Cloud and Server

IoT World: Snappy for Whitebox Switches

by Tom Callway on 13 May 2015

Canonical announces snappy switches with Ubuntu Core and network function apps Penguin Computing the first to ship network switches with snappy Ubuntu Core...

Canonical Cloud Chatter: April 2015 Newsletter

by Canonical on 12 May 2015

This April saw our new release, Ubuntu 15.04! We also have some great webinars, training courses and product announcements to tell you about and some exciting...

hSenid’s Telco Application Platform available in the Charm Store

by Canonical on 7 May 2015

Universal Modeling Language for Service-Oriented Architectures: Part 2

by Samuel Cozannet on 7 May 2015

In the first part of this two part blog we looked at why Canonical believes a new language is needed for modeling modern applications in the cloud. In this...

Market Leaders EMC and Canonical Extend OpenStack Partnership

by John Zannos on 6 May 2015

Today’s cloud workloads are driving storage requirements at an exponential rate, making storage an important part of any OpenStack deployment. Clients are...

Universal Modeling Language for Service-Oriented Architectures: Part 1

by Samuel Cozannet on 6 May 2015

Over the last 20 years, applications have moved from a monolithic mainframe perspective to a scale out vision. However, during this time the representation of...

Introduction to nova-compute-lxd

by Canonical on 6 May 2015

LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the...

Live Migration in LXD

by Canonical on 6 May 2015

There has been a lot of interest on the various mailing lists as well as internally at Canonical about the state of migration in LXD, so I thought I’d write a...

Using Snappy OVA Images when you don’t have a Cloud Fabric

by Canonical on 5 May 2015

The Snappy OVA images are nothing more than the Ubuntu Snappy Cloud images that have been wrapped up in an OVA container. Snappy Cloud Images expect to be...

Ubuntu Online Summit

by Amrisha Prashar on 1 May 2015

Next week, from the 5th to 7th of May, another edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking off. Three days of sessions for developers, designers, advocates,...

Neutron, 0mq and Git deployment – Ubuntu OpenStack 15.04 Charm Release

by James Page on 30 April 2015

Alongside the Ubuntu 15.04 release on the 23rd April, the Ubuntu OpenStack Engineering team delivered the latest release of the OpenStack charms for deploying...

Getting started with LXD – the container lightervisor

by Stéphane Graber on 28 April 2015

Introduction For the past 6 months, Serge Hallyn, Tycho Andersen, Chuck Short, Ryan Harper and myself have been very busy working on a new container project...