With the recent release of Ubuntu 15.04, aka “Vivid Vervetâ€, the Ubuntu community has also unveiled an early release of LXD (pronounced “lex-deeâ€), a new project aimed at revitalizing the use of LXC and LXC-based containers in the face of application container efforts such as Docker and rkt. In this post, I’ll provide a quick introduction to LXD.
To make it easier to follow along with some of the examples of using LXD, I’ve created an lxd directory in my GitHub “learning-tools†repository. In that directory, you’ll find a Vagrantfile that will allow you to quickly and easily spin up one or more VMs with LXD.
Read more at Scott Lowe’s Blog.
