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title: 'Canonical Cloud Chatter: August 2015'
description: September is fast approaching giving us a ‘back-to-school’ feeling. No
  time to spare, we’ve been focused on securing new partners for Juju, planning the
  upcoming Juju Charmer Summit as well as our popular Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals
  Training course. We will be attending many events around the globe, demoing our
  Cloud solutions – come ha […]
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1 September 2015

# Canonical Cloud Chatter: August 2015

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September is fast approaching giving us a ‘back-to-school’ feeling. No time to spare, we’ve been focused on securing new partners for Juju, planning the upcoming Juju Charmer Summit as well as our popular Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals Training course. We will be attending many events around the globe, demoing our Cloud solutions – come have a look if you’re around! Read all about what’s new and exciting on the cloud front.

**Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals Training**

New training courses have been announced! The Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals Training course is an intensive 3-day, hands-on classroom-based course of lectures and lab work, taking place in various cities around the world.  The course has been designed by the experts in our Cloud Engineering team to be the best introduction for setting up and running Ubuntu OpenStack clouds. The next available training courses will be in Amsterdam and Washington, D.C.! [Book your seat today](http://ubunt.eu/n4a3ZX)!

Still undecided? [Here are five reasons to learn OpenStack](http://ubunt.eu/1Q1K1i).

**Juju Charmer Summit**

17 – 18 September, Washington, DC

This two day summit is an opportunity for devops to learn how to distribute their software through the Juju Charm Store. Over two dozen charm experts from Canonical and the Juju Community will be on hand to deliver training, discuss best practices, and give attendees hands-on peer instruction on deploying to multiple public clouds, bare metal and OpenStack.

[Register to attend here!](http://ubunt.eu/EwuCcf)

**Juju Updates: Deploying a Juju Cluster on Brightbox Cloud**

Juju takes configuration scripts written in other tools and wraps them into a “[charm](https://jujucharms.com/store) which can be deployed either with the Juju CLI tool or its GUI interface.

It’s really easy to run up a cluster on Juju to play with on Brightbox Cloud. Neil Wilson, consultant at Brightbox shows you how. [Check it out](http://ubunt.eu/wJB0Ws).

**Video: Hot New Guests in Ubuntu OpenStack**

Real clouds run every type of guest! From hosting containers to complex Windows and Linux integration in an OpenStack environment, this talk will bring together the most important worlds of enterprise IT.

[Watch the video here](http://ubunt.eu/P9bYTB)

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**Partner ecosystem highlights**
The Charm Partner Programme welcomed 4 new partners this month:  [AppFormix](http://ubunt.eu/2VgdWo), a software solution that allows users to monitor and control in real time how applications consume available infrastructure resources across VMs and containers; [Vedams](http://ubunt.eu/SklZ4i), the lead developer of Tulsi, an open source tool used to monitor the health of a Swift cluster; [France Labs](http://ubunt.eu/Smbw8o), creators of Datafari, an open source enterprise search solution; and [7isolutions](http://ubunt.eu/32X65o), who package SiouxApps, which are enhanced, open source applications such as Redmine, DokuWiki, WordPress, Subversion and others

**Upcoming Events**

**OpenStack Benelux Conference**

On September 17th our Ubuntu Cloud Team will be at OpenStack Benelux Conference. We will be participating in speaking sessions and running demos on making OpenStack easy to install.

[Register for OpenStack Benelux here](http://ubunt.eu/j0sGlP)

**Strata Hadoop World**

If you’re attending Strata & Hadoop World, don’t forget to stop by **Booth #358** to learn about our Big Data solutions. Come find out how to become a ‘fast fish’ at Canonical’s Strategic Program Manager Samuel Cozannet’s session.  If you’re only registering now, get 20% off with our promo code!

[Get more info & find out how to redeem our 20% promo code](http://ubunt.eu/P7a1LV)

**OpenStack Summit Tokyo**

In October we will be travelling to Tokyo (it’s the leaf changing season!) to participate in the OpenStack Summit. We will be  at booth **#S3,**running demos of our cloud tools and  have secured a dedicated track day on Tuesday 29th October. Come see how [Juju](http://ubunt.eu/TJYO9C) makes cloud modeling simple and quick.

[Learn more & register to attend](http://ubunt.eu/PzZZt9)

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