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Dustin Kirkland
on 10 May 2016

Using containers to create the world’s fastest OpenStack

LXD mitaka OpenStack

Above you can watch the video recording of my OpenStack Summit Austin presentation where I demonstrated Ubuntu OpenStack Mitaka running on top of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, entirely within LXD machine containers. You can also download the PDF of the slides here.

Don’t forget that later today my colleague Mark Baker will be hosting a free webinar explaining why you shouldn’t wait to upgrade to OpenStack Mitaka. Sign-up

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