Blog posts written by Guest

Guest
27 October 2016

Snapping Cuberite

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by James Tait, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com I’m a father of two pre-teens, and like many kids their age (and many adults, for that matter) they got caught up in the craze that is Minecraft. In our house ...

Guest
5 October 2016

The new XPS 13 Developer Edition lands in Europe and United States

Desktop Article

This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Today the 6th generation XPS 13 developer edition makes its debut in both the US and Europe (Canada to follow). This Kaby Lake-based system comes with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS preloaded and features the ...

Guest
29 September 2016

Meet ORWL. The first open source, physically secure computer

Desktop Article

This is a guest post by Daniel Nelson from Design Shift, makers of ORWL. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com If someone has physical access to your computer with secure documents present, it’s game over! ORWL is designed to solve this as the first open source physically secure computer ...

Guest
29 September 2016

The making of the Nextcloud Box

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Jos Poortvliet, Marketing and Communications Manager from Nexcloud. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com The story of the Nextcloud box – a feature in our upcoming webinar – learn more here. In 2010, Frank Karlitschek founded the ownCloud project to provide an al ...

Guest
13 September 2016

Deploying a Spark job using Juju

Cloud and server Article

Juju makes it easy to setup and monitor a Spark cluster with a few commands. In this guide we will setup a new cluster and deploy a Spark job using this tool. According to the official definition, Juju is a service modelling tool that allows people to model, configure and deploy applications in the cloud. ...

Guest
4 September 2016

Pentaho users explore the future of DevOps and Big Data with Juju

Cloud and server Article

This quarter’s PLUG (Pentaho London User Group) headed to Canonical’s head office which is nicely located just behind the Tate Modern in London. I must admit I don’t know much about what they do, but a bit of research later and I quickly saw they’re at the heart of open source, and they have a ...

Guest
31 May 2016

Building a nervous system for OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

Big Software is a new class of software composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot design, deploy or operate them. OpenStack, Hadoop and container-based architectures are all byproducts of Big Software. The only way to address the complexity is with automatic, AI-powered analytics. Summary Canonical and Skymind a ...

Guest
3 March 2016

Pentaho Data Integration quickly with Juju

Cloud and server Article

Tom Barber at Meteorite explains how beneficial Juju Charms has been when migrating customer services from old, tricky servers. I promised a demo of Juju GUI in my earlier blog and we’ve worked hard on a Pentaho Data Integration charm, so I figured we’d combine the two. For those of you who don’t know, Juju ...

Guest
1 March 2016

Juju 2.0 and LXD opens a whole new dimension to developing BI apps

Cloud and server Article

I’ve been itching to write this post since I got back from Config Mgmt Camp in Gent a few weeks ago. The developers over at Canonical are gearing up to launch Juju 2.0. Maybe not yet a household name in the devops land but it is certainly making waves and with a company like Canonical ...

Guest
5 February 2016

Juju Charmers Summit: The Real Day

Cloud and server Article

Okay then, day 3. My liver is still pretty much functioning although hopefully I can “juju deploy new-liver” on my trip back to the UK. So what happened on day 3? Of course for those not interested in Juju there was no day 3, but for those who stuck around, hopefully they had a very ...

Guest
5 February 2016

Juju Charmers Summit: Day 2

Cloud and server Article

I’ll be honest with you here, I love open source software evangelism, I will talk about it for days given an audience. You are my audience, so thank you very much…. Okay, so I won’t lie last night involved some consumption of alcohol. Luckily everyone rocked up pretty much on time, and then it rained ...

Guest
4 February 2016

From the trenches: Juju ‘Management’ Camp

Cloud and server Article

Okay it’s a lie, it was really Config Management Camp, but I was really only there for one purpose. Over the years as a small tech company we have tried a number of automation systems for our server and the honest truth, is that unless you have a dedicated sys admin and people running your ...