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Canonical
24 June 2015

Introducing the Fan – simpler container networking

Cloud and server Article

Canonical just announced a new, free, and very cool way to provide thousands of IP addresses to each of your VMs on AWS. Check out the fan networking on Ubuntu wiki page to get started, or read Dustin’s excellent fan walkthrough. Carry on here for a simple description of this happy little dose of awesome. ...


Canonical
24 June 2015

Meizu Launches the MX4 Ubuntu Edition in Europe

Phone and tablet Article

Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition phones will be available for purchase on 25th of June Phones will be available in Europe and by invite only accessed through an interactive origami wall on Meizu’s online site The MX4 Ubuntu Edition was also launched on 17th of May to developers in China Smartphone manufacturer Meizu, in partnership with ...


Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

Container-to-Container Networking: The Bits have Hit the Fan!

Cloud and server Article

A thing of beautyIf you read my last post, perhaps you followed the embedded instructions and ran hundreds of LXD system containers on your own Ubuntu machine.Or perhaps you’re already a Docker enthusiast and your super savvy microservice architecture orchestrates dozens of applications among a pile of process containers.Either way, the m ...


Anthony Dillon
22 June 2015

Introducing Vanilla

Ubuntu Article

Why we needed a new framework Some time ago the web team at Canonical developed a CSS framework we called ‘Guidelines’. Guidelines helped us to maintain our online visual language across all our sites and comprised of a number of base and component Sass files which were combined and served as a monolithic CSS file ...


Canonical
22 June 2015

Get Yourself a BootStack

Cloud and server Article

Canonical offers BootStack as a service to build and operate OpenStack clouds for its customers, with the option to transfer administration of a cloud to the customer, if and when the customer so desires. This means you can get yourself an OpenStack cloud running on your hardware, even on your premises, while we build and ...


Dustin Kirkland
22 June 2015

The Fan overlay network for container addresses, from Canonical

Cloud and server Article

Today, Canonical introduces the Fan overlay network system in Ubuntu in test images for Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, delivering the fastest and most scalable address expansion mechanism in the container world. The Fan enables cloud users to grow the number of Docker and LXD containers they can address in a single cloud e ...


Ellen Arnold
19 June 2015

Certivox joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to announce that Certivox has joined the Charm Partner Programme.  Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling on virtually any public or private cloud, as well as bare me ...


Francesco Banconi
19 June 2015

Juju Quickstart 2.2.0

Cloud and server Article

We are happy to announce the 2.2.0 release of Juju Quickstart! Juju Quickstart helps both new and experienced users to quickly start Juju and the Juju GUI, whether they’ve never installed Juju or they have an existing Juju environment running. From the last update on this blog, we introduced several new features like support for ...


Canonical
18 June 2015

Certified Ubuntu images now optimized for Joyent Triton containers

Cloud and server Article

Joyent Expands Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure Beyond Docker, Adds Support for Container-Native Linux on Bare Metal Partners with Canonical to provide certified and supported Ubuntu images, optimized to run natively on bare metal on Triton Infrastructure Containers Joyent Inc., the container-native infrastructure company, today an ...


Canonical
18 June 2015

World’s first 25/100 gigabit open ethernet-based switch launches

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is delighted to support the launch of the world’s first 25/100 Gigabit open Ethernet-based switch, being introduced to the market today by Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX). The new switch runs on ‘Snappy’ Ubuntu Core and will offer a new level of flexibility for network environments.   Mellanox is the leading supplier ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
17 June 2015

12 Questions about Juju

Cloud and server Article

If you want to get the basics about Juju, here is a good place to start! 1) What is Juju? Juju is a state of the art, open source service modelling tool. It forms part of Ubuntu’s cloud portfolio, together with Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu OpenStack, MAAS for bare-metal provisioning, and Landscape for systems management and monitoring. ...