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Jacek Nykis
22 April 2015

Rewriting WordPress’ juju charms for security and HA on OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

Canonical’s IS department is responsible for running most of the company’s external and internal services. This includes services like Landscape and Launchpad as well as 3rd party software including internal and external wikis, WordPress blogs and Django sites. All new services are deployed with Juju and Mojo onto our OpenStack clouds but ...


Tom Haddon
21 April 2015

Giving developers production access without revealing secrets

Cloud and server Article

It’s a classic trade off in the devops world: On the one hand you want to give developers access to production systems so that they can see how their services are running and help debug problems that only occur in production. On the other hand, these are production services. As such they necessarily have access ...


Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: Desktop, Phone and IoT; towards a converged future

Desktop News

Ubuntu 15.04 desktop extends leadership of developer experience Snappy Ubuntu Core on general availability for the first time New developer tools allow immediate and constant access to latest updates London – 21 April, 2015. Ubuntu 15.04, the latest release from Canonical, will be available for download this week with updates across the d ...


Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: What’s new for cloud users?

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu 15.04: OpenStack ready to roll with Kilo and first outing of Snappy Core Adds LXD, a new hypervisor with incredible density and speed First release of Snappy Ubuntu Core for cloud container hosts and smart devices OpenStack “Kilo” – Ubuntu leads with choice of SDNs, easy install and management Updated developer tools for cloud ...


Canonical
20 April 2015

Why an AppScale / Canonical Partnership is Important

Cloud and server Article

It’s exciting to be partnering with Canonical / Ubuntu again as a member of their Charm Partner Program. This partnership is more than a simple “logo exchange.” AppScale and Canonical engineers worked closely to create a production-ready Charm that would offer users a full cloud stack (OS through aPaaS) at the click of a button. ...


Canonical
17 April 2015

Tendering with Ubuntu

Desktop Article

Public and private entities across the globe are increasingly turning towards Ubuntu for high performing robust solutions and saving millions in the process! Canonical recognises this growing demand and we are building more tools that will allow these entities to get product pre-loaded by OEMs which is fully enabled and compatible with th ...


Tom Callway
16 April 2015

Ubuntu OpenStack Summit Vancouver presentations

Cloud and server Article

  Please join us at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit. We’ll be giving the following presentations: Tuesday, May 19 Evil Superuser’s HOWTO: Launching instances to do your bidding 11:15am You click ‘run’ on the OpenStack dashboard, or launch a new instance via the api. Some provisioning magic happens and soon you’ve got a server created espec ...


Udi Nachmany
16 April 2015

Using Snappy Ubuntu Core on Certified Public Clouds

Cloud and server Article

In December we announced Snappy Ubuntu Core for the public cloud, and its availability in beta on Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, as well as Vagrant. Snappy is the smallest, leanest Ubuntu ever, perfect for ultra-dense computing in cloud container farms, Docker app deployments or PaaS environments. ...


Amrisha Prashar
16 April 2015

Phone updates: April

Phone and tablet Article

The team have been working hard on providing the latest Ubuntu Phone updates – please find them listed below. We’ll keep you posted on our next set due next month. OTA Much improved battery life – especially when the phone is in standby Uber scope available from the store (automatically added to NearBy when installed) ...


Charles Butler
16 April 2015

Expediting local isolation with Docker and Juju

Cloud and server Article

As a Juju charmer, I often find myself irate at the level of dependencies I’m installing on my workstation just to review OPC (Other Peoples Code). Though there are usually systems to isolate these dependencies like virtualenv and tools of this nature – nothing really beats having your own isolated system to catch all these ...


Nick Moffitt
15 April 2015

Using the Services Framework to Implement Your Charm’s Intent

Cloud and server Article

When we design our charms, we typically know the sources of information we have in mind (configuration settings, relation data, etc.), and the actions we want the charm to take based on them. As charm complexity grows, we tend to illustrate the resulting state machine’s conditions and actions as a directed graph, plotting out the ...