Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"

350 posts


Tom Callway
13 May 2015

IoT World: Snappy for Whitebox Switches

Article Cloud and server

Canonical announces snappy switches with Ubuntu Core and network function apps Penguin Computing the first to ship network switches with snappy Ubuntu Core Canonical today announces the availability of ‘snappy’ Ubuntu Core on whitebox and OCP switches. Ubuntu Core is a high security platform with transactional updates,...

Tom Callway
13 May 2015


Canonical
12 May 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: April 2015 Newsletter

Article Cloud and server

This April saw our new release, Ubuntu 15.04! We also have some great webinars, training courses and product announcements to tell you about and some exciting partner ecosystem news for you. Meanwhile, we’re getting ready for OpenStack Summit in Vancouver – we hope to see you all there! So dive in and enjoy! Webinar: Designing

Canonical
12 May 2015


John Zannos
6 May 2015

Market Leaders EMC and Canonical Extend OpenStack Partnership

Article Cloud and server

Today’s cloud workloads are driving storage requirements at an exponential rate, making storage an important part of any OpenStack deployment. Clients are looking for a scalable cloud infrastructure that is able to take advantage of the features of advanced enterprise storage — but want to avoid the current complexity...

John Zannos
6 May 2015


Canonical
6 May 2015

Introduction to nova-compute-lxd

Article Cloud and server

LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the container will look and feel like a regular VM – but will act like a container. LXD uses the same container technology found in the Linux kernel (cgroups, namespaces,...

Canonical
6 May 2015


James Page
30 April 2015

Neutron, 0mq and Git deployment – Ubuntu OpenStack 15.04 Charm Release

Article Cloud and server

Alongside the Ubuntu 15.04 release on the 23rd April, the Ubuntu OpenStack Engineering team delivered the latest release of the OpenStack charms for deploying and managing OpenStack on Ubuntu using Juju. Here are some selected highlights from this most recent charm release. OpenStack Kilo support As always, we’ve...

James Page
30 April 2015


Mark Baker
22 April 2015

Here comes Kilo and 15.04! Containers will never be the same again!

Article Cloud and server

Today Ubuntu 15.04, codenamed Vivid Vervet, is released with a host of new features for clouds and servers. 15.04 comes a full year since the last Long Term Support (LTS) release and a year before the next LTS so represents a milestone in which we bring in and start to settle down features we want

Mark Baker
22 April 2015


Canonical
22 April 2015

Canonical and QCT partnership extends to next-generation managed cloud

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Bootstack now available on QCT Hardware Bundled proposition reduces cloud deployment from months to days Canonical and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) have extended their collaboration by bundling the most innovative managed cloud services, based on Ubuntu reference architecture on QCT hardware. Canonical’s reference...

Canonical
22 April 2015


Jacek Nykis
22 April 2015

Rewriting WordPress’ juju charms for security and HA on OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Canonical’s IS department is responsible for running most of the company’s external and internal services. This includes services like Landscape and Launchpad as well as 3rd party software including internal and external wikis, WordPress blogs and Django sites. All new services are deployed with Juju and Mojo onto our...

Jacek Nykis
22 April 2015


Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: What’s new for cloud users?

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu 15.04: OpenStack ready to roll with Kilo and first outing of Snappy Core Adds LXD, a new hypervisor with incredible density and speed First release of Snappy Ubuntu Core for cloud container hosts and smart devices OpenStack “Kilo” – Ubuntu leads with choice of SDNs, easy install and management Updated developer...

Canonical
21 April 2015


Tom Callway
16 April 2015

Ubuntu OpenStack Summit Vancouver presentations

Article Cloud and server

  Please join us at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit. We’ll be giving the following presentations: Tuesday, May 19 Evil Superuser’s HOWTO: Launching instances to do your bidding 11:15am You click ‘run’ on the OpenStack dashboard, or launch a new instance via the api. Some provisioning magic happens and soon you’ve got a...

Tom Callway
16 April 2015


Canonical
15 April 2015

PLUMgrid Joins Canonical Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab

Article Cloud and server

Partnership will deliver validated interoperability with simpler and automated deployment for OpenStack clouds SUNNYVALE, Calif. and LONDON, April 15, 2015 — PLUMgrid, a leading innovator of virtual network infrastructure for OpenStack® clouds, has become an Ubuntu Cloud partner and a part of the Canonical OpenStack...

Canonical
15 April 2015


Canonical
14 April 2015

Zabbix charms now available

Article Cloud and server

Zabbix is the latest graduate of the Charm Partner Programme, and we are excited to welcome their charms into the Juju Charms collection. Zabbix is is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices, services and other...

Canonical
14 April 2015


Canonical
14 April 2015

Chef and Canonical; an automation story (with a bare metal soundtrack)

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Every business needs to spend fewer calories on IT management and are looking to automation and cloud-ready platforms to do so. Combining Chef’s scale and flexibility with Ubuntu’s tremendous Linux platform empowers users to easily manage everything from bare metal servers to large-scale clouds. Barry Crist, CEO, Chef...

Canonical
14 April 2015


Andreas Hasenack
10 April 2015

MAAS 1.9 network layouts for the Landscape Autopilot

Article Cloud and server

Thanks for your interest in Ubuntu OpenStack. Canonical has sunsetted OpenStack Autopilot and replaced it with conjure-up. We welcome you to visit our OpenStack product page to find an Ubuntu OpenStack solution that meets your needs.   The Ubuntu OpenStack Autopilot deploys an OpenStack cloud using Juju, MAAS and...

Andreas Hasenack
10 April 2015