Cloud and server archives
12 posts from June 2020
Data centre automation for HPC
By Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez, 29 June 2020
Friction points in HPC DevOps Many High Performance Computing (HPC) setups are still handcrafted configurations where tuning changes can take days or weeks....
Installing ROS in LXD Containers
By sidfaber, 29 June 2020
It’s the season for updates. The last few weeks have ushered in ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2 Foxy, both of which target the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 Focal...
What is Apache Kafka?
By robgibbon, 29 June 2020
Discover Charmed Kafka Everyone hates waiting in a queue. On the other hand, when you’re routing an absolute storm of event data around a cloud environment,...
Ceph storage on VMware
By Alex Chalkias, 25 June 2020
If you were thinking that nothing will change in your VMware data centre in the following years, think again. Data centre storage is experiencing a paradigm...
AMD EPYC Rome support in Ubuntu Server
By esj, 24 June 2020
The second generation of AMD EPYC central processing unit (CPU), codenamed Rome, provides outstanding performance and “hardened at the code” security. It was...
Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution?
By Tytus Kurek, 16 June 2020
Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution? If you are asking, you are probably wondering if you can use Ubuntu anywhere else other than your workstation or...
OVHcloud drives flash storage strategy with LXD
By Canonical, 15 June 2020
With more than 1.5 million global customers – including Sainsburys and Michelin – OVHcloud is Europe’s largest cloud computing provider, and the third largest...
Ubuntu at the Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 9 June 2020
Event overview and main themes On June 16th 2020, the Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit will be the occasion to meet and hear from all the...
Fabrica – Your self-hosted snap factory
By Igor Ljubuncic, 5 June 2020
There are many ways one can go about building snaps. You can do it on your local system, by manually running commands in a terminal window. If you have a...
OSM#9 Hackfest: the highlights
By Alex Chalkias, 5 June 2020
Canonical concluded its participation in the 9th OSM Hackfest with a renewed sense of fellowship with the Open Source MANO (OSM) community and great pride in...
MicroK8s now native on Windows and macOS
By Canonical, 2 June 2020
Windows and macOS developers can now use MicroK8s natively! Use kubectl at the Windows or Mac command line to interact with MicroK8s locally just as you would...
Open source software for open infrastructure
By Tytus Kurek, 1 June 2020
Implementing infrastructure using open-source software significantly reduces the total cost of ownership (TOC) of your infrastructure. Over the last few...