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James Donner
30 January 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: January 2015 Newsletter

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This month, we had some news on Snappy, MAAS and Mojo, but also the results to our annual cloud survey are in! If that was not enough, find out more about our event plans over the next few weeks and sign up for our latest webinar! Here’s a quick recap of an exciting start to 2015. “Snappy”

James Donner
30 January 2015

Canonical
29 January 2015

Ubuntu Server and Cloud Survey reveals hybrid cloud, SDN and IoT on the rise

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Canonical ran its sixth annual Ubuntu Server and Cloud Survey at the end of 2014. The survey aims to provide an overview of the enterprise cloud market, including emerging and changing trends, current challenges and technology preferences. It also tracks the adoption of OpenStack and Ubuntu as well as public cloud...

Canonical
29 January 2015

Jorge O. Castro
28 January 2015

Datacentres in Containers, and Containers in Datacentres

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From months to one week: How IIJ is shipping OpenStack Clouds quicker with MAAS and Juju Technologies that enable companies to move quickly in the cloud are continuing to gain traction. When we heard that the Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) were using OpenStack, MAAS, and Juju to develop quick-to-deploy entire...

Jorge O. Castro
28 January 2015

Tom Haddon
20 January 2015

Mojo: Juju Service Orchestration distilled part 2

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In the previous post we introduced Mojo. Today we’re going to take a closer look at how it all fits together. mojo run is the most often used command. As a refresher, here’s the diagram explaining how Mojo’s manifest can be used in different environments: Mojo looks for a manifest file that defines the steps

Tom Haddon
20 January 2015

Ellen Arnold
16 January 2015

Skymind join Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to announce the newest addition to their Charm Partner Programme, Skymind. Skymind is the company behind the open-source project DeepLearning4J, which is the first commercial-grade, open-source deep-learning library written in Java. Samuel Cozannet, Strategic Programme Manager at Canonical says,...

Ellen Arnold
16 January 2015

Canonical
15 January 2015

VirtualBox extensions for MAAS

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During the last season’s holidays, I spent some time cleaning up demos and code that I use for my daily activities at Canonical. It’s nothing really sophisticated, but for me, and I suspect for some others too, a small set of scripts makes a big difference. In my daily job, I like to show live

Canonical
15 January 2015

Snappy Ubuntu Core now on the hypervisor of your choice with OVA

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When we launched snappy Ubuntu Core, we introduced it on Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, Amazon’s AWS and our KVM images. Immediately, developers were asking questions like, “where’s the Vagrant image?”, which we launched on 14 January 2015. The one final remaining question was “where are the images for <insert...

Canonical
15 January 2015

Canonical
14 January 2015

Announcing snappy Ubuntu Core on Vagrant cloud

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Last month, Canonical announced snappy Ubuntu Core, the new, transactional version of Ubuntu, designed for public clouds. So far, snappy Ubuntu Core images are available on Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, and Amazon AWS. Today, we are delighted to announce the addition of Vagrant images to this impressive...

Canonical
14 January 2015

Tom Haddon
13 January 2015

Mojo: Juju Service Orchestration distilled

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In Canonical’s IS Department we use Juju for service orchestration. It’s a great tool for quickly spinning up complex services, tying them together and scaling them out or in as needed. We use it for everything from the ubuntu.com website itself to click-packages, the system that underpins the Ubuntu phone. We even use it to

Tom Haddon
13 January 2015

John Dolen
13 January 2015

Ubuntu partner ecosystem growth continues

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Hear what our partners have to say. A primary reason for Ubuntu’s success is an active, and growing ecosystem of partners that work with us to build cloud solutions. This is no accident. We recognize the importance of partner solutions, and have worked diligently to provide programs and support to ensure that an Ubuntu based

John Dolen
13 January 2015

Canonical
9 January 2015

A year in the Cloud

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The Ubuntu Cloud Zeitgeist: a year in retrospective The new year is a perfect occasion to reflect on the road we just covered and how far we have come just in this past year. We opened 2014 shipping the new Ubuntu Server 14.04 on April 17, our third LTS release designed for the cloud. Including

Canonical
9 January 2015

Ellen Arnold
19 December 2014

StackStorm joins the Charm Partner Programme

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StackStorm is the newest member of Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme. StackStorm is an operations automation software that enables users to define and share operational patterns from events and triggers through to actions taken in response. “Both Canonical and StackStorm share a common goal in helping to alleviate...

Ellen Arnold
19 December 2014

Canonical
19 December 2014

Snappy Ubuntu Core now on AWS

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Canonical is delighted to announce the availability of snappy Ubuntu Core on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Snappy Ubuntu Core is a new ultra fast Ubuntu that is designed for extremely fast deployment on Amazon EC2. Ubuntu Core is the new “snappy” rendition of the popular cloud OS, with a very lean and secure base image

Canonical
19 December 2014

Jorge O. Castro
17 December 2014

Using Flannel and etcd for LXC container networking

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In this demo Charles Butler shows you how to use Flannel and etcd to network LXC containers. This allows you to Juju deploy to multiple hosts instead of one machine.

Jorge O. Castro
17 December 2014

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