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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. ...


Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Deploying OpenStack from source to scalable multi-node environments

Cloud and server Article

The Juju OpenStack charms now have support for deploying OpenStack from source! This means that you can point the charms at the OpenStack git repositories/branches of your choice, whether they’re the well known upstream repos or your own modified repos, and deploy to your choice of substrate via Juju (to metal via MAAS, private/public clo ...


Pierre Bertet
16 June 2015

The Grid System in detail

Ubuntu User Experience

Following the article “To converge onto mobile, tablet, and desktop, think Grid Units”, here is a technical description of the way the Grid System behave. We will go through the following concepts: a Grid Unit, a Layout, a Panel, and a Multi-Column Layout. Grid Unit A Grid Unit (GU) is a virtual subdivision of screen ...


Arturo Suarez
16 June 2015

Starting up in the new OpenStack

Ubuntu Article

I had the pleasure to deliver a session at the recent OpenStack day in Budapest, one of the many events organized by different community members globally, followed by a panel with several OpenStack notables. There was one question I jumped into, and that triggered me writing this post: Are the recent acquisition of OpenStack startups ...