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Canonical
12 April 2016

Ubuntu OpenStack growth confirmed by latest OpenStack User Survey

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The most recent OpenStack user survey has gone live. In it we see tremendous growth for Ubuntu OpenStack in production clouds. We’re super excited about the support the community continues to show for Ubuntu. Here at Canonical we get to work with the world’s largest production OpenStack clouds, from telco to big data and pure

Canonical
12 April 2016


Canonical
7 April 2016

LXD networking: lxdbr0 explained

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Recently, LXD stopped depending on lxc, and thus moved to using its own bridge, called lxdbr0. lxdbr0 behaves significantly differently than lxcbr0: it is ipv6 link local only by default (i.e. there is no ipv4 or ipv6 subnet configured by default), and only HTTP traffic is proxied over the network. This means that e.g. you

Canonical
7 April 2016


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 April 2016

infographic: How many people use Ubuntu?

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Discover the range of industries, people and services that are using Ubuntu right now. Netflix. Snapchat. Dropbox. Uber. Tesla…and the International space station – what do they all have in common? They run on Ubuntu. To celebrate our upcoming 16.04 LTS we wanted to shine a bit of light on how many people in the

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 April 2016


TaNeisha Page
6 April 2016

OpenStack Spotlight – Ryan Beisner & James Wengraf

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This week we were able to catch up with Ryan Beisner who is an OpenStack QA Engineer. Ryan is super excited to share his experience with Canonical and his excitement about attending the OpenStack Summit. How long have you been with the company? I’m in my third year with Canonical.  In many ways, it has

TaNeisha Page
6 April 2016


James Donner
5 April 2016

Canonical Cloud Chatter: March 2016

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The focus for March has been preparing for our presence at the OpenStack Summit next month. We also announced our collaboration with Tele2 on moving their Network and IT infrastructure to the cloud. As always, you can learn more about Juju, MAAS, LXD and partner ecosystem updates in this month’s newsletter. Webinar:...

James Donner
5 April 2016


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
1 April 2016

Infographic: OpenStack Interoperability Lab explained

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OIL (short for OpenStack Interoperability Lab) is an integration lab by Canonical, where we repeatedly test our cloud partners’ products, in countless Ubuntu OpenStack configurations. OIL demonstrates why our solution is trustworthy and the preferred choice over competing solutions. The infographic below introduces the...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
1 April 2016


Stéphane Graber
1 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Image management [5/12]

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This is the fifth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Container imagesIf you’ve used LXC before, you probably remember those LXC “templates”, basically shell scripts that spit out a container filesystem and a bit of configuration.Most templates generate the filesystem by doing a full distribution bootstrapping on...

Stéphane Graber
1 April 2016


Dustin Kirkland
1 April 2016

Still have questions about Bash and Ubuntu on Windows?

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Still have questions about Ubuntu on Windows?Watch this Channel 9 session, recorded live at Build this week, hosted by Scott Hanselman, with questions answered by Windows kernel developers Russ Alexander, Ben Hillis, and myself representing Canonical a

Dustin Kirkland
1 April 2016


Ellen Arnold
31 March 2016

NFLabs joins the Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to welcome NFLabs to the Charm Partner Programme.  The Charm Partner Programme enables Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to use the full power of Juju, the award-winning cloud services modelling and application abstraction tool from Canonical. Juju is for IT architects, administrators, devops,...

Ellen Arnold
31 March 2016


Dustin Kirkland
30 March 2016

Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers

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I’m in San Francisco this week, attending Microsoft’s Build developer conference, as a sponsored guest of Microsoft.That’s perhaps a bit odd for me, as I hadn’t used Windows in nearly 16 years.  But that changed a few months ago, as I embarked on

Dustin Kirkland
30 March 2016


Stéphane Graber
30 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Resource control [4/12]

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This is the fourth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Available resource limitsLXD offers a variety of resource limits. Some of those are tied to the container itself, like memory quotas, CPU limits and I/O priorities. Some are tied to a particular device instead, like I/O bandwidth or disk usage limits.As with all...

Stéphane Graber
30 March 2016


Canonical
29 March 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 beta now available for LinuxONE and z Systems

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Ubuntu 16.04 is now available on IBM LinuxONE, System z12 and z13 providing an idea platform for developers using IoT applications. Ubuntu is the platform of choice for organisations running scale-out, next-generation workloads in the Cloud. Ubuntu dominates public cloud guest volume and production OpenStack deployments...

Canonical
29 March 2016


Ellen Arnold
24 March 2016

credativ joins the Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to welcome credativ to the Charm Partner Programme. The Charm Partner Programme enables Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to use the full power of Juju, the award­ winning cloud services modeling and application abstraction tool from Canonical. Juju makes it easy for administrators and DevOps...

Ellen Arnold
24 March 2016


TaNeisha Page
24 March 2016

OpenStack Spotlight – Bill Bauman & Francisco Hernandez

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We caught up with Bill Bauman the Cloud Content Marketing Manager at Canonical to give us an insight into his work and his love for technology. What do you do at Canonical I came from a technical background, but at Canonical I run content and strategy for our cloud marketing team. That means I get

TaNeisha Page
24 March 2016