[lxc-users] LXD online

[Stéphane Graber]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 09:20:23AM -0500, Luis Michael Ibarra wrote:
> 2015-11-02 19:57 GMT-05:00 Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:53:56PM -0500, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:38:18PM -0500, Luis Michael Ibarra wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I just noticed you could try LXD online[1], and it works surprisingly
> > well.
> > > >
> > > > Right now you only permit 50 containers, but what happens if I install
> > lxd
> > > > inside a container and try to create as many as I want? (get banned
> > asume).
> > > >
> > > > Nice work.
> > > >
> > > > [1]https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it
> > >
> > > No, you're free to create as many containers as you want within your
> > > demo session.
> > >
> > > We obviously have CPU, memory and disk quotas in place which you'll hit
> > > pretty quickly, triggering an OOM kill of processes inside your session
> > > though.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'll update the website to say "sessions" rather than "containers" when
> > > talking about the limit, it should make things a bit clearer.
> >
> > Also, note that this service is currently in beta and so has been known
> > to go offline for extended periods of time.
> >
> > We expect to announce it more widely over the coming days, including
> > releasing the code behind it on github.
> >
> 
> Ok, I posted on Reddit, but I deleted it after reading this.
> 
> I'll wait for the official announcement then.

Appreciated. It's now been announced in that Intro to LXD session I just
gave and has been referenced in a blog post by Dustin Kirkland earlier
today, so it's fine to make noise about it now!

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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