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Canonical
14 January 2015

Announcing snappy Ubuntu Core on Vagrant cloud

Cloud and server Article

Last month, Canonical announced snappy Ubuntu Core, the new, transactional version of Ubuntu, designed for public clouds. So far, snappy Ubuntu Core images are available on Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, and Amazon AWS. Today, we are delighted to announce the addition of Vagrant images to this impressive line-up [1, 2]. These ima ...


Tom Haddon
13 January 2015

Mojo: Juju Service Orchestration distilled

Cloud and server Article

In Canonical’s IS Department we use Juju for service orchestration. It’s a great tool for quickly spinning up complex services, tying them together and scaling them out or in as needed. We use it for everything from the ubuntu.com website itself to click-packages, the system that underpins the Ubuntu phone. We even use it to ...


John Dolen
13 January 2015

Ubuntu partner ecosystem growth continues

Cloud and server Videos

Hear what our partners have to say. A primary reason for Ubuntu’s success is an active, and growing ecosystem of partners that work with us to build cloud solutions. This is no accident. We recognize the importance of partner solutions, and have worked diligently to provide programs and support to ensure that an Ubuntu based ...


Canonical
9 January 2015

A year in the Cloud

Cloud and server Article

The Ubuntu Cloud Zeitgeist: a year in retrospective The new year is a perfect occasion to reflect on the road we just covered and how far we have come just in this past year. We opened 2014 shipping the new Ubuntu Server 14.04 on April 17, our third LTS release designed for the cloud.  Including ...


Ellen Arnold
19 December 2014

StackStorm joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

StackStorm is the newest member of Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme.  StackStorm is an operations automation software that enables users to define and share operational patterns from events and triggers through to actions taken in response. “Both Canonical and StackStorm share a common goal in helping to alleviate common pain points fo ...


Canonical
19 December 2014

Snappy Ubuntu Core now on AWS

Cloud and server News

Canonical is delighted to announce the availability of snappy Ubuntu Core on Amazon Web Services (AWS).  Snappy Ubuntu Core is a new ultra fast Ubuntu that is designed for extremely fast deployment on Amazon EC2. Ubuntu Core is the new “snappy” rendition of the popular cloud OS, with a very lean and secure base image ...


Canonical
18 December 2014

Developer Innovation Contest launched with China Mobile

Phone and tablet News

“AND Your Dream Come True” Million Youths Entrepreneurship and Employment Programme “Ubuntu Developer Innovation Contest” officially launched China Mobile and its industry partner Canonical today announce the launch of the “Ubuntu Developer Innovation Contest”, aimed at giving young developers new, innovative entrepreneurial opportunities ...


Jorge O. Castro
17 December 2014

Using Flannel and etcd for LXC container networking

Cloud and server Videos

In this demo Charles Butler shows you how to use Flannel and etcd to network LXC containers. This allows you to Juju deploy to multiple hosts instead of one machine. ...


Maarten Ectors
16 December 2014

Truphone uses Juju to demo world’s first telecom solution in minutes

Cloud and server Article

World’s first demo of live, open source telecom service runs in the cloud … and all in software Truphone‘s head of R&D together with TeleStax, Metaswitch and Canonical – have demonstrated the world’s first provisioning and operation of a cloud-based IMS core and application server for a live voting service using the Truphone network. Four ...


Canonical
16 December 2014

Snappy Ubuntu Core comes to Google Compute Engine

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is delighted to announce the availability of snappy Ubuntu Core on Google Compute Engine, making the fastest Ubuntu now instantly accessible on the fastest cloud in the industry. Ubuntu Core is the new “snappy” rendition of the world’s favourite cloud OS, with a very lean and secure base image that features transactional updates ...


Scott Moser
11 December 2014

Snappy Ubuntu Core and cloud-init

Internet of Things Article

Snappy Ubuntu Core was announced this week.  In yesterday’s blog post (Snappy Ubuntu Core and uvtool) I showed how you can use uvtool to create and manage snappy instances.Now that we’ve got that covered, let’s look deeper into a very cool feature – the ability to customize the instance and automate its startup and configuration.  For exa ...