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.


Mark Baker
27 July 2015

Voting begins for OpenStack Tokyo talks

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We’ve submitted several talks to the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo in Vancouver. 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! Creating business value with cross cloud infrastructure Speaker: Mark Shuttleworth Track: Enterprise IT...

Mark Baker
27 July 2015


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 July 2015

ODS Video: Driving quality control into OpenStack cloud development

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How do we make sure Ubuntu offers the best possible ecosystem of both hardware and software components for OpenStack? Chris Kenyon talks about how we’re driving quality into the OpenStack deployment journey in the latest of our OpenStack Summit keynotes. As the cloud landscape matures, enterprise customers are looking...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 July 2015


Canonical
24 July 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: July 2015 Newsletter

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School’s out for the summer – in the Northern Hemisphere – but we’ve been busy planning Juju workshops, adding new locations to our popular Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals Training course and preparing for a number of upcoming events! Read what’s new and exciting with Juju, containers and our partner ecosystem and get in...

Canonical
24 July 2015


Canonical
23 July 2015

Azul Systems joins Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

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DevOps Teams to be “Charmed” by Zulu, Azul’s 100% Open Source JDK DevOps teams will be able to deploy cloud-based, tested and certified open source Java directly from Canonical’s Charm store Azul’s Zulu build of OpenJDK becomes the first fully-supported Java distribution in Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme The...

Canonical
23 July 2015


Maarten Ectors
23 July 2015

More Juju, Big Data and Snappy Beauty from Dataart

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What do you get when you combine Juju with Spark & Apache Zeppelin, Raspberry Pi with Snappy, Bluetooth Low Energy, DeviceHive and a TI SensorTag? Check out the video from Dataart.

Maarten Ectors
23 July 2015


Artur Tyloch
23 July 2015

Juju for Telcos and Service Providers Pt. 2

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In the first blog of this series I introduced Juju and how it maps to the ETSI NFV architecture at the highest level. Now I’ll dig deeper into this relationship to see how it can be leveraged by telcos and service providers. So lets dive in… Juju is a neutral VNF modelling system Juju has

Artur Tyloch
23 July 2015


Matt Bruzek
21 July 2015

Kubernetes v1.0 is released!

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The Google Cloud Platform released version 1.0 of the Kubernetes project. The name “kubernetes” originates from Greek, meaning “helmsman” or “pilot”. Kubernetes is an open source software system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts. It handles the scheduling the nodes, and reorganizes the...

Matt Bruzek
21 July 2015


Charles Butler
21 July 2015

Launch the newly released kubernetes 1.0.0 with Juju

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Kubernetes 1.0 launched today!And in the spirit of Kubernetes reaching this major milestone, we’ve beentracking upstream development to enable a strong story across the two perspectivesa user can enter the container cluster management space: as a co

Charles Butler
21 July 2015


Canonical
21 July 2015

Vedams joins the Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to announce that Vedams 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. Juju makes it easy to deliver complete solutions in minutes, on virtually any public or private cloud...

Canonical
21 July 2015


Matt Bruzek
21 July 2015

Introducing Kubernetes version 1.0!

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A big congratulations to the Kubernetes project and community on releasing version 1.0 to the public! Kubernetes (a.k.a. k8s) is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts called a cluster.  Over the past six months we’ve had a small team of “container people” working to make...

Matt Bruzek
21 July 2015


Dustin Kirkland
20 July 2015

Prime Time: Docker, Juju, and Snappy Ubuntu Core

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As you probably remember from grade school math class, primes are numbers that are only divisible by 1 and themselves.  2, 3, 5, 7, and 11 are the first 5 prime numbers, for example.Many computer operations, such as public-key cryptography, depends entirely on prime numbers.  In fact, RSA encryption, invented in 1978,...

Dustin Kirkland
20 July 2015


Charles Butler
15 July 2015

Continuous Integration with Juju and Drone CI

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PreambleDelivering your Charms to the community can seem like an uphill climb when youhave minimal and manual testing around your project. The ~charmer review process ispretty rigerous and as anyone who has run the Gauntlet to attain ~recommendedst

Charles Butler
15 July 2015


Canonical
15 July 2015

Meteorite BI joins the Charm Partner Programme

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  Canonical is excited to announce that Meteorite BI has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modelling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling at the click of a button. Meteroite...

Canonical
15 July 2015


Jane Silber
13 July 2015

Introducing Anand Krishnan

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Canonical’s cloud business continues to grow at great speed. Driven by the adoption of Ubuntu as the preferred operating system at both the infrastructure and guest level, partners and customers alike value the automation, interoperability, ease of use and professional services that we offer. We provide the fastest,...

Jane Silber
13 July 2015