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Free Ekanayaka
22 April 2015

Package management at scale with Landscape

Cloud and server Article

This post describes the design and implementation of a micro-service written in Go that has made it possible to massively scale Landscape’s package management features, supporting package-related queries across tens of thousands of registered systems. The feature The package management section in the Landscape web UI allows you to easily ...


Mark Baker
22 April 2015

Here comes Kilo and 15.04! Containers will never be the same again!

Cloud and server Article

Today Ubuntu 15.04, codenamed Vivid Vervet, is released with a host of new features for clouds and servers. 15.04 comes a full year since the last Long Term Support (LTS) release and a year before the next LTS so represents a milestone in which we bring in and start to settle down features we want ...


Canonical
22 April 2015

10Duke joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to announce that 10Duke, the leading European backend as a service (BaaS) provider, is the latest partner to join the Canonical Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant workload deployment, integr ...


Canonical
22 April 2015

Canonical and QCT partnership extends to next-generation managed cloud

Cloud and server News

Bootstack now available on QCT Hardware Bundled proposition reduces cloud deployment from months to days Canonical and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) have extended their collaboration by bundling the most innovative managed cloud services, based on Ubuntu reference architecture on QCT hardware. Canonical’s reference architecture is designe ...


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 ...