Cloud and Server

All you need to know about designing, building, and managing your
OpenStack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale-out deployment.


Stéphane Graber
8 June 2016

LXD 2.0: LXD and Juju [10/12]

Article Cloud and server

Juju is Canonical’s service modeling and deployment tool. It supports a very wide range of cloud providers to make it easy for you to deploy any service you want on any cloud you want.On top of that, Juju 2.0 also includes support for LXD, both for local deployments, ideal for development and as a way to co-locate...

Stéphane Graber
8 June 2016


Jorge O. Castro
7 June 2016

Apache Bigtop and Juju: a charming approach to big data

Article Cloud and server

Juju users have been enjoying our collection of Big Data charms for over two years. During this time, we’ve learned a lot about what our users want from this complex corner of big software. The Apache Bigtop community distills best practices for installing big data software. They extensively test and package Apache big...

Jorge O. Castro
7 June 2016


Canonical
6 June 2016

Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations

News Cloud and server

Vendors delivering SAAS experience on-premises with Juju charms Charms encapsulate deployment, integration, management, support, operations Reusable charms greatly reduce the operations cost of big software Centres of gravity around big data, machine learning and container management Rapid growth in use of Juju for...

Canonical
6 June 2016


Guest
31 May 2016

Building a nervous system for OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Big Software is a new class of software composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot design, deploy or operate them. OpenStack, Hadoop and container-based architectures are all byproducts of Big Software. The only way to address the complexity is with automatic, AI-powered analytics. Summary...

Guest
31 May 2016


Carla Berkers
24 May 2016

Autopilot: benefits of early release

User Experience Cloud and server

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform, and Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. Over the

Carla Berkers
24 May 2016


Forrester Research report: accelerate your cloud expansion

White paper Cloud and server

Cloud is now mainstream, but what’s holding it back, what are the biggest concerns of technology decision makers? Are industry leaders choosing public, private or hybrid clouds? Canonical has commissioned Forrester Consulting to explore enterprise cloud platform trends and adoption. Learn about: Most popular cloud...


eBook: CTO’s guide to SDN, NFV & VNF

White paper Cloud and server

  Networking and communications standards and methodologies are undergoing the greatest transition since the migration from analogue to digital. The shift is from function-specific, proprietary devices to software-enabled commodity hardware. Why is the transition happening and why is it important? Read this eBook to:...


Dustin Kirkland
10 May 2016

Using containers to create the world’s fastest OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Below you can find the audio/video recording of my OpenStack 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 slide

Dustin Kirkland
10 May 2016


matt-c-irvine
5 May 2016

What’s possible with Ubuntu on Mainframe?

Article Cloud and server

IBM Systems Magazine Webinar “Discover the Cloud and Scale Out World of Ubuntu”held on 27 April 2016 Recently announced support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on IBM LinuxONE and z Systems has created a paradigm shift in a world that often does not see much change. Systems that cannot fail, systems that the world relies on,

matt-c-irvine
5 May 2016


Christian Ehrhardt
5 May 2016

The new simplicity to consume DPDK

Article Cloud and server

DPDK is a fast moving project comprised of a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It utilizes polling threads, huge pages, numa locality and multi core processing to achieve low latencies and a high packet processing rate. Up until recently most guides to consume or experiment with DPDK looked like...

Christian Ehrhardt
5 May 2016


Gustavo Niemeyer
4 May 2016

Security confinement in Ubuntu Core

Article Cloud and server

As much anticipated, the recent release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS included integrated support for snaps on classic Ubuntu. The snap format is part of Ubuntu Core, a modern software platform that includes the ability to define rich interfaces between snaps that control their security and confinement, comprehensive observation...

Gustavo Niemeyer
4 May 2016


Dustin Kirkland
27 April 2016

Ubuntu & IBM on POWER and LinuxOne Webinar

Article Cloud and server

I’m delighted to share the slides from our joint IBM and Canonical webinar about Ubuntu on IBM POWER8 and LinuxOne servers.  You can download the PDF here, watch the recording here, or tab through the slides or watch the video embedded below. &nbs

Dustin Kirkland
27 April 2016


Stéphane Graber
25 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Live migration [9/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the ninth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionOne of the very exciting feature of LXD 2.0, albeit experimental, is the support for container checkpoint and restore.Simply put, checkpoint/restore means that the running container state can be serialized down to disk and then restored, either on the...

Stéphane Graber
25 April 2016


Samuel Cozannet
25 April 2016

Making deep learning accessible on Openstack

Article Cloud and server

This week at the Openstack Developers Summit we are excited to showcase how Canonical with IBM, Mesosphere, Skymind and Data Fellas are working together to make the opportunities of deep learning easier for everyone to access. Deep learning is a completely new way of building applications. These applications, built...

Samuel Cozannet
25 April 2016