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David Britton
30 January 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 30 January 2018

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Hello Ubuntu Server! The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team

David Britton
30 January 2018

Canonical
30 January 2018

NTT TechnoCross becomes Canonical Certified Support Partner in Japan

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NTT TechnoCross Corporation has signed a partnership agreement with Canonical to provide strengthened OSS support to its customers in Japan including OpenStack deployments. NTT TechnoCross will provide Japanese support for domestic customers and will be the first contact for customer enquiries and fault isolation and...

Canonical
30 January 2018

Stéphane Graber
29 January 2018

LXD weekly status #32

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The focus of this week has been preparing for our trip to Brussels where we’ll be spending 3 days all working together on LXD before attending and presenting at FOSDEM. @brauner is making good progress on preparing for the liblxc 3.0 release, moving all the various language bindings and tools out of the main tree

Stéphane Graber
29 January 2018

Michael Iatrou
26 January 2018

LXD: five easy pieces

Article Cloud and server

Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants. LXD optimizes resource allocation and utilization for Kubernetes clusters, modernizes workload management in HPC infrastructure and streamlines lift and shift for...

Michael Iatrou
26 January 2018

Christian Reis
24 January 2018

Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu: What you need to know

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As details of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities1 have become clearer a number of statements have been published by the multiple vendors affected; Canonical has issued advisories and updates on fixes and mitigations, the latest of which includes a first round of Spectre mitigations. However, most of these...

Christian Reis
24 January 2018

Canonical
24 January 2018

Kernel team summary – 24 January 2018

Article Cloud and server

January 09 through January 23 The Kernel Team is completely focused on addressing any Spectre and Meltdown issues as they arise. A secure Ubuntu is our top priority. No new Livepatches are being produced and our regular SRU cycles are suspended while we address Spectre and Meltdown. Spectre mitigation kernels are...

Canonical
24 January 2018

Stéphane Graber
24 January 2018

LXD weekly status #31

Article Cloud and server

Introduction Nothing too major happened this past week. Part of the time was at an internal planning meeting and the rest have been working on clustering, preparation for 3.0 and fixing a variety of bugs. Next week the entire LXD team will be traveling to Brussels to attend a small team sprint followed by FOSDEM!

Stéphane Graber
24 January 2018

Joshua Powers
23 January 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 23 January 2018

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The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list.

Joshua Powers
23 January 2018

Dustin Kirkland
17 January 2018

Spectre mitigation updates available for testing in Ubuntu Proposed

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Canonical holds Ubuntu to the highest standards of security and quality. This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753 (ie, Spectre / Variants 1 & 2) to their respective -proposed pockets for Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful), 16.04 LTS (Xenial), and 14.04 LTS (Trusty)....

Dustin Kirkland
17 January 2018

Stéphane Graber
16 January 2018

LXD weekly status #30

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Introduction The main highlight for this week was the inclusion of the new proxy device in LXD, thanks to the hard work of some University of Texas students! The rest of the time was spent fixing a number of bugs, working on various bits of kernel work, getting the upcoming clustering work to go

Stéphane Graber
16 January 2018

Kevin W Monroe
16 January 2018

Monitor your Kubernetes Cluster

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This article originally appeared on Kevin Monroe’s blog Keeping an eye on logs and metrics is a necessary evil for cluster admins. The benefits are clear: metrics help you set reasonable performance goals, while log analysis can uncover issues that impact your workloads. The hard part, however, is getting a slew of...

Kevin W Monroe
16 January 2018

Dean Henrichsmeyer
12 January 2018

Meltdown and Spectre Status Update

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On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 we released Ubuntu kernel updates for mitigation of CVE-2017-5754 (aka Meltdown / Variant 3) for the x86-64 architecture. Releases were made for the following supported Ubuntu series: 12.04 ESM Precise (kernel v3.2) 14.04 LTS Trusty (kernel v3.13) 16.04 LTS Xenial (kernel v4.4) 17.10 Artful...

Dean Henrichsmeyer
12 January 2018

David Britton
9 January 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 9 January 2018

Article Cloud and server

Hello Ubuntu Server! The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team

David Britton
9 January 2018

Stéphane Graber
8 January 2018

LXD weekly status #29

Article Cloud and server

Introduction And we’re back from the holidays! This “weekly” summary is covering everything that happened the past 3 weeks. The big highlight was the release of LXD 2.21 on the 19th of December. During the holidays, we merged quite a number of bugfixes and smaller features in LXC and LXD with the bigger feature...

Stéphane Graber
8 January 2018