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Blog posts tagged
"cloud"


anastasiavalti
17 August 2020

Canonical demoes its Kubernetes solutions live at KubeCon EU 2020!

Kubernetes Article

The wait is over – KubeCon & ClouNativeCon Virtual EU 2020 is finally here and we’re so thrilled to open our booth’s proverbial doors to all you fellow Kubernetes folks! We’ve already mentioned a couple of things about what you can expect to find at the Canonical and Ubuntu booth at KubeCon this year, but ...


cmoullec
17 July 2020

Best practices for an effective remote team in the world of cloud delivery

Cloud and server Article

Just like countless other business functions, cloud delivery has now shifted entirely to remote working for now and perhaps longer term. Canonical has been a remote-first company for some time, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to share some of the best practices we’ve learned along the way. Communication Effective communication be ...


anastasiavalti
13 July 2020

Kubernetes from cloud to edge: A US virtual event

Kubernetes Article

Register for the event Who is this event for? After the huge success of its latest virtual event on Kubernetes for the EMEA region, Canonical brings its expertise to the US with another educational discussion. On July 31st, Canonical’s panel of experts come together to share their insights from years of working with developers and ...


Joshua Powers
9 July 2020

Ubuntu Support of AWS Graviton2 Instances

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog Ubuntu is the industry-leading operating system for use in the cloud. Every day millions of Ubuntu instances are launched in private and public clouds around the world. Canonical takes pride in offering support for the latest cloud features and functionality. As of today, all Ubuntu ...


Tytus Kurek
1 June 2020

Open source software for open infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

Implementing infrastructure using open-source software significantly reduces the total cost of ownership (TOC) of your infrastructure. Over the last few years, we’ve seen more and more companies moving to open source. These include Netflix, Uber, Visa, eBay, Wikipedia and AT&T. And this trend will only continue to grow. The migration is d ...


Tytus Kurek
27 May 2020

Hybrid cloud vs multi-cloud: what is the difference?

Cloud and server Article

Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud are two exclusive terms that are often confused. While the hybrid cloud represents a model for extending private cloud infrastructure with one of the existing public clouds, a multi-cloud refers to an environment where multiple clouds are used at the same time, regardless of their type. Thus, while the hybrid ...


Francis Ginther
16 April 2020

Introducing the Ubuntu AWS Rolling Kernel

Cloud and server Article

The linux-aws 4.15 based kernel, which is the default kernel in the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS AMIs, is moving to a rolling kernel model. Why is this changing? The Ubuntu rolling kernel model provides the latest upstream bug fixes and performance improvements around task scheduling, I/O scheduling, networking, hypervisor guests and containers to ou ...


Tytus Kurek
1 April 2020

OpenStack distros: How to choose the right one?

OpenStack Article

Choosing the right OpenStack distribution is essential to the success of an OpenStack project at every organisation. When selecting one, organisations should always follow certain criteria. Is it possible to operate the considered OpenStack distros economically? How easy is it to deploy them? Can the organisation upgrade its production Op ...


Alex Cattle
6 March 2020

Hosted private cloud infrastructure: a cost analysis

Cloud and server Article

Private cloud infrastructure remains an essential part of every enterprise nowadays. However, due to the increasing number of workloads and data, the overhead of managing bare metal servers, virtual machines and containers can mount up. Although tools like MAAS, OpenStack and Kubernetes help to address this problem, upskilling operations ...


Tytus Kurek
18 February 2020

OpenStack Charms 20.02 – CephFS backend for Manila and more

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.02. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. CephFS backend for Manila The OpenStack Charms 20.02 release introduces support for Ceph File System (CephFS) to be used as stora ...


Robin Winslow
19 November 2019

Avoiding dropped connections in nginx containers with “STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT”

Cloud and server Article

(Also published on my blog at robinwinslow.uk) Update: The default used in the official nginx docker image was changed from SIGTERM to SIGQUIT in November 2020, so this should no longer be an issue for Docker or Kubernetes users. nginx is a very popular web server. It may have just become the most popular web ...


Canonical
11 November 2019

Canonical at TechWeek Frankfurt

Cloud and server Article

Date: Nov 13-14Location: Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GermanyBooth: 957 The TechWeek Frankfurt trade show will explore solutions to technology challenges organisations face across cloud computing and security, DevOps practices, Big Data management and more. With these major infrastructure themes in mind, the Ubuntu and Canonical team is ho ...