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6 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary: September 6, 2017

Cloud and server Article

Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~3 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~4 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~5 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~6 weeks away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The Artful kern ...


Canonical
5 September 2017

MAAS Development Update – Aug 21st – Sept 1st

Cloud and server Article

Hello MAASters! This is the development summary for the past couple of weeks:MAAS 2.3 (current development release)Hardware Testing Phase 2Added parameters form for script parameters validation.Accept and validate results from nodes.Added hardware testing 7zip CPU benchmarking builtin script.WIP – ability to send parameters to test script ...


David Britton
5 September 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 05 Sep 2017

Cloud and server Article

Hello Ubuntu Server! The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team ...


Stéphane Graber
4 September 2017

LXD Weekly Status #13: Snap data migration, Open Source Summit & more

Cloud and server Article

Weekly status for the week of the 28th to the 3rd of September 2017. Introduction The main focus for this past week has been the preparation for LXC 2.1. We’ve now issued a call for testing and expect it to release tomorrow (Tuesday). On the LXD side of things, we’ve been working through bug reports quite a ...


Canonical
4 September 2017

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 1

Internet of Things Article

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services Ever since snaps were introduced, a crucial part of their feature set has been the ability to release a snap on a particular “channel” indicating how stable or production-ready it is. The well-known channel names stable, candidate, beta and edge indicate a snap’s stabil ...


Alan Pope
1 September 2017

Ubuntu Rally in NYC

Internet of Things Article

The Ubuntu Rally, taking place in New York City September 25th-29th, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon attended by major software vendors, Ubuntu developers working at every level of the stack, and community contributors. There are a limited number of non-sponsored slots remaining. If you’re local to New York or can arrang ...


Mark Baker
1 September 2017

OpenStack Pike and all new updates to the Cloud Archive

Canonical announcements Article

On Wednesday 30th August, the upstream OpenStack community officially announced the release of OpenStack Pike. Pike represents the 2nd release of OpenStack this year after Ocata was released back in February and it shows that the innovation and progress in OpenStack shows no signs of slowing just yet. With recent big announcements from Go ...


Joshua Powers
31 August 2017

cloud-init Summit in Seattle, Washington

Cloud and server Article

Introduction Last week the cloud-init development team from Canonical ran a two-day summit in Seattle, Washington. The purpose of the summit was to meet with contributors to cloud-init from cloud providers and OS vendors to demo recent developments in cloud-init, resolve outstanding issues, and collect feedback on development and test pro ...


tribaal
31 August 2017

Running an Ubuntu mirror with Juju!

Cloud and server Article

This originally appeared on Chris Glass’ blog Running a mirror for your favorite distribution is much easier than it sounds when leveraging the right tools (and the work of others, including yours truly). You might be interested to see what we (the Public Cloud team and Web Operations team at Canonical) developed over the years ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
31 August 2017

Why containers and automation are essential in a world being eaten by software

Cloud and server Webinar

Sign up for our new webinar on containers and automation, to understand the challenges that increasingly complex software brings and how to achieve economically sustainable operations.   ...



31 August 2017

OpenStack Weekly Update

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared in James Page’s blog Welcome to the sixth Ubuntu OpenStack development summary! Firstly apologies for the lack of update two weeks ago; your author’s attempt to schedule publication whilst he was on holiday failed miserably – so this edition is a bit of a wrap up of the last 3-4 weeks ...