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Amrisha Prashar
7 August 2015

Celebrate the new Film Scope with DJ Yoda

Phone and tablet Article

With the launch of the new Film Scope on the Ubuntu phone, users can now watch movie trailers, read reviews and discover film choices. We’ve managed to get Sci-Fi fan and famous DJ Yoda on-board to be part of a new competition we’re launching. We’re inviting the public to create their own Sci-Fi film GIFS ...


Robin Winslow
5 August 2015

Vanilla: Creating a modular Sass library

Ubuntu Notes

We recently introduced Vanilla framework, a light-weight styling framework which is intended to replace the old Guidelines framework as the basis for our Ubuntu and Canonical branded sites and others. One of the reasons we created Vanilla was because we ran into significant problems trying to use Guidelines across multiple different sites ...


Maarten Ectors
5 August 2015

The first app-enabled spider

Internet of Things Article

If you are into robot spiders then the erle-spider is something to look forward to. It will be the first app-enabled Snappy Ubuntu Core and ROS powered robot spider. Curious to see what people will do with it   ...


Randall Ross
4 August 2015

Juju: Re-Framing the Discussion

Cloud and server Article

A while back, just before Dockercon 2015, the friendly folks behind Ubuntu, Juju, LXD, and a whole bunch of other goodness hosted a special event that was all about service modelling, orchestration, and making all the container-y Docker-y stuff work we ...


Ryan Finnie
4 August 2015

Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

It’s a topic many people don’t like to think about: backups. In addition to making sure your cloud environments are correctly deployed, highly available, secured and monitored, you need to make sure they are backed up for disaster recovery purposes. (And no, replication is not the same as backups.) Canonical’s IS team is responsible for ...


James Donner
3 August 2015

NFV with Juniper OpenContrail and Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver

Cloud and server Videos

 Arguably, the pressure on carriers to find new and innovative ways to develop and deliver new, sticky services has never been greater. Wannabe service providers such as Google, Amazon and Netflix, are finding ever more nimble ways to design and launch innovative new services. It’s their ability to deploy thousands of new machines with ...


Canonical
3 August 2015

Juju – It’s About Building Relationships!

Cloud and server Article

I admit it, I was excited about Juju before I even fully understood it. But isn’t that part of the magic of anything called Juju? I’m new to Canonical, I’m less than a month into my tenure here. But I’m already super excited to have joined. What has me so excited? The company‘s vision, and ...


Maarten Ectors
3 August 2015

Java on Snappy

Internet of Things Article

Snapcraft is a new tool allowing developers to easily and quickly package their favourite projects as Snappy Apps or Snaps. Since lots of enterprise developers are using Java for IoT, we wanted to show a preview of how to package a Java war, Tomcat and a JDK as a Snap. The video also shows how to deploy a ...


Jorge O. Castro
31 July 2015

Conducting Systems & Services: An Evening About Orchestration

Cloud and server Videos

Orchestration of containers is one of the hottest topics in devops. Prior to Dockercon this year we thought it would be a great idea to bring in some of the thought leaders in this area and have a discussion of the challenges that face devops today and how solving large scale problems can help drive ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
30 July 2015

ODS Video: Making Large-scale Data Centre Deployment Easy With MAAS

Cloud and server Article

Why has cloud computing been so successful? Arguably, it’s the 70s-style pay-as-you-go model of computing that allows companies a low-cost way to build a cloud from zero. More importantly, it’s how the cloud solves the problem of quick machine deployment in fast-paced business environments – provisioning a new PC in minutes. But what if y ...