Tycho Andersen: “Live migration in LXD“ (Canonical)

Tycho Andersen / USA. Denver / Software Engineer / Canonical Tycho is a software engineer at Canonical actively working on several cloud-related projects, most recently as one of the core developers of LXD, an open source Linux Container based hypervisor. He holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin--Madison and Iowa State University, and has co-authored several peer-reviewed papers. In his spare time he rides bikes and does improv comedy. Live migration in LXD “With the release of LXD 2.0 and Ubuntu , live migration of Linux Containers is now available for the first time in a long term support release of Ubuntu. Leading up to this release was several years of work in both the Linux kernel and a userspace tool called CRIU maintained by engineers at Virtuozzo, as well as coordinating efforts from the container runtime liblxc. In this talk, I’ll give a basic overview of what actually happens when a container is live migrated from one host to ano