Thursday, February 23, 2017

The Questions that You're Afraid to Ask about Containers



Yesterday, I delivered a talk to a lively audience at ContainerWorld in Santa Clara, California.

If I measured "the most interesting slides" by counting "the number of people who took a picture of the slide", then by far "the most interesting slides" are slides 8-11, which pose an answer the question:
"Should I run my PaaS on top of my IaaS, or my IaaS on top of my PaaS"?
In the Ubuntu world, that answer is super easy -- however you like!  At Canonical, we're happy to support:
  1. Kubernetes running on top of Ubuntu OpenStack
  2. OpenStack running on top of Canonical Kubernetes
  3. Kubernetes running along side OpenStack
In all cases, the underlying substrate is perfectly consistent:
  • you've got 1 to N physical or virtual machines
  • which are dynamically provisioned by MAAS or your cloud provider
  • running stable, minimal, secure Ubuntu server image
  • carved up into fast, efficient, independently addressable LXD machine containers
With that as your base, we'll easily to conjure-up a Kubernetes, an OpenStack, or both.  And once you have a Kubernetes or OpenStack, we'll gladly conjure-up one inside the other.


As always, I'm happy to share my slides with you here.  You're welcome to download the PDF, or flip through the embedded slides below.



Cheers,
Dustin

Friday, February 17, 2017

HOWTO: Automatically import your public SSH keys into LXD Instances

Just another reason why LXD is so awesome...

You can easily configure your own cloud-init configuration into your LXD instance profile.

In my case, I want cloud-init to automatically ssh-import-id kirkland, to fetch my keys from Launchpad.  Alternatively, I could use gh:dustinkirkland to fetch my keys from Github.

Here's how!

First, edit your default LXD profile (or any other, for that matter):

$ lxc profile edit default

Then, add the config snippet, like this:

config:
  user.vendor-data: |
    #cloud-config
    users:
      - name: root
        ssh-import-id: gh:dustinkirkland
        shell: /bin/bash
description: Default LXD profile
devices:
  eth0:
    name: eth0
    nictype: bridged
    parent: lxdbr0
    type: nic
name: default

Save and quit in your interactive editor, and then launch a new instance:

$ lxc launch ubuntu:x
Creating amazed-manatee
Starting amazed-manatee

Find your instance's IP address:

$ lxc list
+----------------+---------+----------------------+----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+
|      NAME      |  STATE  |         IPV4         |                     IPV6                     |    TYPE    | SNAPSHOTS |
+----------------+---------+----------------------+----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+
| amazed-manatee | RUNNING | 10.163.22.135 (eth0) | fdce:be5e:b787:f7d2:216:3eff:fe1c:773 (eth0) | PERSISTENT | 0         |
+----------------+---------+----------------------+----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+

And now SSH in!

$ ssh ubuntu@10.163.22.135
$ ssh -6 ubuntu@fdce:be5e:b787:f7d2:216:3eff:fe1c:773

Enjoy!
:-Dustin

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Kubernetes InstallFest at ContainerWorld -- Feb 21, 2017!


We at Canonical have been super busy fine tuning your experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and LXD on Ubuntu!

Amazingly, you're merely two commands away from standing up a fully functional, minimal Kubernetes cluster on any Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system...

$ sudo snap install --classic conjure-up
$ conjure-up kubernetes-core

Or, if you're feeling more enterprisey and want the full experience, try:

$ conjure-up canonical-kubernetes

I hope to meet some of you at ContainerWorld in Santa Clara next week.  Marco Ceppi and I are running a Kubernetes installfest workshop on Tuesday, February 21, 2017, from 3pm - 4:30pm.  I can guarantee that every single person who attends will succeed in deploying their own Kubernetes cluster to a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or Google), or to their Ubuntu laptop or VM.

Also, I'm giving a talk entitled, "Using the Right Container Technology for the Job", on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 from 1:30pm - 2:10pm.

Finally, I invite you to check out this 30-minute podcast with David Daly, from DevOpsChat, where we talked quite a bit about Containers and Kubernetes and the experience we're working on in Ubuntu...


Cheers,
:-Dustin