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Charles Butler
13 July 2015

Automate DNS with Juju

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Announcing Third Party Support for the DNS CharmTo anybody that followed the DNS charmdevelopment last year I had a lofty goal of introducing a third party pluginframework, which allows the user to specify a third party DNS server, andreconfigures

Charles Butler
13 July 2015

Charles Butler
10 July 2015

Unofficial Juju Docker Images

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Using Juju in Docker for your projectsEarly this year the juju-solutions team has been experimenting with Juju inDocker – namely for isolation, and portability reasons. The Vagrant image givesa nice isolated and rebuildable environment – however the

Charles Butler
10 July 2015

Arturo Suarez
9 July 2015

Introducing utility pricing to your Managed Private Cloud

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Canonical is proud to introduce one of the most exciting, on-demand, usage-based consumption models yet – and it’s for our managed private cloud service, BootStack. While public cloud, consumption-based pricing has changed the economics (for the better) of how companies and individuals procure compute resources, private...

Arturo Suarez
9 July 2015

Canonical
8 July 2015

Learn About Landscape! ODS Keynote

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In complex computing scenarios, creating a holistic or unified update procedure across multiple clouds and hundreds of separate machines feels like an impossible task. And what do you want to do when your systems estate reaches the thousands, is it possible to automate and simplify cloud management so that thousands of...

Canonical
8 July 2015

Jorge O. Castro
6 July 2015

Juju at Dockercon 2015

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Canonical sent three Juju Ecosystem developers and one Juju core developer to Dockercon 2015 in San Francisco during which we participated in a multi-company hackathon team; threw a marketing event featuring industry luminaries; and made connections with many potential charm authors and partners. We learned loads,...

Jorge O. Castro
6 July 2015

Canonical
1 July 2015

Incubio joins the Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to announce that Incubio, one of the top three Big Data incubators in the world, has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make the best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment,...

Canonical
1 July 2015

Artur Tyloch
1 July 2015

Juju for Telcos and Service Providers Pt. 1

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I joined Canonical a year ago to work with the telco ecosystem – Network Operators, Communication Equipment Providers and innovative new players and startups interested in expanding or building their presence in the telco domain. During this year we have worked on many projects focused on the deployment of Virtual...

Artur Tyloch
1 July 2015

Canonical
30 June 2015

Publishing LXD images

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While some work remains to be done for ‘lxc publish’, the current support is sufficient to show a full cycle of image workload with lxd.Ubuntu wily comes with systemd by default. Sometimes you might need a wily container with upstart. And to repeatedly reproduce some tests on wily with upstart, you might want to...

Canonical
30 June 2015

Tom Callway
25 June 2015

It’s all about containers! ODS keynote

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It’s all about containers. All attention is turning to new and innovative variants of this cloud development technology. From LXC and Docker to our recent introduction, LXD – all signs point to an explosion in appetite for for containers, and the many benefits they bring to developers. Containers are revolutionizing the...

Tom Callway
25 June 2015

Adam Israel
25 June 2015

Announcing Benchmarking with Juju

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Benchmarking and performance are interesting problems, especially in today’s growing cloud-based microservice scene. It used to be a question of “how does this hardware compare to that hardware,” but as computing and service-oriented architectures grow the question has evolved. How does my cloud and application stack...

Adam Israel
25 June 2015

Ellen Arnold
24 June 2015

quasardb joins the Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to announce that quasardb 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 on virtually any public or private cloud,...

Ellen Arnold
24 June 2015

Canonical
24 June 2015

Ubuntu Fan Images

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This week, Dustin Kirkland announced the Ubuntu Fan Project. To steal from the description, “The Fan is not a software-defined network, and relies on neither distributed databases nor consensus protocols. Rather, routes are calculated

Canonical
24 June 2015

Introducing the Fan – simpler container networking

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Canonical just announced a new, free, and very cool way to provide thousands of IP addresses to each of your VMs on AWS. Check out the fan networking on Ubuntu wiki page to get started, or read Dustin’s excellent fan walkthrough. Carry on here for a simple description of this happy little dose of awesome.

Canonical
24 June 2015

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

Container-to-Container Networking: The Bits have Hit the Fan!

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A thing of beautyIf you read my last post, perhaps you followed the embedded instructions and ran hundreds of LXD system containers on your own Ubuntu machine.Or perhaps you’re already a Docker enthusiast and your super savvy microservice architecture orchestrates dozens of applications among a pile of process...

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

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.

All you need to know about designing, building, and managing your
OpenStack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale-out deployment.