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371 posts from 2015
Getting started with LXD – the container lightervisor
By Stéphane Graber, 28 April 2015
Introduction For the past 6 months, Serge Hallyn, Tycho Andersen, Chuck Short, Ryan Harper and myself have been very busy working on a new container project...
DataArt’s DeviceHive platform arrives on Azure Marketplace
By Canonical, 24 April 2015
The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) enables businesses to predict when industrial equipment is going to fail, so that action can be taken beforehand. A...
Package management at scale with Landscape
By Free Ekanayaka, 22 April 2015
This post describes the design and implementation of a micro-service written in Go that has made it possible to massively scale Landscape’s package management...
Here comes Kilo and 15.04! Containers will never be the same again!
By Mark Baker, 22 April 2015
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...
10Duke joins the Charm Partner Programme
By Canonical, 22 April 2015
Canonical is excited to announce that 10Duke, the leading European backend as a service (BaaS) provider, is the latest partner to join the Canonical Charm...
Canonical and QCT partnership extends to next-generation managed cloud
By Canonical, 22 April 2015
Bootstack now available on QCT Hardware Bundled proposition reduces cloud deployment from months to days Canonical and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) have...
Rewriting WordPress’ juju charms for security and HA on OpenStack
By Jacek Nykis, 22 April 2015
Canonical’s IS department is responsible for running most of the company’s external and internal services. This includes services like Landscape and Launchpad...
Giving developers production access without revealing secrets
By Tom Haddon, 21 April 2015
It’s a classic trade off in the devops world: On the one hand you want to give developers access to production systems so that they can see how their services...
Ubuntu 15.04: Desktop, Phone and IoT; towards a converged future
By Canonical, 21 April 2015
Ubuntu 15.04 desktop extends leadership of developer experience Snappy Ubuntu Core on general availability for the first time New developer tools allow...
Ubuntu 15.04: What’s new for cloud users?
By Canonical, 21 April 2015
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...
Why an AppScale / Canonical Partnership is Important
By Canonical, 20 April 2015
It’s exciting to be partnering with Canonical / Ubuntu again as a member of their Charm Partner Program. This partnership is more than a simple “logo...
Tendering with Ubuntu
By Canonical, 17 April 2015
Public and private entities across the globe are increasingly turning towards Ubuntu for high performing robust solutions and saving millions in the process!...