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10 posts from March 2020
Kubernetes 1.18 available from Canonical
By Canonical, 24 March 2020
Canonical today announced full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.18, with support covering Charmed Kubernetes, MicroK8s and kubeadm. Committed to releasing...
Ceph Octopus is now available
By Alex Chalkias, 24 March 2020
Ceph upstream released the first stable version of ‘Octopus’ today, and you can test it easily on Ubuntu with automatic upgrades to the final GA release. This...
Canonical Technical Support for Ubuntu and open source during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Canonical, 19 March 2020
All technical support services are currently at 100% SLA. We have updated our operational plan to accommodate expected sick leave among colleagues and their...
Update: Canonical managed services and Ubuntu support during COVID-19 outbreak
By Mark Shuttleworth, 19 March 2020
SUMMARY Canonical’s fully managed OpenStack, Kubernetes, Kafka, Elastic, Postgres and other open source stacks, are operating at full SLA. Ubuntu and broader...
Kubernetes 1.18 release candidate available for testing
By Alex Chalkias, 18 March 2020
The latest release of Kubernetes is now available for download and experimentation, with the MicroK8s Kubernetes 1.18 release candidate. The easiest, fastest...
SBI Group unlocks infrastructure automation with secure, on-premises OpenStack cloud
By Alex Cattle, 17 March 2020
SBI BITS provides IT services and infrastructure to the SBI Group — Japan’s market leading financial services company group — which is made up of over 250...
MAAS controller communication
By Bill Wear, 11 March 2020
Much of the functionality of MAAS is contained in controllers. There are two basic types: a region controller and a rack controller. It’s useful to pull back...
Interana uses ESM to maintain system security while upgrading its customers to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS across public clouds
By Alex Cattle, 10 March 2020
Interana, an analytics software provider, enables users to run advanced big data queries on raw customer data and delivers answers in seconds. Their customers...
Hosted private cloud infrastructure: a cost analysis
By Alex Cattle, 6 March 2020
Private cloud infrastructure remains an essential part of every enterprise nowadays. However, due to the increasing number of workloads and data, the overhead...
Anbox Cloud – An introduction
By Alex Cattle, 3 March 2020
Anbox Cloud, Canonical’s recently launched platform, delivers Android at scale in the cloud. Leveraging Android as a guest operating system to virtualise...