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Cloud and server
Cloud and server
Cloud and server
How modelling helps you avoid getting a stuck OpenStack
by Mark Baker on 18 July 2017
Lego model of an Airbus A380-800. Airbus run OpenStack A “StuckStack” is a deployment of OpenStack that usually, for technical but sometimes business reasons, is unable to be upgraded without significant disruption, time and expense. In …
Cloud and server
Customising MAAS installs
by Canonical on 2 June 2017
by Matt Jarvis, Consulting Architect at Canonical Canonical’s MAAS is a bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management system. In this post, we’ll look at customising installs provisioned by MAAS to enable site specific configuration. Historically, the …
Cloud and server
Bare metal server provisioning is evolving the HPC market
by Canonical on 27 March 2017
In the early days of High Performance Computing (HPC), ‘Big Data’ was just called ‘Data’ and organizations spent millions of dollars to buy mainframes or large data processing/warehousing systems just to gain incremental improvements in the …
Cloud and server
Cloud and server
Deploying Kubernetes on AWS, GCE and bare metal
by Jorge O. Castro on 2 March 2017
As part of of the weekly Kubernetes Community meeting Marco Ceppi deploys a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on AWS, GCE, and bare metal. If you’re interested in bare metal Kubernetes, we invite you to join us …
Cloud and server
Bare metal server provisioning series: the economics of automation
by Canonical on 2 March 2017
This is the first in a series of blogs posts discussing the value of bare metal server provisioning and the economics it can bring to businesses. The server industry is becoming more and more automated. Robots …
Cloud and server
Webinar: Get cloud-ready servers in minutes with MAAS
by Canonical on 22 February 2017
Learn how to take full advantage of existing hardware investments by maximising hardware efficiency. This live webinar was broadcasted on Wednesday 15th Mach 2017. Watch it on-demand now. Data center operators are quickly becoming more automated …
Cloud and server
Installing a DIY bare metal GPU cluster for Kubernetes
by Samuel Cozannet on 30 January 2017
I don’t know if you have ever seen one of the Orange Boxes from Canonical These are really sleek machines. They contain 10 Intel NUCs, plus an 11th one for the management. They are used as …
Cloud and server
What IT pros need to know about server provisioning
by Canonical on 23 January 2017
Big Software, IoT and Big Data are changing how organisations are architecting, deploying, and managing their infrastructure. Traditional models are being challenged and replaced by software solutions that are deployed across many environments and many servers. …
Cloud and server
MAAS 2.0: high availability API-driven bare metal provisioning
by Christian Reis on 8 September 2016
This week, the result of over a year of work by our engineering team is concluded: the final release of MAAS 2.0 is now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and additionally from our stable release PPA. …