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Scott Moser
10 December 2014

Snappy Ubuntu Core and uvtool

Internet of Things Article

Earlier this week, Ubuntu announced the Snappy Ubuntu Core . As part of the announcement, a set of qemu based instructions were included for checking out a snappy image on your local system.  In addition to that method, we’ve been working on updates to bring support for the transactional images to uvtool. Have you used uvtool before?  I l ...


Canonical
9 December 2014

A new, transactionally updated “snappy” Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

Today we’re announcing “snappy” Ubuntu Core, a new rendition of Ubuntu for the cloud with transactional updates. Ubuntu Core is a minimal server image with the same libraries as today’s Ubuntu, but applications are provided through a simpler mechanism. The snappy approach is faster, more reliable, and lets us provide stronger security gua ...


mark
9 December 2014

Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates!

Internet of Things Article

Ubuntu Core brings the bulletproof update mechanism and application isolation security from the Ubuntu phone to the cloud. It creates the smallest, most secure rendition of Ubuntu ever! And it’s really amazing as a platform for container-based deployment with tools like Docker. If you want the very latest goodness together with the tradit ...


Jorge O. Castro
8 December 2014

Charm Workshop: Writing Charms for Restrictive Networks

Cloud and server Videos

In an ideal world your systems can reach any internet resource for whatever they need for deployment. However the real world is different, and many production networks have proxies or other restricted network policies that make writing charms challenging. In this charm school Matt Bruzek highlights some of the methods you can use to make ...


Canonical
4 December 2014

Canonical and Data Foundry to provide hosted private cloud

Cloud and server News

Canonical announces a partnership with Data Foundry, a leading provider of global data centre, colocation and managed services, to offer a fully managed private cloud service powered by OpenStack. The service will be hosted in Data Foundry’s premium data centres and global colocation facilities and operated by its experienced team. The of ...


Canonical
25 November 2014

Got 64-bit ARM Hardware?

Cloud and server Article

ARMv8 X-Gene X-C1 Development Systems, powered by Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, now available through Applied Micro’s developer enablement program. One of the hottest topics to emerge in the scale-out server space is the ARM-based server. These highly integrated systems, powered by CPUs which are in effect complete Systems-on-a-Chip, bring the promis ...


Canonical
21 November 2014

Turbo Charge Your PHP Application with TurboLAMP.

Cloud and server Article

Are you working on Cloud, Mobile and Big Data solutions that rely on PHP? Ubuntu on POWER can help turbo charge your LAMP stack. Working closely with IBM and our partners, we have what we believe is a compelling solution called TurboLAMP. You can have the opportunity to “test drive” the TurboLAMP stack with your ...


Jorge O. Castro
21 November 2014

Charm Workshop: Debugging Juju Hooks

Cloud and server Videos

In this charm school Charles Butler and Corey Johns go over the traditional way to debug Juju charm hooks, and Corey introduces his new Juju plugin, DHX, designed to make debugging hooks much easier. Corey’s debug hook script, DHX, is available here: https://github.com/juju/plugins ...


Canonical
20 November 2014

MAAS 1.7: one MAAS, multiple operating systems

Cloud and server Article

A few weeks ago, we released Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for servers and cloud, which included a beta version of Metal-As-A-Service (MAAS) 1.7. Today, we are delighted to release this version for general availability. The flagship new feature is that MAAS is now able to provision all major server operating systems. Together with its support for ...


Jorge O. Castro
18 November 2014

Charm Workshop: Your first five minutes of charming

Cloud and server Videos

As part of the Ubuntu Online Summit, Charles Butler and the rest of the crew go over some things you might want to consider during your first five minutes of charming. ...


Canonical
14 November 2014

Bare-metal magic at the Open Compute Summit

Cloud and server Videos

In the week before the OpenStack Summit, Mark Shuttleworth was a keynote speaker at the Open Compute Summit (OCP) in Paris. Mark gave an overview of the evolution of bare-metal systems, especially in the context of scale-out workloads. The highlight of the speech however, were the live demos he gave. The first demo was a ...