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Stéphane Graber
25 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Live migration [9/12]

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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

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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

TaNeisha Page
23 April 2016

OpenStack Spotlight Carlos Gonzales and Josh McJilton

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Carlos Gonzales gives some insight about his role as a Engineer Manager for our Ecosystems and his outlook about meeting people at OpenStack. What does your department do at Canonical? My department develops, supports and sustain the OpenStack distribution as part of the Ubuntu package and Canonical’s Cloud product and...

TaNeisha Page
23 April 2016

John Zannos
22 April 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for IBM LinuxONE and IBM z Systems is now available

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With the release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS we now offer the same great Ubuntu experience on z Systems and LinuxONE servers as x86 and OpenPower platforms. Download now Ubuntu is the platform of choice for new cloud-native applications from modern development teams. It dominates public cloud guest volume and production...

John Zannos
22 April 2016

Canonical
20 April 2016

Canonical unveils 6th LTS release of Ubuntu with 16.04

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Introduces “snaps” for new robust, secure app format Introduces LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka Supports IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with flat pricing Steps towards converged Ubuntu across IOT, Phone, Desktop and Server Introduces ZFS and CephFS for large-scale cloud storage LONDON 20th April 2016:...

Canonical
20 April 2016

TaNeisha Page
19 April 2016

OpenStack Spotlight – Alexia Emmanoulopoulou and Danny Hammo

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In this blog series, learn about life at Canonical through the employees working on the cloud side. Alexia Emmanoulopoulou: Marketing Manager – Demand Generation Describe what do you do at Canonical I am a Demand Generation Marketing Manager in the Cloud Marketing team, responsible for the execution of marketing...

TaNeisha Page
19 April 2016

John Zannos
19 April 2016

Mesosphere announce open source project backed by Canonical

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Today Mesosphere announced the open source release of the DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) Project, backed by dozens of partners including Canonical. DC/OS supplies an operating system model for the datacenter building on the Apache Mesos environment. The DC/OS project is an open source technology and a building...

John Zannos
19 April 2016

Stéphane Graber
18 April 2016

Directly interacting with the LXD API

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The next post in the LXD series is currently blocked on a pending kernel fix, so I figured I’d do an out of series post on how to use the LXD API directly.Setting up the LXD daemonThe LXD REST API can be accessed over either a local Unix socket or over HTTPs. The protocol in both case is identical, the only difference...

Stéphane Graber
18 April 2016

Marco Ceppi
16 April 2016

Charm 2.0 makes it even easier to publish charms

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TL;DR There is a new package (and command) called charm that compliments the previous charm-tools package and provides a new way forward for managing charms and

Marco Ceppi
16 April 2016

Dustin Kirkland
15 April 2016

Docker 1.10 with Fan Networking in Ubuntu 16.04

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I’m thrilled to introduce Docker 1.10.3, supported on every Ubuntu architecture, for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and announce the General Availability of Ubuntu Fan Networking!That’s Ubuntu Docker binaries and Ubuntu Docker images for:armhf (rpi2, et al. IoT devices)arm64 (Cavium, et al. servers)i686 (does anyone seriously still...

Dustin Kirkland
15 April 2016

Stéphane Graber
15 April 2016

LXD 2.0: LXD in LXD [8/12]

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This is the eighth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionIn the previous post I covered how to run Docker inside LXD which is a good way to get access to the portfolio of application provided by Docker while running in the safety of the LXD environment.One use case I mentioned was offering a LXD container...

Stéphane Graber
15 April 2016

Dustin Kirkland
14 April 2016

HOWTO: Ubuntu on Windows

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As announced last week, Microsoft and Canonical have worked together to bring Ubuntu’s userspace natively into Windows 10.As of today, Windows 10 Insiders can now take Ubuntu on Windows for a test drive! Here’s how…1) You need to have a system

Dustin Kirkland
14 April 2016

Stéphane Graber
13 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Docker in LXD [7/12]

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This is the seventh blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Why run Docker inside LXDAs I briefly covered in the first post of this series, LXD’s focus is system containers. That is, we run a full unmodified Linux distribution inside our containers. LXD for all intent and purposes doesn’t care about the workload running...

Stéphane Graber
13 April 2016

Ellen Arnold
13 April 2016

ScaleDB joins the Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to announce that ScaleDB has joined the Charm Partner Programme (CPP). Canonical’s CPP helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal application modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling with a click of a mouse. The Juju Charm Store has...

Ellen Arnold
13 April 2016

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