Cloud and server archives
9 posts from November 2013
Nearly 60% of OpenStack deployments use Ubuntu
By Mark Baker, 22 November 2013
The OpenStack Foundation recently conducted a survey, asking their members about how they used OpenStack.
MAAS and Juju in a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – Part 2
By Canonical, 19 November 2013
Enterprise environments rely on Ubuntu’s LTS (Long-term Support) release. Its established two year release cadence and five year security and maintenance...
Video: Ubuntu Cloud technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers
By Canonical, 18 November 2013
This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. ...
Interested in MAAS and Juju? Here’s how to try it in a VM
By Canonical, 15 November 2013
The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of...
Deploying Web Applications using Juju – (Part 3/3)
By Canonical, 7 November 2013
The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is...
A week in San Francisco
By Canonical, 7 November 2013
I recently attended my first cloud sprint meeting held in San Francisco, and it turned out to be a great experience. It’s been 10 years since I last visited,...
Planning a cathedral at the bazaar
By Peter Mahnke, 6 November 2013
So I am stretching the metaphor a bit, but I think it accurately explains my experience of the recent cloud sprint in San Francisco. The week starts with some...
Canonical keynote: building business value through interoperability
By Canonical, 5 November 2013
Watch Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, create an entire Ubuntu OpenStack cloud from scratch using building blocks chosen by his live...
Ubuntu OIL announced for broadest set of cloud infrastructure options
By Canonical, 5 November 2013
Today at the OpenStack Design Summit in Hong Kong, we announced the Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab (Ubuntu OIL). The programme will test and validate...