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Canonical
14 August 2015

7iSolutions joins Charm Partner Programme

News Cloud and server

Canonical is excited to announce that 7iSolutions has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling at the click of a button. Juju makes it...

Canonical
14 August 2015


Canonical
13 August 2015

France Labs joins the Charm Partner Programme

News Cloud and server

Canonical is excited to announce that France Labs has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration and scaling on virtually any public or private...

Canonical
13 August 2015


Dustin Kirkland
12 August 2015

Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list of sponsors, many of them newcomers to this particular technology, teaming with energy around containers. From chroots to BSD Jails and Solaris Zones, the concepts...

Dustin Kirkland
12 August 2015


Jorge O. Castro
11 August 2015

How Netflix tunes Ubuntu on EC2

Tutorials Cloud and server

One of the nice things about having Netflix running Ubuntu is that the community can take advantage of the lessons they learn about running services at scale. I had the pleasure of attending Brendan Gregg’s Linux Profiling at Netflix talk at SCALE13x and afterwards he gave me a list of things that Netflix did to Ubuntu

Jorge O. Castro
11 August 2015


Dustin Kirkland
10 August 2015

Golden Ratio calculated to 2 trillion digits, on Ubuntu, in the Cloud

Article Cloud and server

The Golden Ratio is one of the oldest and most visible irrational numbers known to humanity.  Pi is perhaps more famous, but the Golden Ratio is found in more of our art, architecture, and culture throughout human history.I think of the Golden Rat

Dustin Kirkland
10 August 2015


Randall Ross
4 August 2015

Juju: Re-Framing the Discussion

Article Cloud and server

A while back, just before Dockercon 2015, the friendly folks behind Ubuntu, Juju, LXD, and a whole bunch of other goodness hosted a special event that was all about service modelling, orchestration, and making all the container-y Docker-y stuff work we

Randall Ross
4 August 2015


Ryan Finnie
4 August 2015

Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

It’s a topic many people don’t like to think about: backups. In addition to making sure your cloud environments are correctly deployed, highly available, secured and monitored, you need to make sure they are backed up for disaster recovery purposes. (And no, replication is not the same as backups.) Canonical’s IS team...

Ryan Finnie
4 August 2015


James Donner
3 August 2015

NFV with Juniper OpenContrail and Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver

Videos Cloud and server

 Arguably, the pressure on carriers to find new and innovative ways to develop and deliver new, sticky services has never been greater. Wannabe service providers such as Google, Amazon and Netflix, are finding ever more nimble ways to design and launch innovative new services. It’s their ability to deploy thousands of...

James Donner
3 August 2015


Canonical
3 August 2015

Juju – It’s About Building Relationships!

Article Cloud and server

I admit it, I was excited about Juju before I even fully understood it. But isn’t that part of the magic of anything called Juju? I’m new to Canonical, I’m less than a month into my tenure here. But I’m already super excited to have joined. What has me so excited? The company‘s vision, and

Canonical
3 August 2015


Jorge O. Castro
31 July 2015

Conducting Systems & Services: An Evening About Orchestration

Videos Cloud and server

Orchestration of containers is one of the hottest topics in devops. Prior to Dockercon this year we thought it would be a great idea to bring in some of the thought leaders in this area and have a discussion of the challenges that face devops today and how solving large scale problems can help drive

Jorge O. Castro
31 July 2015


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
30 July 2015

ODS Video: Making Large-scale Data Centre Deployment Easy With MAAS

Article Cloud and server

Why has cloud computing been so successful? Arguably, it’s the 70s-style pay-as-you-go model of computing that allows companies a low-cost way to build a cloud from zero. More importantly, it’s how the cloud solves the problem of quick machine deployment in fast-paced business environments – provisioning a new PC in...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
30 July 2015


Charles Butler
30 July 2015

Juju & Kubernetes: The power of components

Article Cloud and server

While dogfooding my own work, I decided it was time to upgrade my distributeddocker services into the shiny Kubernetes charms now that 1.0 landed last week.I’ve been running my own “production” (I say in air quotes, because my 20 or somicroservices

Charles Butler
30 July 2015


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
29 July 2015

ODS Video: OpenStack Interoperability Lab

Videos Cloud and server

As OpenStack cloud innovation progresses, we’re focused on finding ways to fully automate OpenStack deployment. As regular readers know, part of this goal sees us work with technology vendors across the gamut of hardware, networking and storage solutions to test, validate and guarantee their components. The aim? To...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
29 July 2015


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
29 July 2015

Big Data: Moving from Complexity to Simplicity with Juju & Azure

Videos Cloud and server

Last month, we collaborated with Microsoft to hold two events in Austin and Los Angeles to showcase the power of Juju on Azure. Juju embeds DevOps best practices to let other users play and integrate in order to commoditize access to big data architectures and help developers to work in that space. Join Canonical’s Strategic

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
29 July 2015