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Dean Henrichsmeyer
6 November 2015

Using LXD with a file-based ZFS pool on Ubuntu Wily

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Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) comes natively with some technology previously only available in PPAs. LXD is a container hypervisor that enables and facilitates extensive and powerful management of LXC containers. It’s great for dense deployments, development environments, and specifically workloads that need to be as performant...

Dean Henrichsmeyer
6 November 2015


Dustin Kirkland
5 November 2015

LXD in the Sky with Diamonds

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Picture yourself containers on a server With systemd trees and spawned tty’s Somebody calls you, you answer quite quickly A world with the density so high – Sgt. Graber’s LXD Smarts Club Band Last week, we proudly released Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) — the final developer snapshot of the Ubuntu Server before we focus the majority

Dustin Kirkland
5 November 2015


Canonical
5 November 2015

Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD

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London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux virtualization and offers dramatic performance and density advantages over VMware ESX and Linux KVM for private and public cloud infrastructure. LXD delivers up to 15 times the...

Canonical
5 November 2015


James Donner
3 November 2015

ODS Tokyo: OpenStack For Everyone

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We kicked off OpenStack Summit Tokyo’s Thursday Track Day with Mark Shuttleworth’s opening address, “OpenStack for Everyone”. You can watch it yourself below” Highlights Large OpenStacks Are Choosing Ubuntu – Every six months, the OpenStack Foundation does a survey of users. In the most recent one, the number of...

James Donner
3 November 2015


Udi Nachmany
2 November 2015

Interoute accelerates enterprises’ move to the cloud – and to Ubuntu

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A new entrant to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Global IaaS in 2015 was the UK-based Interoute with its Virtual Data Centre (VDC). Not your typical cloud giant, Interoute VDC is the cloud services platform developed by Interoute Communications, the owner-operator of Europe’s largest network. Interoute’s network offering...

Udi Nachmany
2 November 2015


Serge Hallyn
30 October 2015

Nested containers in LXD

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We’ve long considered nested containers an important use case in lxc. Lxd is no different in this regard. Lately there have been several questionsIf you are using privileged lxd containers (security.privileged: true), then the only thing you need to do is to set the security.nesting flag to true:lxc launch ubuntu...

Serge Hallyn
30 October 2015


Canonical
30 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Three

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Mark Shuttleworth talks about why we build tools like OpenStack, its new features and how it is evolving for everyone. Day three of the summit didn’t feature highlighted keynote sessions like days one and two. But it did have an entire Canonical track schedule, which kicked off with Mark Shuttleworth talking about why we build

Canonical
30 October 2015


Randall Ross
29 October 2015

Everyone Can Have a New “Datacenter” Right Now, Even You!

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A (new) datacenter? Me? Really? Why would I want that? Answer 1: Because if you’re an individual, you have problems to solve that cannot be solved by consuming one more app from a store. Answer 2: Because if you’re a company, you have problems to solve that cannot be solved economically (if at all) by

Randall Ross
29 October 2015


Cory Johns
29 October 2015

Now you’re charming with layers

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Charming with layers is a relatively new approach to writing charms that we, as the Juju community, are begining to use. The idea is to allow better re-use of common code in charms, more well-defined and consistent implementations of interface protocols, and generally allow charm authors to focus on the parts of the charm that

Cory Johns
29 October 2015


Canonical
29 October 2015

The Ubuntu Online Summit starts next week

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Starting on Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th of November, a new edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking place next week. Three days of free and live content all around Ubuntu and Open Source: discussions, tutorials, demos, presentations and Q+As for anyone to get in touch with the latest news and technologies, and get

Canonical
29 October 2015


Canonical
29 October 2015

Midokura Integrates its Network Virtualization Technology with Ubuntu

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Midokura’s MidoNet Now Available to Canonical Customers Via Juju Charms Plugin, Offers Networking Overlay That Is Both Easy to Deploy and Scale Midokura, the global innovator in software network virtualization, has announced the integration of its flagship Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) technology with Ubuntu...

Canonical
29 October 2015


Canonical
29 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Two

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The keynote sessions that kicked off the second day of OpenStack Summit Tokyo continued the theme of containers, but got a little deeper into the business drivers, and the purposes of why we’re building scalable clouds. Resonant Japan talked about accelerating business operations, cost reductions, and supporting the...

Canonical
29 October 2015


Canonical
29 October 2015

Vendors support Ubuntu Core as neutral platform for switches

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Canonical accelerates disaggregation of switch hardware, operating system and network control software with snappy Ubuntu Core

Canonical
29 October 2015


Arturo Suarez
28 October 2015

Canonical Completes MSP/Cloud Verify Certification for BootStack

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MSP/Cloud Verify Program offers vendor agnostic Certification for Cloud and Managed Services Practitioners Worldwide; Provides Quality Assurance, and Stamp of Reliability for Current, Potential Customers We are proud to announce today that Canonical has successfully completed the MSPAlliance’s MSP/Cloud Verify Program...

Arturo Suarez
28 October 2015