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.


Christian Reis
20 January 2016

MAAS 1.9: Taking bare-metal beyond “minimal provisioning”

Article Cloud and server

Complex node configuration now fully supported, including NIC bonding, tagged VLANs, bcache, LVM, software RAID devices and more One of the (only somewhat unsung) heroes in the MAAS user community is Ante Karamatić. Ante is the lead of a consulting team which does complex deployments for telecom cloud providers, and...

Christian Reis
20 January 2016


Dustin Kirkland
20 January 2016

Data Driven Analysis: /tmp on tmpfs

Article Cloud and server

tl;drPut /tmp on tmpfs and you’ll improve your Linux system’s I/O, reduce your carbon foot print and electricity usage, stretch the battery life of your laptop, extend the longevity of your SSDs, and provide stronger security.In fact, we should do that by default on Ubuntu servers and cloud images.Having tested 502...

Dustin Kirkland
20 January 2016


Marcin Kierdelewicz
15 January 2016

Ubuntu is coming to a city near you

Article Cloud and server

Happy New Year! I’ve been busy planning our first ever Ubuntu Day. Ubuntu Day is a local event organised with our partners to support awareness and adoption of Ubuntu technologies in local markets. It’s an opportunity for people to learn about Ubuntu Cloud products directly from the experts, and to obtain some technical...

Marcin Kierdelewicz
15 January 2016


Udi Nachmany
14 January 2016

5 reasons you should only use certified images on the public cloud

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu has a long history in the cloud. Not only is it the world’s number one platform for deployments of OpenStack (as we’ve covered here), it also runs more public cloud workloads than all other platforms combined. Fast, secure, and proven in the most demanding production environments, it is extremely popular with the...

Udi Nachmany
14 January 2016


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
14 January 2016

Big Data Explained, Analysed, Solved

White paper Cloud and server

This eBook gives an overview of what big data is and its growing importance. Download this eBook to answer the following questions: What is Big Data and what different types of Big Data are there? What is the increasing importance of Big Data? What applications / tools managed services / clouds should I use to

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
14 January 2016


Canonical
13 January 2016

AT&T selects Ubuntu for cloud and enterprise applications

News Cloud and server

AT&T has selected Canonical to be part of its effort to drive innovation in the network and cloud. Canonical will provide the Ubuntu OS and engineering support for AT&T’s cloud, network and enterprise applications. AT&T chose Ubuntu based on its demonstrated innovation, and performance as the leading platform for...

Canonical
13 January 2016


Tom Haddon
12 January 2016

Mojo Updates

Article Cloud and server

It’s been a while since we’ve talked about Mojo, and since then, there have been quite a few changes. I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some of the recent updates to Mojo and then talk about our plans for future improvements. Mojo what? So what is Mojo anyway? It’s a tool for deploying,

Tom Haddon
12 January 2016


Canonical
6 January 2016

New Year, New Data

Article Cloud and server

Happy New Year, everybody! I hope everyone had a chance to take a break over the holiday season. At Canonical, we generally take a break the last week of the year. It gave me a chance to catch up on some shows I’d recorded to watch later. Upon returning to our duties this week, we

Canonical
6 January 2016


Jorge O. Castro
5 January 2016

Celebrating over 10 million Vagrant Ubuntu downloads

Article Cloud and server

Vagrant is a popular devops tool because it allows developers to easily manage virtual machines on their laptop. While this sounds easy, Vagrant allows people to finally develop on their machines using the same libraries as the operating system that’s in their server room. And since it uses virtual machines, everything...

Jorge O. Castro
5 January 2016


Dustin Kirkland
22 December 2015

More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows

Article Cloud and server

People of earth, waving at Saturn, courtesy of NASA.“It Doesn’t Look Like Ubuntu Reached Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year”, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix, in a post that it seems he’s been itching to post for months.Why the negativity?!? Are you sure? Did you count all of them?No one has.  And no one can count...

Dustin Kirkland
22 December 2015


James Donner
22 December 2015

Juju Charmer Summit: Docker Lightning Talk

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu is the number one platform for Docker deployments by a wide margin. With Juju, deploying Docker is as easy as a visit to the charm store. Join Canonical’s Charles Butler for a five minute lightning talk to learn about What the Juju team are doing with Docker The Juju Solutions community on Github The

James Donner
22 December 2015


James Donner
18 December 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: December 2015

Article Cloud and server

With the holiday season upon us, we are feeling festive! Before you start your holiday, here’s a bit about what we’ve been up to lately! We have just release an eBook on Big Data for Telcos and a new webinar about upgrades of OpenStack with running workloads. Meanwhile, we have news about new Charm partners

James Donner
18 December 2015


Canonical
16 December 2015

Resolving Big Data in the New Year

Article Cloud and server

It’s probably best to have your New Year’s resolutions planned before January 1st is actually here. I started talking about this a few days ago with my friends. I have a few things in mind, one is to ride a century ride on my bike this year (that’s 100 miles or 160km). Another is to

Canonical
16 December 2015


Canonical
15 December 2015

WANdisco joins the Charm Partner Programme

News Cloud and server

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

Canonical
15 December 2015