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Canonical
27 October 2015

Charm Partner Programme welcomes Inlab Networks

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Canonical is excited to announce that Inlab Networks has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling with a click of a mouse. Juju makes...

Canonical
27 October 2015


Canonical
26 October 2015

1-Net joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

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Canonical is pleased to welcome 1-Net Singapore Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of MediaCorp, as its first Certified Public Cloud partner in South East Asia. 1-Net has initially enabled a suite of Infrastructure as a Service products and will quickly move into offering Software as a Service plans. Its public IaaS service –...

Canonical
26 October 2015


Charles Butler
26 October 2015

Charming 2.0 – Now with 100% more awesome Pt.2

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Continuing from my blog last week, lets rewind to looking at a basic bash based historical charm. ├── config.yaml ├── hooks │   ├── config-changed │   ├── install │   ├── relation-name-relation-broken │   ├── relation-name-relation-changed │   ├── relation-name-relation-departed │   ├── relation-name-relation-joined │  ...

Charles Butler
26 October 2015


Guest
26 October 2015

An nova-compute-lxd update

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For the past couple of months, we have been working hard on adding new features to nova-compute-lxd (nclxd). The new features that have been added go beyond starting and stopping containers, to make it more useful for day to day use. An example is container migration: The above video shows a container migrating between two

Guest
26 October 2015


Adam Israel
22 October 2015

MySQL performance tuning between disk types

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Introduction We sat down with the intent to benchmark various flavors of MySQL (Oracle MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona) on Amazon EC2 in order to measure the difference between the three on identical hardware, backed by spinning rust and SSD storage. The wheels on that bus came off quickly, though, as we realized there was no

Adam Israel
22 October 2015


Mark Baker
22 October 2015

Join Canonical at the OpenStack Summit Tokyo

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The OpenStack Summit in Tokyo is nearly upon us, infact my Twitter stream is already filling up with messages from fellow conference attendees who have arrived early to see some of the sights in Tokyo. If you are lucky enough to be going to Tokyo for the OpenStack Summit be sure not to miss the

Mark Baker
22 October 2015


Charles Butler
22 October 2015

Charming 2.0 – Now with 100% more awesome

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Editors Note: This post is one of many in a series covering the newpatterns in charming. This first post will be information heavy andcover a walkthrough of the techonologies at play. Video content andadditional tutorials will follow.It’s been an exciting couple of months for the Juju Charmers. If you’ve beenfollowing...

Charles Butler
22 October 2015


Canonical
22 October 2015

What’s new in Ubuntu 15.10: cloud and server?

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General availability of Canonical’s OpenStack Autopilot, the fastest and easiest way to build an Ubuntu OpenStack cloud LXD machine containers: a pure container hypervisor hosting Ubuntu, CentOS and other Linux guests Tech Preview:  nova-compute-lxd OpenStack driver for machine containers Tech Preview: DPDK fast network...

Canonical
22 October 2015


Andrew McLeod
19 October 2015

Juju Big Data at Strata+Hadoop World

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Earlier this month, myself and Kevin — another member of the Juju big data team — attended the 2015 Strata+Hadoop World conference in New York City. As my first big data conference since joining the Juju team, it was an impressive experience, both running the competition pod at our Canonical booth and hearing speakers go

Andrew McLeod
19 October 2015


Jorge O. Castro
19 October 2015

Announcing the 2nd Juju Charmer Summit

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After a wonderful start in Washington DC the Juju Charmer Summit is back! This time we’ll be colocated with Config Management Camp, 1-3 February 2016, in beautiful Gent, Belgium. Join us for three full days of training, workshops, talks, and community collaboration with other automation tool communities. We’ve launch a...

Jorge O. Castro
19 October 2015


Canonical
15 October 2015

Quobyte joins the Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to announce that Quobyte has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling with a click of a mouse. Juju makes it easy...

Canonical
15 October 2015


Canonical
13 October 2015

The System76 Superfan contest

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Ubuntu enables a thriving ecosystem of suppliers who offer commercial devices and services around the OS. This is a guest post from System76, the technology company that builds all their retail devices for Ubuntu. All System76 laptops, desktops and servers are loaded with Ubuntu and are custom built to every order. With...

Canonical
13 October 2015


John Dolen
8 October 2015

Ubuntu with IBM Power Systems LC models for big data

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Juju makes it easy to model and deploy Spark and other analytics solution bundles IBM has extended its range of Ubuntu supported systems with today’s announcement of the Power Systems LC models. Canonical, along with fellow OpenPOWER Foundation members – Mellanox, NVIDIA, Tyan and Wistron, collaborated with IBM on the...

John Dolen
8 October 2015


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 October 2015

BootStack managed cloud factsheet

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BootStack, is a the fully managed cloud offer from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. BootStack is a true end to end offer including the design, implementation, and ongoing management of an OpenStack cloud on Ubuntu, followed by an optional transfer of the management function to the customer if desired. The cloud...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 October 2015