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Ellen Arnold
17 March 2016

Juju Charm Partner News: March 2016

Cloud and server Article

In this issue: New features, tips and tricks: Juju’s Leadership feature Ecosystem growth: New Partners and Charms Upcoming events: Juju Office Hours, OpenStack Developer Summit and more Leadership With Juju 2.0 around the corner we’d like to dedicate this month’s tips section to Leadership. In the Juju context when we say Leadership we me ...


Stéphane Graber
16 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Installing and configuring LXD [2/12]

Cloud and server Article

This is the second blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Where to get LXD and how to install itThere are many ways to get the latest and greatest LXD. We recommend you use LXD with the latest LXC and Linux kernel to benefit from all its features but we try to degrade gracefully where possible to support older Linux distributions.The Ubun ...


Christian Reis
15 March 2016

Renting bare-metal (as a Service) with MAAS

Cloud and server Article

With the amount of industry excitement around virtualized cloud, it is easy to downplay the importance of directly utilizing bare metal infrastructure. And yet bare-metal is the one thing every experienced operator knows they can rely on when deploying mission-critical services, representing guaranteed resource, predictable performance, a ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
14 March 2016

Flexwebhosting spins up services in record time with Canonical

Cloud and server Case study

Flexwebhosting is one of the largest web hosting providers in the Netherlands with over 60,000 customers and houses over 6,500 web servers in different data centers in Amsterdam. Working with Canonical and choosing its managed cloud offering Bootstack as well as its service modelling tool Juju helped reduce time to service to minutes rath ...


Christian Reis
14 March 2016

Delivering Cloud Storage using Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

Are you offering cloud storage solutions to your end-customers? You could be, and given the potential, we reckon you should be. In the past 5 years software-defined storage (SDS) platforms like Ceph and Swift have evolved dramatically; today they are redefining the cost of durable, shared storage infrastructure delivered at enterprise-lev ...


Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD

Cloud and server Article

This is the first blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.A few common questions about LXDWhat’s LXD?At its simplest, LXD is a daemon which provides a REST API to drive LXC containers.Its main goal is to provide a user experience that’s similar to that of virtual machines but using Linux containers rather than hardware virtualization. How ...


Stéphane Graber
14 March 2016

The LXD 2.0: Blog post series [0/12]

Ubuntu Article

As we are getting closer and closer to tagging the final releases of LXC, LXD and LXCFS 2.0, I figured it would be a good idea to talk a bit about everything that went into LXD since we first started that project a year and a half ago.This is going to be a blog post series similar to what I’ve done for LXC 1.0 a couple years back.The topi ...


Jeff Pihach
10 March 2016

Juju GUI 2.1.0 – Juju 2.0 support and improvements to model creation

Cloud and server Article

We are excited to announce a new major release of the Juju GUI with support for Juju 2.0 (currently in beta). Juju 2.0 brings with it a ton of improvements, but one we’d like to highlight is the ability to create new models without needing to bootstrap them one by one. Interested? We explain all ...


James Donner
4 March 2016

Canonical Cloud Chatter: February 2016

Cloud and server Article

February was dominated by Mobile World Congress preparations, followed by an intense week in Barcelona. In parallel, we worked on our latest webinar, launched a new OpenStack cloud solution, and started planning for the OpenStack Summit in Austin! Read up to learn about our newest partners, and don’t forget to check out the video demo ...


Guest
3 March 2016

Pentaho Data Integration quickly with Juju

Cloud and server Article

Tom Barber at Meteorite explains how beneficial Juju Charms has been when migrating customer services from old, tricky servers. I promised a demo of Juju GUI in my earlier blog and we’ve worked hard on a Pentaho Data Integration charm, so I figured we’d combine the two. For those of you who don’t know, Juju ...


Amrisha Prashar
3 March 2016

Ubuntu and Startups are a match made in code

Internet of Things Article

We’ve just come back from an awesome MWC! Not only did we showcase new tablets, phones and developments in Cloud, but we had a whole wall dedicated to IoT established companies and startups using Ubuntu Core. Our partner startups ranged from wireless base stations, smart cities, autonomous drones through to showing how the future of ...