) LXC 2.1.1 (bugfix release) LXCFS 2.0.8 (bugfix release) LXD 2.0.11 (bugfix release) We’ve also merged support for external authentication in LXD, through support of macaroon authe

Introduction This past week, part of the team was back in New York for more planning meetings, getting the details of the next 6 months, including LXC, LXD and LXCFS 3.0 fleshed out. The rest of the team made good progress on some smaller feature work, started working on console attach for LXD, looked into

Weekly status for the week of the 25th of September to the 1st of October 2017. Introduction This past week the entire LXD team was working together in New York city. We used this opportunity to talk about our next round of LTS releases, LXC 3.0, LXD 3.0 and LXCFS 3.0, all to be released

This originally appeared at LinuxContainers Weekly status for the week of the 18th to the 24th of September 2017. Introduction The main highlight of this week was the release of LXD 2.18. We’ve otherwise been busy tracking down and fixing a number of issues, extended the user-agent string that LXD uses when talking to our image

Introduction This week has been pretty quiet as far as upstream changes since half the team was attending the Open Source Summity, the Linux Plumbers Conference and the Linux Security Summit in Los Angeles, California. We got to talk with other container runtime maintainers, kernel developers and users, having a lot of very productive dis

Introduction The highlight for this week is the release of LXC 2.1 which is the result of a year and a half of development making up 1528 commits by 96 contributors! We’ve also been working on LXD performance testing with lxd-benchmark getting expanded to record more data points and log in a format that we can generate

This article originally appeared at linuxcontainers.org The LXC team is proud to announce the release of LXC 2.1. This release contains a lot of new features introduced since the release of LXC 2.0. Note that this isn’t a LTS release and we’ll therefore only be supporting LXC 2.1 for a year. Production environments that require