[kwlug-disc] [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: LXD, SSH Tricks (Dec 2018)

[Chris Frey]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 03:24:33AM -0500, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-announce wrote:
> LXD offers sysadmins and enthusiasts lightweight containerization that
> is easy to experiment with, and which attempts to be secure out of the
> box. LXD exposes a REST API and some tools to set up containers and
> control them. In his first KWLUG presentation, Mikalai Burukou will
> show us what LXD is and how it works. He says this will be a good talk
> for beginning systems adminsitrators or those who would like to dabble
> on the commandline. 

If anyone hasn't played with LXD yet, prepare to be blown away with
the fun of this. :-)

I remember going through the online demo and just being amazed.  It
can't virtualize everything (like devices) but for simple software
containerization, it's a wonderful tool.

- Chris