Cloud and server archives
12 posts from July 2019
Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS now available
By Canonical, 30 July 2019
AWS and Canonical today announce the public release of Amazon EC2 Hibernation support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Amazon EC2 Hibernation gives you the ability to...
Getting started with AI
By Alex Cattle, 25 July 2019
From the smallest startups to the largest enterprises alike, organisations are using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to make the best, fastest,...
The 10 new rules of open source infrastructure
By Stephan Fabel, 25 July 2019
Recently, I gave a keynote at the Cloud Native / OpenStack Days in Tokyo titled “the ten new rules of open source infrastructure”. It was well received and...
Getting Started with Serverless Computing using Knative
By Carmine Rimi, 25 July 2019
A portable, multi-cloud install for Knative, using Microk8s.
BT turns to Canonical Ubuntu to enable next generation 5G Cloud Core
By Canonical, 24 July 2019
Today, Canonical announces its Charmed OpenStack on Ubuntu has been selected by BT as a key component of its next generation 5G Core. Canonical, the company...
How to build a lightweight system container cluster
By Alex Cattle, 18 July 2019
LXD, the system container manager, developed by Canonical and shipped by default with Ubuntu, makes it possible to create many containers of various Linux...
Deploying Kubernetes at the edge – Part I: building blocks
By Carmine Rimi, 11 July 2019
Edge computing continues to gain momentum to help solve unique challenges across telco, media, transportation, logistics, agricultural and other market...
MAAS 2.6 – ESXi storage, multiple gateways, HTTP boot and more
By Andres Rodriguez, 9 July 2019
Canonical is happy to announce the availability of MAAS 2.6. This new release introduces a range of very exciting features and several improvements that...
Machine Learning: serving models with Kubeflow on Ubuntu, Part 1
By Carmine Rimi, 8 July 2019
This article is the first in a series of machine learning articles focusing on model serving. I assume you’re reading this article because you’re excited...
Analyze ACPI Tables in a Text File with FWTS
By Alex Hung, 8 July 2019
I often need to implement tests for new ACPI tables before they become available on real hardware. Fortunately, FWTS provides a framework to read ACPI tables’...
Ubuntu updates for TCP SACK Panic vulnerabilities
By Canonical, 5 July 2019
Issues have been identified in the way the Linux kernel’s TCP implementation processes Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) options and handles low Maximum...
Cloud Instance Initialisation with cloud-init
By Alex Cattle, 1 July 2019
Private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud… the variety of locations, platforms and physical substrate you can start a cloud instance on is vast....