Blog posts tagged
“fan”

4 posts

Canonical
24 June 2015

Ubuntu Fan Images

Article Cloud and server

This week, Dustin Kirkland announced the Ubuntu Fan Project.  To steal from the description, “The Fan is not a software-defined network, and relies on neither distributed databases nor consensus protocols.  Rather, routes are calculated

Canonical
24 June 2015

Canonical
24 June 2015

Introducing the Fan – simpler container networking

Article Cloud and server

Canonical just announced a new, free, and very cool way to provide thousands of IP addresses to each of your VMs on AWS. Check out the fan networking on Ubuntu wiki page to get started, or read Dustin’s excellent fan walkthrough. Carry on here for a simple description of this happy little dose of awesome.

Canonical
24 June 2015

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

Container-to-Container Networking: The Bits have Hit the Fan!

Article Cloud and server

A thing of beautyIf you read my last post, perhaps you followed the embedded instructions and ran hundreds of LXD system containers on your own Ubuntu machine.Or perhaps you’re already a Docker enthusiast and your super savvy microservice architecture orchestrates dozens of applications among a pile of process...

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

The Fan overlay network for container addresses, from Canonical

Article Cloud and server

Today, Canonical introduces the Fan overlay network system in Ubuntu in test images for Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, delivering the fastest and most scalable address expansion mechanism in the container world. The Fan enables cloud users to grow the number of Docker and LXD containers they can address...

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015