Cloud and Server

All you need to know about designing, building, and managing your
OpenStack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale-out deployment.


Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

What is Juju? (Introduction video)

Videos Cloud and server

This is a basic introductory video explaining what Juju is and how it can help you deploy workloads to the cloud.

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014


Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Automating Orchestration in the Cloud with Ubuntu Juju

Videos Cloud and server

Charles Butler explains how to automate orchestration with Juju during this talk at the 2014 USENIX Configuration Management Summit.

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014


Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Using the Local (LXC) Provider with Juju

Videos Cloud and server

Juju has the ability to leverage Linux containers (LXC) to deploy charms locally to your desktop/laptop. This lets you iterate quickly during development in a manner similar to a real cloud.

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014


Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Using and creating Juju Charm Bundles

Videos Cloud and server

A “bundle” is a set of Juju charms that come together as one file. It makes it easier for people to deploy complex sets of services in one go.

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014


Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Adding tests to your Juju charms with Amulet

Videos Cloud and server

In this charm workshop Marco Ceppi talks about how you can add tests to your Juju charms using Amulet, our test framework.

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014


Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Writing your own Juju plugins

Videos Cloud and server

Sometimes core Juju might not have a feature you want, or you want to put together custom scripts to make life easier. Juju has a plugin architecture that lets you do just that. In this workshop Marco Ceppi walks us through how to write your own plugin.

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014


Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Using Vagrant and Juju together

Videos Cloud and server

In this workshop we go over how to use Vagrant and Juju together for writing charms.

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014


Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Gettinng Started with Charm Testing

Videos Cloud and server

In this workshop we explain what Juju Charm testing is, how to get started using it, and how the infrastructure works. Make sure you check out the charm testing documentation so you can leverage these tools!

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014


Ellen Arnold
16 October 2014

Talligent newest member of Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

Article Cloud and server

We are excited to announce the membership of Talligent in Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme. Talligent empowers enterprises and service providers to deploy Business-Ready Clouds on OpenStack by dramatically improving the visibility and control of infrastructure consumption. This allows customers to differentiate and...

Ellen Arnold
16 October 2014


Canonical
15 October 2014

CloudSigma joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

News Cloud and server

Canonical is delighted to welcome CloudSigma as its newest Certified Public Cloud partner. CloudSigma now offers fully optimised and supported Ubuntu Server images, including the latest Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CloudSigma will also offer enterprise grade management, monitoring and commercial support direct from Canonical. As...

Canonical
15 October 2014


Canonical
13 October 2014

BootStack FAQs

Article Cloud and server

How do I get started with an on-premise OpenStack? Which hosting companies can I use? What tools do you use to build and manage my BootStack cloud? What do I get? What does managed mean? What does it include? How does the transfer option work? Is there a minimum commitment? What about scalability? Can I

Canonical
13 October 2014


John Zannos
10 October 2014

Ubuntu with Redis Labs, Altera and IBM Power supply new NoSQL data store solution

News Cloud and server

Big Data, scale and cloud are the big topics of technology today. Canonical with Ubuntu continues to drive innovation through commitment to openness and building a collaborative ecosystem. The key elements of this disruption include: innovation, automation, lower TCO, greater density, optimised power/performance ratios...

John Zannos
10 October 2014


Ellen Arnold
10 October 2014

Zabbix joins Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

Article Cloud and server

We are excited to announce Zabbix SIA, the newest member of our Charm Partner Programme.  This programme lets solution providers make best use of Canonical’s award-winning open source cloud orchestration tool, Juju, which allows them to: demo their product in minutes; instantly integrate it into hundreds of other...

Ellen Arnold
10 October 2014


Canonical
9 October 2014

Ubuntu OpenStack reference implementation

Article Cloud and server

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform. Ubuntu is the reference operating system for the OpenStack project, which is why deploying OpenStack with Ubuntu is the best way to ensure a straightforward implementation. Ubuntu OpenStack contains all the current integrated OpenStack projects and some additional...

Canonical
9 October 2014