An nova-compute-lxd update

For the past couple of months, we have been working hard on adding new features to nova-compute-lxd (nclxd). The new features that have been added go beyond starting and stopping containers, to make it more useful for day to day use. An example is container migration:

The above video shows a container migrating between two nova-compute nodes. This feature is still very alpha, and the was deployed via the juju charm that we have. The environment is the following:

• nova-compute-lxd 0.18
• Ubuntu Wily Werewolf (15.10)
• OpenStack Liberty
• LXD 0.20

In the coming days I will be posting more content on how you can get yourself running nclxd with OpenStack.

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Chuck Short is a software engineer at Canonical. Originally from Vancouver but based in Ottawa, Chuck’s mission is to make sure OpenStack is a first class experience for both the X86 world and ARM world. You can follow his blog at zulcss.wordpress.com