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All you need to know about designing, building and managing your Openstack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale‑out deployment.
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The new simplicity to consume DPDK
by Christian Ehrhardt on 5 May 2016
DPDK is a fast moving project comprised of a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It utilizes polling threads, huge pages, numa locality...
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Security confinement in Ubuntu Core
by Gustavo Niemeyer on 4 May 2016
As much anticipated, the recent release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS included integrated support for snaps on classic Ubuntu. The snap format is part of Ubuntu Core, a...
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Ubuntu & IBM on POWER and LinuxOne Webinar
by Dustin Kirkland on 27 April 2016
I’m delighted to share the slides from our joint IBM and Canonical webinar about Ubuntu on IBM POWER8 and LinuxOne servers. You can download the PDF here,...
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LXD 2.0: Live migration [9/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 25 April 2016
This is the ninth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionOne of the very exciting feature of LXD 2.0, albeit experimental, is the support for...
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Making deep learning accessible on Openstack
by Samuel Cozannet on 25 April 2016
This week at the Openstack Developers Summit we are excited to showcase how Canonical with IBM, Mesosphere, Skymind and Data Fellas are working together to...
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OpenStack Spotlight Carlos Gonzales and Josh McJilton
by TaNeisha Page on 23 April 2016
Carlos Gonzales gives some insight about his role as a Engineer Manager for our Ecosystems and his outlook about meeting people at OpenStack. What does your...
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for IBM LinuxONE and IBM z Systems is now available
by John Zannos on 22 April 2016
With the release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS we now offer the same great Ubuntu experience on z Systems and LinuxONE servers as x86 and OpenPower platforms. Download...
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OpenStack Spotlight – Alexia Emmanoulopoulou and Danny Hammo
by TaNeisha Page on 19 April 2016
In this blog series, learn about life at Canonical through the employees working on the cloud side. Alexia Emmanoulopoulou: Marketing Manager – Demand...
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Mesosphere announce open source project backed by Canonical
by John Zannos on 19 April 2016
Today Mesosphere announced the open source release of the DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) Project, backed by dozens of partners including Canonical. DC/OS...
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Directly interacting with the LXD API
by Stéphane Graber on 18 April 2016
The next post in the LXD series is currently blocked on a pending kernel fix, so I figured I’d do an out of series post on how to use the LXD API...
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Charm 2.0 makes it even easier to publish charms
by Marco Ceppi on 16 April 2016
TL;DR There is a new package (and command) called charm that compliments the previous charm-tools package and provides a new way forward for managing charms and