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.


Jorge O. Castro
17 February 2016

Juju GUI 2.0.3 released

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The latest release of the Juju GUI has just been packaged up and brings with it a number of small but important bug fixes: Fixed an issue where deploying the same charm multiple times would generate invalid charm names. Fixed an issue where it would require two clicks to click between services on the canvas.

Jorge O. Castro
17 February 2016


Kevin W Monroe
16 February 2016

Juju Big Data hits the conference scene

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Though only a few weeks into 2016, the Juju Big Data team has already been busy engaging diverse communities at conferences and meetups. We’d like to share our perspective on a few of those engagements here. SCaLE 14x / UbuCon, Jan 20-24, Pasadena This year’s Southern California Linux Expo was especially exciting as it also

Kevin W Monroe
16 February 2016


Dustin Kirkland
16 February 2016

ZFS is *the* FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04!

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) is only a few short weeks away, and with it comes one of the most exciting new features Linux has seen in a very long time…ZFS — baked directly into Ubuntu — supported by Canonical.What is ZFS?ZFS is a combination of a vol

Dustin Kirkland
16 February 2016


Stéphane Graber
16 February 2016

Running snaps in LXD containers

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Introduction The LXD and AppArmor teams have been working to support loading AppArmor policies inside LXD containers for a while. This support which finally landed in the latest Ubuntu kernels now makes it possible to install snap packages. Snap packages … Continue reading →

Stéphane Graber
16 February 2016


Jorge O. Castro
15 February 2016

Introducing Juju Resources

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The Juju team have been working hard on a new feature coming up in Juju 2.0 called “Juju Resources”, and we’re now at a point where we can share the goodness and call for bugs/feedback! As noted in the video linked below, the feature isn’t quite complete, so expect some rough edges, and for some

Jorge O. Castro
15 February 2016


James Donner
12 February 2016

Telco Demos With Juju: APIdaze

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From Big Data to web services, there is so much that can be made with our service modeling tool Juju. As we count down to Mobile World Congress, we’ll be diving into the telco focused Juju solutions that make deploying innovative SaaS services simple. APIdaze provides an API for building telecom services and web applications.

James Donner
12 February 2016


Tom Callway
12 February 2016

Voting begins for OpenStack Austin talks

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We’ve submitted several talks to the OpenStack Summit in Austin. We’ve listed them all below with links to where to vote for each talk so if you think they are interesting – please vote for them! Understanding updates to the Ubuntu Cloud Archive Speaker: Mark Baker Over 2000 organisations build OpenStack clouds using...

Tom Callway
12 February 2016


Jorge O. Castro
11 February 2016

The Model of a Good Time: Juju Charmer Summit 2.0 @ cfgmgmntcamp

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Over 100 Juju enthusiasts gathered this week for our second Juju Charmer Summit in beautiful Gent, Belgium as part of the Config Management Camp. This was our first time officially participating and helping to sponsor the event, and we are proud to join the existing Ansible, Chef, CFEngine/Rudder, Foreman, Puppet, and...

Jorge O. Castro
11 February 2016


Jorge O. Castro
11 February 2016

Juju GUI 2.0 Release Introduction

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Jeff Pihach gives a run through of the new design of the latest release of the Juju GUI. We are always interested to hear what you think about the GUI and for input on what features you want to see next. We can be found on IRC on freenode.net in #juju and #juju-gui, on the

Jorge O. Castro
11 February 2016


Dustin Kirkland
10 February 2016

Docker, Alpine, Ubuntu, and You

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There’s no shortage of excitement, controversy, and readership, any time you can work “Docker” into a headline these days.  Perhaps a bit like “Donald Trump”, but for CIO tech blogs and IT news — a real hot button.  Hey, look, I even did it myself in the title of this post!Sometimes an article even starts out about...

Dustin Kirkland
10 February 2016


Ellen Arnold
10 February 2016

Federal Government experts Awnix join Canonical’s Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to welcome OpenStack solution provider Awnix to its Reseller Programme.  Awnix provides OpenStack solutions tailored to the US federal government.  Awnix is led by a team of technology experts with decades of experience serving the government and corporate markets. Awnix’s founders are former...

Ellen Arnold
10 February 2016


Guest
5 February 2016

Juju Charmers Summit: The Real Day

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Okay then, day 3. My liver is still pretty much functioning although hopefully I can “juju deploy new-liver” on my trip back to the UK. So what happened on day 3? Of course for those not interested in Juju there was no day 3, but for those who stuck around, hopefully they had a very

Guest
5 February 2016


Guest
5 February 2016

Juju Charmers Summit: Day 2

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I’ll be honest with you here, I love open source software evangelism, I will talk about it for days given an audience. You are my audience, so thank you very much…. Okay, so I won’t lie last night involved some consumption of alcohol. Luckily everyone rocked up pretty much on time, and then it rained

Guest
5 February 2016


Amrisha Prashar
4 February 2016

#UbuntuAtMWC Competition

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We’re really excited about MWC this year and can’t wait to showcase the various demos across Cloud and Devices! For those of you not going we’d love to offer you the chance to come and join us and see what we have on display – as our presence is even bigger and better than last

Amrisha Prashar
4 February 2016