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12 posts from April 2017
Cloud Chatter: April 2017
By James Donner, 28 April 2017
Welcome to our April edition. We begin with our recent release of Ubuntu 17.04 supporting the widest range of container capabilities. We have a selection of...
OpenStack public cloud, from Stockholm to Dubai and everywhere between
By Canonical, 24 April 2017
City Network joins the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) programme First major CPC Partner in the Nordics City Network, a leading European provider of...
Certified Ubuntu Images available on Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Service
By Canonical, 20 April 2017
Developers offered options of where to run either demanding workloads or less compute-intensive applications, in a highly available cloud environment. Running...
How we commoditised GPUs for Kubernetes
By Samuel Cozannet, 19 April 2017
[Edit 2017-04-20] A careful reader informed me (thanks for that HN user puzzle) that it is no longer required to run in privileged mode to access the GPUs in...
Unitas Global and Canonical provide fully-managed enterprise OpenStack
By Canonical, 18 April 2017
Unitas Global, the leading enterprise hybrid cloud solution provider, and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container,...
Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities
By Canonical, 13 April 2017
Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and...
General availability of Kubernetes 1.6 on Ubuntu
By Marco Ceppi, 12 April 2017
We are proud to release the latest Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) supporting Kubernetes version 1.6.1! Kubernetes 1.6 is a major milestone and it...
FAQs: Ensuring the ongoing security compliance of Ubuntu
By Dustin Kirkland, 11 April 2017
Canonical recently announced that the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017. Following the end-of-life of Ubuntu...
Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel
By Udi Nachmany, 5 April 2017
Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most...
Scalable, secure access to data with DBaaS on IBM LinuxONE
By Canonical, 5 April 2017
Imagine a world where developers can quickly stand-up new applications and database instances – without having to worry about limits to database growth or...
Cloud Chatter: March 2017
By James Donner, 3 April 2017
Our March edition is packed with exciting content. We begin with our recent announcement of Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance providing ongoing...
OVH joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme
By Canonical, 3 April 2017
Canonical and OVH announced they are engaging as partners in public cloud, VPS, bare metal and private cloud. OVH is joining the ranks of other cloud...