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Canonical
22 June 2015

Get Yourself a BootStack

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Canonical offers BootStack as a service to build and operate OpenStack clouds for its customers, with the option to transfer administration of a cloud to the customer, if and when the customer so desires. This means you can get yourself an OpenStack cloud running on your hardware, even on your premises, while we build and

Canonical
22 June 2015

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

The Fan overlay network for container addresses, from Canonical

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Today, Canonical introduces the Fan overlay network system in Ubuntu in test images for Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, delivering the fastest and most scalable address expansion mechanism in the container world. The Fan enables cloud users to grow the number of Docker and LXD containers they can address...

Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

Ellen Arnold
19 June 2015

Certivox joins the Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to announce that Certivox 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
19 June 2015

Francesco Banconi
19 June 2015

Juju Quickstart 2.2.0

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We are happy to announce the 2.2.0 release of Juju Quickstart! Juju Quickstart helps both new and experienced users to quickly start Juju and the Juju GUI, whether they’ve never installed Juju or they have an existing Juju environment running. From the last update on this blog, we introduced several new features like...

Francesco Banconi
19 June 2015

Canonical
18 June 2015

Certified Ubuntu images now optimized for Joyent Triton containers

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Joyent Expands Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure Beyond Docker, Adds Support for Container-Native Linux on Bare Metal Partners with Canonical to provide certified and supported Ubuntu images, optimized to run natively on bare metal on Triton Infrastructure Containers Joyent Inc., the container-native...

Canonical
18 June 2015

World’s first 25/100 gigabit open ethernet-based switch launches

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Canonical is delighted to support the launch of the world’s first 25/100 Gigabit open Ethernet-based switch, being introduced to the market today by Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX). The new switch runs on ‘Snappy’ Ubuntu Core and will offer a new level of flexibility for network environments. Mellanox is...

Canonical
18 June 2015

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
17 June 2015

12 Questions about Juju

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If you want to get the basics about Juju, here is a good place to start! 1) What is Juju? Juju is a state of the art, open source service modelling tool. It forms part of Ubuntu’s cloud portfolio, together with Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu OpenStack, MAAS for bare-metal provisioning, and Landscape for systems management and...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
17 June 2015

Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Deploying OpenStack from source to scalable multi-node environments

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The Juju OpenStack charms now have support for deploying OpenStack from source! This means that you can point the charms at the OpenStack git repositories/branches of your choice, whether they’re the well known upstream repos or your own modified repos, and deploy to your choice of substrate via Juju (to metal via MAAS,...

Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Canonical
12 June 2015

Zabbix + IoT/Snappy: allows users to feel the pulse of things

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Things around us are becoming smarter every day and many tasks we use to perform manually are becoming automated. As our dependency on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology grows, we need to make sure such devices work reliably, securely and don’t fail with the tasks we entrust to them. Implementation of such control...

Canonical
12 June 2015

Canonical
11 June 2015

Mark Shuttleworth’s ODS Vancouver Keynote

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This year’s OpenStack Summit was the most successful yet; playing host to a record number of exhibitors who excited and inspired over 5,000 visiting delegates. During the course of the week, attendees were treated to a host of keynotes, breakout session and track day presentations; aimed to bring the latest news, views,...

Canonical
11 June 2015

Dustin Kirkland
11 June 2015

How many containers can you run on your machine?

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652 Linux containers running on a Laptop? Are you kidding me???A couple of weeks ago, at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canonical released the results of some scalability testing of Linux containers (LXC) managed by LXD.Ryan Harper and James Page presented their results — some 536 Linux containers on a very modest...

Dustin Kirkland
11 June 2015

Canonical
11 June 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: May 2015 Newsletter

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Summer has arrived (at least in some parts of the world!) and we’ve been busy telling the world about the opportunities created by Ubuntu Advantage Storage and challenging KVM with our LXD ‘lightervisor’. We are proud to maintain our status as the operating system of choice for most production OpenStack cloud...

Canonical
11 June 2015

Clearwater and Juju

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Like our sister project, Calico, we on the Project Clearwater team have been using Juju for some of our orchestration needs. In this blog post, I’m going to talk about what Juju is, why it’s a good fit for IMS orchestration, and what we’ve done recently on our Juju charms. Both the Calico blog linked

Canonical
11 June 2015

Matt Bruzek
10 June 2015

Deploy a Kubernetes development cluster with Juju!

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Our team has been working to make Kubernetes easy to deploy in a public cloud. In March we created some Juju charms that have the ability to deploy specific releases of Kubernetes on a public cloud. In April we worked to get the charm and bundle code in the Kubernetes project itself. Making it even easier for people to...

Matt Bruzek
10 June 2015

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