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Samuel Cozannet
6 May 2015

Universal Modeling Language for Service-Oriented Architectures: Part 1

Cloud and server Article

Over the last 20 years, applications have moved from a monolithic mainframe perspective to a scale out vision. However, during this time the representation of applications hasn’t changed that much. This has led to major inefficiencies in their design. In the first part of this two part blog, I will explain why Canonical believes that ...


Canonical
6 May 2015

Introduction to nova-compute-lxd

Cloud and server Article

LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the container will look and feel like a regular VM – but will act like a container. LXD uses the same container technology found in the Linux kernel (cgroups, namespaces, LSM, etc). The ...


Canonical
6 May 2015

Live Migration in LXD

Cloud and server Article

There has been a lot of interest on the various mailing lists as well as internally at Canonical about the state of migration in LXD, so I thought I’d write a bit about the current state of affairs. Migration in LXD today passes the “Doom demo” test, i.e. it works well enough to reproduce the ...


Canonical
5 May 2015

Ubuntu now available for pre-order on AMD-based laptops at Ebuyer.com

Desktop News

A number of new HP solutions preloaded with Ubuntu and powered by AMD technology are available on pre-order from Ebuyer.com Increases Ubuntu’s e-tail presence within the UK 05 May 2015, London: Electronic Commerce Retailer Ebuyer has launched a series of AMD-based HP laptops preloaded with Ubuntu. These devices are perfect for business an ...


Canonical
5 May 2015

Using Snappy OVA Images when you don’t have a Cloud Fabric

Cloud and server Article

The Snappy OVA images are nothing more than the Ubuntu Snappy Cloud images that have been wrapped up in an OVA container. Snappy Cloud Images expect to be running within a Cloud environment where a meta-data source is provided. But since OVA is a virtualization appliance format, users have expressed some confusion as how they ...


Amrisha Prashar
1 May 2015

Ubuntu Online Summit

Cloud and server Article

Next week, from the 5th to 7th of May, another edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking off. Three days of sessions for developers, designers, advocates, users and all members of our diverse community. Along the developer-oriented discussions you’ll find presentations, workshops, lightning talks and much more. It’s a great opportunit ...


James Page
30 April 2015

Neutron, 0mq and Git deployment – Ubuntu OpenStack 15.04 Charm Release

Cloud and server Article

Alongside the Ubuntu 15.04 release on the 23rd April, the Ubuntu OpenStack Engineering team delivered the latest release of the OpenStack charms for deploying and managing OpenStack on Ubuntu using Juju. Here are some selected highlights from this most recent charm release. OpenStack Kilo support As always, we’ve enabled charm support for ...


Stéphane Graber
28 April 2015

Getting started with LXD – the container lightervisor

Cloud and server Article

Introduction For the past 6 months, Serge Hallyn, Tycho Andersen, Chuck Short, Ryan Harper and myself have been very busy working on a new container project called LXD. Ubuntu 15.04, due to be released this Thursday, will contain LXD 0.7 in its repository. This is still the early days and while we’re confident LXD 0.7 ...


Canonical
24 April 2015

DataArt’s DeviceHive platform arrives on Azure Marketplace

Cloud and server News

The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) enables businesses to predict when industrial equipment is going to fail, so that action can be taken beforehand. A leader in this space, DataArt, developed one of the first IoT and big data open sourced platforms, DeviceHive, and published on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. DataArt has collaborate ...


Free Ekanayaka
22 April 2015

Package management at scale with Landscape

Cloud and server Article

This post describes the design and implementation of a micro-service written in Go that has made it possible to massively scale Landscape’s package management features, supporting package-related queries across tens of thousands of registered systems. The feature The package management section in the Landscape web UI allows you to easily ...


Mark Baker
22 April 2015

Here comes Kilo and 15.04! Containers will never be the same again!

Cloud and server Article

Today Ubuntu 15.04, codenamed Vivid Vervet, is released with a host of new features for clouds and servers. 15.04 comes a full year since the last Long Term Support (LTS) release and a year before the next LTS so represents a milestone in which we bring in and start to settle down features we want ...