Cloud and Server

5 Cool things Canonical does with Go

by didrocks on 18 January 2017

We had the recent news that Google’s Go was awarded programming language of 2016 by TIOBE! One of the main reasons for winning is the ease of learning and...

What IT directors should know about the economics of OpenStack

by Mark Baker on 3 January 2017

The world of business technology is under tremendous pressure and most organizations are ill-equipped to deal with the challenges and opportunities that are...

Cloud Chatter- December 2016

by James Donner on 21 December 2016

Welcome to our final cloud news round-up for 2016. In this issue, you’ll find details of our upcoming OpenStack and Containers office hours sessions and you...

Canonical Livepatch Service update – December 2016

by Canonical on 21 December 2016

The following kernel security vulnerabilities were addressed through live patches on Ubuntu – to ensure you have the fixes, either install at...

Announcing The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes 1.5.1

by Jorge O. Castro on 16 December 2016

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by Jorge O. Castro on 15 December 2016

It’s been a great year for Ubuntu. More and more cloud users are turning to Ubuntu for their needs on public clouds. On the private cloud side you can find us...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Security: A Comprehensive Overview

by Dustin Kirkland on 8 December 2016

From Linux kernel livepatches to encryption to ASLR to compiler optimizations and configuration hardening, we strive to ensure that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is the...

Mounting your home directory in LXD

by Canonical on 8 December 2016

As of LXD stable 2.0.8 and feature release 2.6, LXD has support for various UID and GID map related manipulaions. A common question is: “How do I bind-mount...

LXD 2.0: LXD and OpenStack [11/12]

by Stéphane Graber on 7 December 2016

This is the eleventh blog post in this series about LXD 2.0. Introduction First of all, sorry for the delay. It took quite a long time before I finally...

Cloud Chatter: November 2016

by James Donner on 2 December 2016

Welcome to our November edition. We begin with details on our latest partnership with Docker. Next up, we bring you a co-hosted webinar with PLUMgrid...

Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes reduces operational friction

by Canonical on 1 December 2016

Linux containers (LXC) are one of the hottest technologies in the market today. Developers are adopting containers, especially Docker, as a way to speed-up...