Joshua Powers

Joshua Powers

37 posts

Public Cloud

Joshua Powers is a senior engineering on the Public Cloud team at Canonical. The team is responsible for generating the Ubuntu images used by millions of users on public and private clouds around the world. He previously ran the Ubuntu Server team where he was responsible for delivering technology behind Ubuntu Server and the overall quality of each release.


Joshua Powers
24 July 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 24 July 2018

Article Cloud and server

The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. cloud-init

Joshua Powers
24 July 2018


Joshua Powers
3 July 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 03 July 2018

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The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. Spotlight:

Joshua Powers
3 July 2018


Joshua Powers
19 June 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 19 June 2018

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The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. cloud-init

Joshua Powers
19 June 2018


Joshua Powers
5 June 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 05 June 2018

Article Cloud and server

The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. cloud-init

Joshua Powers
5 June 2018


Joshua Powers
29 May 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 29 May 2018

Article Cloud and server

The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. cloud-init

Joshua Powers
29 May 2018


Joshua Powers
22 May 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 22 May 2018

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Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team

Joshua Powers
22 May 2018


Joshua Powers
15 May 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 15 May 2018

Article Cloud and server

The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. cloud-init

Joshua Powers
15 May 2018


Joshua Powers
8 May 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 08 May 2018

Article Cloud and server

The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. cloud-init

Joshua Powers
8 May 2018


Joshua Powers
9 April 2018

Ubuntu Bionic: Using chrony to configure NTP

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog   Using chrony to configure NTP Starting with Ubuntu Bionic, the choice for fast and accurate time synchronization is chrony. For the features available with chrony and how chrony compares to other time synchronization implementations check out the comparison page...

Joshua Powers
9 April 2018


Joshua Powers
3 April 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 4 April 2018

Article Cloud and server

Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team

Joshua Powers
3 April 2018


Joshua Powers
2 April 2018

Using cloud-init with Multipass

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog cloud-init + Multipass Multipass is a quick and easy way to launch virtual machine instances running Ubuntu. Cloud-init is the standard for customizing cloud instances and now Multipass can also make use of cloud-init to customize an instance during launch. Below...

Joshua Powers
2 April 2018


Joshua Powers
23 January 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 23 January 2018

Article Cloud and server

  The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list.

Joshua Powers
23 January 2018


Joshua Powers
15 December 2017

cloud-init 17.2 Released

Article Cloud and server

As announced, cloud-init 17.2 was released this week. From the announcement, some highlights include: CLI added the clean and status subcommands Support for identifying OVF datasource provided by VMware NoCloudKVM tests now run in continuous

Joshua Powers
15 December 2017


Joshua Powers
1 December 2017

Ubuntu Bionic: Netplan

Article Cloud and server

NetplanFor this week’s Bionic test blitz I am looking at Netplan! Netplan enables easily configuring networking on a system via YAML files. Netplan processes the YAML and generates the required configurations for either NetworkManager or systemd-network the system’s renderer.Netplan replaced ifupdown as the default...

Joshua Powers
1 December 2017