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Alejandra Obregon
25 January 2016

Designing cloud tools in Cape Town

Ubuntu Notes

Our cloud design team has just returned from a trip to Cape Town for our mid-cycle sprint. We have the luxury of being collocated in London and working closely throughout the whole year, but these sprints give us an invaluable opportunity to collaborate with other stakeholders and engineers working around the world. We get together ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
25 January 2016

Released: Juju GUI 2.0

Cloud and server Article

We are really happy to announce availability of the new and shiny beta version of Juju GUI 2.0 with completely redesigned and rewritten user interface and improved user experience. The new GUI introduces: redesigned canvas, relation management and charm handling with the new inspector improved integration with the charm store, unifying th ...


Canonical
22 January 2016

Hardware Setup: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

Ubuntu Article

This is part 2 of my new “Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju” series, and it follows up on my last week’s post Introduction: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju. In this post I’m going to explain the steps I used to configure the actual hardware – physical networking and wiring needed before ...


Canonical
21 January 2016

Introduction: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

Cloud and server Article

In the past months our Juju Core Sapphire team has been working on the design, planning, and implementation of a set of extended networking features for Juju 1.25 and the upcoming (January 2016) 1.26 releases. The main focus is enabling users of Juju to have a finer-grained control over how their services are deployed on ...


Maarten Ectors
20 January 2016

NFV does not equal Hypervisor

Cloud and server Article

Summary: This blog post will explain why network equipment providers are incorrectly investing in hypervisors to provide network function virtualisation and why Intel bought Altera. The answer is networking. Until recently switches, routers, DSLAMs, mobile base stations, etc. were all using special purpose hardware components called ASICs ...


Christian Reis
20 January 2016

MAAS 1.9: Taking bare-metal beyond “minimal provisioning”

Cloud and server Article

Complex node configuration now fully supported, including NIC bonding, tagged VLANs, bcache, LVM, software RAID devices and more One of the (only somewhat unsung) heroes in the MAAS user community is Ante Karamatić. Ante is the lead of a consulting team which does complex deployments for telecom cloud providers, and he’s also known for be ...


Dustin Kirkland
20 January 2016

Data Driven Analysis: /tmp on tmpfs

Cloud and server Article

tl;drPut /tmp on tmpfs and you’ll improve your Linux system’s I/O, reduce your carbon foot print and electricity usage, stretch the battery life of your laptop, extend the longevity of your SSDs, and provide stronger security.In fact, we should do that by default on Ubuntu servers and cloud images.Having tested 502 physical and virtual se ...


Rae Shambrook
18 January 2016

Ubuntu Clock Update Reflects Convergence Design Thinking

Ubuntu Design

In the coming months, users will start noticing things looking more and more different on Ubuntu. As we gradually roll out our new and improved Suru visual language, you’ll see apps and various other bits of the platform take on a lighter, more clean and cohesive look. Why refresh apps at all? As Ubuntu brings ...


Marcin Kierdelewicz
15 January 2016

Ubuntu is coming to a city near you

Cloud and server Article

Happy New Year! I’ve been busy planning our first ever Ubuntu Day. Ubuntu Day is a local event organised with our partners to support awareness and adoption of Ubuntu technologies in local markets. It’s an opportunity for people to learn about Ubuntu Cloud products directly from the experts, and to obtain some technical hands on ...


Udi Nachmany
14 January 2016

5 reasons you should only use certified images on the public cloud

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu has a long history in the cloud. Not only is it the world’s number one platform for deployments of OpenStack (as we’ve covered here), it also runs more public cloud workloads than all other platforms combined. Fast, secure, and proven in the most demanding production environments, it is extremely popular with the likes of ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
14 January 2016

Big Data Explained, Analysed, Solved

Cloud and server White paper

This eBook gives an overview of what big data is and its growing importance. Download this eBook to answer the following questions: What is Big Data and what different types of Big Data are there? What is the increasing importance of Big Data? What applications / tools managed services / clouds should I use to ...