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Jorge O. Castro
17 December 2014

Using Flannel and etcd for LXC container networking

Cloud and server Videos

In this demo Charles Butler shows you how to use Flannel and etcd to network LXC containers. This allows you to Juju deploy to multiple hosts instead of one machine. ...


Maarten Ectors
16 December 2014

Truphone uses Juju to demo world’s first telecom solution in minutes

Cloud and server Article

World’s first demo of live, open source telecom service runs in the cloud … and all in software Truphone‘s head of R&D together with TeleStax, Metaswitch and Canonical – have demonstrated the world’s first provisioning and operation of a cloud-based IMS core and application server for a live voting service using the Truphone network. Four ...


Canonical
16 December 2014

Snappy Ubuntu Core comes to Google Compute Engine

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is delighted to announce the availability of snappy Ubuntu Core on Google Compute Engine, making the fastest Ubuntu now instantly accessible on the fastest cloud in the industry. Ubuntu Core is the new “snappy” rendition of the world’s favourite cloud OS, with a very lean and secure base image that features transactional updates ...


Scott Moser
11 December 2014

Snappy Ubuntu Core and cloud-init

Internet of Things Article

Snappy Ubuntu Core was announced this week.  In yesterday’s blog post (Snappy Ubuntu Core and uvtool) I showed how you can use uvtool to create and manage snappy instances.Now that we’ve got that covered, let’s look deeper into a very cool feature – the ability to customize the instance and automate its startup and configuration.  For exa ...


Scott Moser
10 December 2014

Snappy Ubuntu Core and uvtool

Internet of Things Article

Earlier this week, Ubuntu announced the Snappy Ubuntu Core . As part of the announcement, a set of qemu based instructions were included for checking out a snappy image on your local system.  In addition to that method, we’ve been working on updates to bring support for the transactional images to uvtool. Have you used uvtool before?  I l ...


Canonical
9 December 2014

A new, transactionally updated “snappy” Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

Today we’re announcing “snappy” Ubuntu Core, a new rendition of Ubuntu for the cloud with transactional updates. Ubuntu Core is a minimal server image with the same libraries as today’s Ubuntu, but applications are provided through a simpler mechanism. The snappy approach is faster, more reliable, and lets us provide stronger security gua ...


mark
9 December 2014

Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates!

Internet of Things Article

Ubuntu Core brings the bulletproof update mechanism and application isolation security from the Ubuntu phone to the cloud. It creates the smallest, most secure rendition of Ubuntu ever! And it’s really amazing as a platform for container-based deployment with tools like Docker. If you want the very latest goodness together with the tradit ...


Jorge O. Castro
8 December 2014

Charm Workshop: Writing Charms for Restrictive Networks

Cloud and server Videos

In an ideal world your systems can reach any internet resource for whatever they need for deployment. However the real world is different, and many production networks have proxies or other restricted network policies that make writing charms challenging. In this charm school Matt Bruzek highlights some of the methods you can use to make ...


Canonical
4 December 2014

Canonical and Data Foundry to provide hosted private cloud

Cloud and server News

Canonical announces a partnership with Data Foundry, a leading provider of global data centre, colocation and managed services, to offer a fully managed private cloud service powered by OpenStack. The service will be hosted in Data Foundry’s premium data centres and global colocation facilities and operated by its experienced team. The of ...


Canonical
25 November 2014

Got 64-bit ARM Hardware?

Cloud and server Article

ARMv8 X-Gene X-C1 Development Systems, powered by Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, now available through Applied Micro’s developer enablement program. One of the hottest topics to emerge in the scale-out server space is the ARM-based server. These highly integrated systems, powered by CPUs which are in effect complete Systems-on-a-Chip, bring the promis ...


Canonical
21 November 2014

Turbo Charge Your PHP Application with TurboLAMP.

Cloud and server Article

Are you working on Cloud, Mobile and Big Data solutions that rely on PHP? Ubuntu on POWER can help turbo charge your LAMP stack. Working closely with IBM and our partners, we have what we believe is a compelling solution called TurboLAMP. You can have the opportunity to “test drive” the TurboLAMP stack with your ...