Cloud and server archives
16 posts from January 2018
Ubuntu Server development summary – 30 January 2018
By David Britton, 30 January 2018
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....
NTT TechnoCross becomes Canonical Certified Support Partner in Japan
By Canonical, 30 January 2018
NTT TechnoCross Corporation has signed a partnership agreement with Canonical to provide strengthened OSS support to its customers in Japan including...
LXD weekly status #32
By Stéphane Graber, 29 January 2018
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...
LXD: five easy pieces
By Michael Iatrou, 26 January 2018
Machine containers, like LXD, proliferate in the datacenters: they provide a native control plane for OpenStack and a lightweight hypervisor for its tenants....
Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu: What you need to know
By Christian Reis, 24 January 2018
As details of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities1 have become clearer a number of statements have been published by the multiple vendors affected;...
Kernel team summary – 24 January 2018
By Canonical, 24 January 2018
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...
LXD weekly status #31
By Stéphane Graber, 24 January 2018
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,...
Ubuntu Server development summary – 23 January 2018
By Joshua Powers, 23 January 2018
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...
Spectre mitigation updates available for testing in Ubuntu Proposed
By Dustin Kirkland, 17 January 2018
Canonical holds Ubuntu to the highest standards of security and quality. This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for...
LXD weekly status #30
By Stéphane Graber, 16 January 2018
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...
Monitor your Kubernetes Cluster
By Kevin W Monroe, 16 January 2018
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:...
Meltdown and Spectre Status Update
By Dean Henrichsmeyer, 12 January 2018
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...