Cloud and server archives
25 posts from April 2016
HOWTO: Ubuntu on Windows
By Dustin Kirkland, 14 April 2016
As announced last week, Microsoft and Canonical have worked together to bring Ubuntu’s userspace natively into Windows 10.As of today, Windows 10 Insiders can...
LXD 2.0: Docker in LXD [7/12]
By Stéphane Graber, 13 April 2016
This is the seventh blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Why run Docker inside LXDAs I briefly covered in the first post of this series, LXD’s focus is...
ScaleDB joins the Charm Partner Programme
By Ellen Arnold, 13 April 2016
Canonical is excited to announce that ScaleDB has joined the Charm Partner Programme (CPP). Canonical’s CPP helps solution providers make best use of...
Nova-LXD delivers bare-metal performance on OpenStack, while Ironic delivers NSA-as-a-Service
By Mark Shuttleworth, 13 April 2016
With the release of LXC 2.0 and LXD, we now have a pure-container hypervisor that delivers bare-metal performance with a standard Linux guest OS experience....
LXD 2.0: Remote hosts and container migration [6/12]
By Stéphane Graber, 12 April 2016
This is the sixth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Remote protocolsLXD 2.0 supports two protocols:LXD 1.0 API: That’s the REST API used between the...
Ubuntu OpenStack growth confirmed by latest OpenStack User Survey
By Canonical, 12 April 2016
The most recent OpenStack user survey has gone live. In it we see tremendous growth for Ubuntu OpenStack in production clouds. We’re super excited about the...
LXD networking: lxdbr0 explained
By Canonical, 7 April 2016
Recently, LXD stopped depending on lxc, and thus moved to using its own bridge, called lxdbr0. lxdbr0 behaves significantly differently than lxcbr0: it is...
infographic: How many people use Ubuntu?
By Alexia Emmanoulopoulou, 7 April 2016
Discover the range of industries, people and services that are using Ubuntu right now. Netflix. Snapchat. Dropbox. Uber. Tesla…and the International space...
OpenStack Spotlight – Ryan Beisner & James Wengraf
By TaNeisha Page, 6 April 2016
This week we were able to catch up with Ryan Beisner who is an OpenStack QA Engineer. Ryan is super excited to share his experience with Canonical and his...
Canonical Cloud Chatter: March 2016
By James Donner, 5 April 2016
The focus for March has been preparing for our presence at the OpenStack Summit next month. We also announced our collaboration with Tele2 on moving their...
Infographic: OpenStack Interoperability Lab explained
By Alexia Emmanoulopoulou, 1 April 2016
OIL (short for OpenStack Interoperability Lab) is an integration lab by Canonical, where we repeatedly test our cloud partners’ products, in countless Ubuntu...
LXD 2.0: Image management [5/12]
By Stéphane Graber, 1 April 2016
This is the fifth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Container imagesIf you’ve used LXC before, you probably remember those LXC “templates”, basically...