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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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Ubuntu Cloud Guest
by peter-mahnke on 29 August 2013
Ubuntu is the most popular guest operating system in the world’s major public clouds. What makes Ubuntu such a natural choice for cloud providers and users?...
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OpenStack primer
by Canonical on 29 August 2013
This short document introduces you to OpenStack and its components, what you can change and customise, and why Ubuntu and OpenStack work so well together.
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Top 10 questions about MAAS
by Canonical on 29 August 2013
This FAQ summarises the most important things you need to know about MAAS (metal-as-a-service). It covers what MAAS is, how it works with other Ubuntu cloud...
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Top 12 questions about Juju
by Canonical on 29 August 2013
Why is Juju the most amazing service modelling tool currently available on the market, and why is it the best, easiest, and fastest way to deploy services and...
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Ubuntu OpenStack Jumpstart
by Canonical on 29 August 2013
On-site Canonical engineers will help you deploy a reference cloud for your department or company, based on the same technologies that power the Rackspace and...
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Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme
by Canonical on 29 August 2013
Joining Canonical’s Certified Public Cloud Programme is the only way to ensure that your customers get the best Ubuntu experience in your public cloud. The...
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Ubuntu OpenStack factsheet
by Canonical on 29 August 2013
Ubuntu OpenStack offers an industry-leading, powerful toolset to enable you to build the most flexible and reliable cloud on OpenStack. What exactly makes up...
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Juju Charm Championship expands with more categories, more prizes
by Canonical on 27 August 2013
The Charm Championship is underway, but there’s still plenty of time to get involved. Today we’re announcing the addition of three new entry categories, each...
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Usability testing: how do we design effective tasks
by Canonical on 16 August 2013
Previously, Charline Poirier provided an excellent post about how to recruit representative participants for usability testing. To continue the story, we are...
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When it comes to scale, size doesn’t matter
by Mark Baker on 2 August 2013
This is the first in a series of articles about the best ways to manage scale out workloads. Scale. We hear a lot about managing scale being one of the key...
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A successful (and busy!) week at OSCON
by Canonical on 1 August 2013
Last week, we attended OSCON in Portland, Oregon and had a jam-packed event! We presented seven sessions throughout the week, including Community Management...
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Could your startup use some cloud magic?
by Canonical on 24 July 2013
As a small startup, it’s frustrating to watch the big companies pushing code to production multiple times a day. In an ideal world we’d all be able to...