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TaNeisha Page
6 April 2016

OpenStack Spotlight – Ryan Beisner & James Wengraf

Cloud and server Article

This week we were able to catch up with Ryan Beisner who is an OpenStack QA Engineer. Ryan is super excited to share his experience with Canonical and his excitement about attending the OpenStack Summit. How long have you been with the company? I’m in my third year with Canonical.  In many ways, it has ...


Amrisha Prashar
6 April 2016

Phone Update: OTA-10 – New theme and color palette

Phone and tablet Article

We have a summary list of updates made for OTA-10 below! The following apps are now pre-installed by default: Email app (Dekko) Calendar app uNav   General enhancements: New theme and color palette Updated OOBE (Out Of Box Experience – provides a better initial setup experience for new users) Updated Edge tutorial VPN support added ...


James Donner
5 April 2016

Canonical Cloud Chatter: March 2016

Cloud and server Article

The focus for March has been preparing for our presence at the OpenStack Summit next month. We also announced our collaboration with Tele2 on moving their Network and IT infrastructure to the cloud. As always, you can learn more about Juju, MAAS, LXD and partner ecosystem updates in this month’s newsletter. Webinar: Discover the Cloud ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
1 April 2016

Infographic: OpenStack Interoperability Lab explained

Cloud and server Article

OIL (short for OpenStack Interoperability Lab) is an integration lab by Canonical, where we repeatedly test our cloud partners’ products, in countless Ubuntu OpenStack configurations. OIL demonstrates why our solution is trustworthy and the preferred choice over competing solutions. The infographic below introduces the basic facts about O ...


Stéphane Graber
1 April 2016

LXD 2.0: Image management [5/12]

Cloud and server Article

This is the fifth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Container imagesIf you’ve used LXC before, you probably remember those LXC “templates”, basically shell scripts that spit out a container filesystem and a bit of configuration.Most templates generate the filesystem by doing a full distribution bootstrapping on your local machine. Th ...


March’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: LEGO Serious Play Micro Lego Serious Play: How small can a useful tool for thinking be? The world’s 15 most complicated subway maps Railway maps Your Job Ad: The Start of a Great Hiring Experience Google Resizer Artist Creates Astonishing Ubuntu ...


Dustin Kirkland
1 April 2016

Still have questions about Bash and Ubuntu on Windows?

Cloud and server Article

Still have questions about Ubuntu on Windows?Watch this Channel 9 session, recorded live at Build this week, hosted by Scott Hanselman, with questions answered by Windows kernel developers Russ Alexander, Ben Hillis, and myself representing Canonical a ...


Ellen Arnold
31 March 2016

NFLabs joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to welcome NFLabs to the Charm Partner Programme.  The Charm Partner Programme enables Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to use the full power of Juju, the award-winning cloud services modelling and application abstraction tool from Canonical. Juju is for IT architects, administrators, devops, developers, data scien ...


Dustin Kirkland
30 March 2016

Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers

Cloud and server Article

I’m in San Francisco this week, attending Microsoft’s Build developer conference, as a sponsored guest of Microsoft.That’s perhaps a bit odd for me, as I hadn’t used Windows in nearly 16 years.  But that changed a few months ago, as I embarked on ...


Stéphane Graber
30 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Resource control [4/12]

Cloud and server Article

This is the fourth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Available resource limitsLXD offers a variety of resource limits. Some of those are tied to the container itself, like memory quotas, CPU limits and I/O priorities. Some are tied to a particular device instead, like I/O bandwidth or disk usage limits.As with all LXD configuration, ...


Canonical
29 March 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 beta now available for LinuxONE and z Systems

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu 16.04 is now available on IBM LinuxONE, System z12 and z13 providing an idea platform for developers using IoT applications. Ubuntu is the platform of choice for organisations running scale-out, next-generation workloads in the Cloud. Ubuntu dominates public cloud guest volume and production OpenStack deployments with up to 70% mar ...