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Canonical
23 March 2016

MWC 2016: Our biggest show yet

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  For the whole Canonical team, Mobile World Congress 2016 was a momentous event. Not only were we sitting alongside some of the biggest technology companies in the world in Hall 3, but our big, beautiful stand was the best yet; showing off our latest innovation perfectly. Mobile World Congress was the perfect place to

Canonical
23 March 2016


Chris Kenyon
23 March 2016

Tele2 begins major shift to cloud with Canonical

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Tele2, one of Europe’s most innovative telecom operators, announced today that it will move its Network and IT infrastructure to the cloud to pave the way for future investment and network build out to 5G. This move puts Tele2 at the vanguard of the move to Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), a once in a generation change

Chris Kenyon
23 March 2016


Stéphane Graber
22 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Your first LXD container [3/12]

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This is the third blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.As there are a lot of commands involved with managing LXD containers, this post is rather long. If you’d instead prefer a quick step-by-step tour of those same commands, you can try our online demo instead!Creating and starting a new containerAs I mentioned in the...

Stéphane Graber
22 March 2016


Ellen Arnold
17 March 2016

Juju Charm Partner News: March 2016

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In this issue: New features, tips and tricks: Juju’s Leadership feature Ecosystem growth: New Partners and Charms Upcoming events: Juju Office Hours, OpenStack Developer Summit and more Leadership With Juju 2.0 around the corner we’d like to dedicate this month’s tips section to Leadership. In the Juju context when we...

Ellen Arnold
17 March 2016


Stéphane Graber
16 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Installing and configuring LXD [2/12]

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This is the second blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Where to get LXD and how to install itThere are many ways to get the latest and greatest LXD. We recommend you use LXD with the latest LXC and Linux kernel to benefit from all its features but we try to degrade gracefully where possible to support older Linux...

Stéphane Graber
16 March 2016


Christian Reis
15 March 2016

Renting bare-metal (as a Service) with MAAS

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With the amount of industry excitement around virtualized cloud, it is easy to downplay the importance of directly utilizing bare metal infrastructure. And yet bare-metal is the one thing every experienced operator knows they can rely on when deploying mission-critical services, representing guaranteed resource,...

Christian Reis
15 March 2016


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
14 March 2016

Flexwebhosting spins up services in record time with Canonical

Case study Cloud and server

Flexwebhosting is one of the largest web hosting providers in the Netherlands with over 60,000 customers and houses over 6,500 web servers in different data centers in Amsterdam. Working with Canonical and choosing its managed cloud offering Bootstack as well as its service modelling tool Juju helped reduce time to...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
14 March 2016


Christian Reis
14 March 2016

Delivering Cloud Storage using Ubuntu

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Are you offering cloud storage solutions to your end-customers? You could be, and given the potential, we reckon you should be. In the past 5 years software-defined storage (SDS) platforms like Ceph and Swift have evolved dramatically; today they are redefining the cost of durable, shared storage infrastructure...

Christian Reis
14 March 2016


Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD

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This is the first blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.A few common questions about LXDWhat’s LXD?At its simplest, LXD is a daemon which provides a REST API to drive LXC containers.Its main goal is to provide a user experience that’s similar to that of virtual machines but using Linux containers rather than hardware...

Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016


Jeff Pihach
10 March 2016

Juju GUI 2.1.0 – Juju 2.0 support and improvements to model creation

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We are excited to announce a new major release of the Juju GUI with support for Juju 2.0 (currently in beta). Juju 2.0 brings with it a ton of improvements, but one we’d like to highlight is the ability to create new models without needing to bootstrap them one by one. Interested? We explain all

Jeff Pihach
10 March 2016


James Donner
4 March 2016

Canonical Cloud Chatter: February 2016

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February was dominated by Mobile World Congress preparations, followed by an intense week in Barcelona. In parallel, we worked on our latest webinar, launched a new OpenStack cloud solution, and started planning for the OpenStack Summit in Austin! Read up to learn about our newest partners, and don’t forget to check out...

James Donner
4 March 2016


Guest
3 March 2016

Pentaho Data Integration quickly with Juju

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Tom Barber at Meteorite explains how beneficial Juju Charms has been when migrating customer services from old, tricky servers. I promised a demo of Juju GUI in my earlier blog and we’ve worked hard on a Pentaho Data Integration charm, so I figured we’d combine the two. For those of you who don’t know, Juju

Guest
3 March 2016


Ellen Arnold
2 March 2016

Cognitive computing, Ubuntu and POWER8

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Create a competitive advantage with cognitive computing, and see how IBM has brought back innovation with the OpenPOWER foundation. Last week we attended IBM InterConnect 2016, where we showcased Ubuntu OpenStack, MAAS and Juju on IBM Power Systems. There is a natural synergy between the POWER architecture and Ubuntu,...

Ellen Arnold
2 March 2016


Guest
1 March 2016

Juju 2.0 and LXD opens a whole new dimension to developing BI apps

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I’ve been itching to write this post since I got back from Config Mgmt Camp in Gent a few weeks ago. The developers over at Canonical are gearing up to launch Juju 2.0. Maybe not yet a household name in the devops land but it is certainly making waves and with a company like Canonical

Guest
1 March 2016