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Stéphane Graber
28 April 2015

Getting started with LXD – the container lightervisor

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Introduction For the past 6 months, Serge Hallyn, Tycho Andersen, Chuck Short, Ryan Harper and myself have been very busy working on a new container project called LXD. Ubuntu 15.04, due to be released this Thursday, will contain LXD 0.7 in its repository. This is still the early days and while we’re confident LXD 0.7

Stéphane Graber
28 April 2015

Canonical
24 April 2015

DataArt’s DeviceHive platform arrives on Azure Marketplace

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The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) enables businesses to predict when industrial equipment is going to fail, so that action can be taken beforehand. A leader in this space, DataArt, developed one of the first IoT and big data open sourced platforms, DeviceHive, and published on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace....

Canonical
24 April 2015

Free Ekanayaka
22 April 2015

Package management at scale with Landscape

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This post describes the design and implementation of a micro-service written in Go that has made it possible to massively scale Landscape’s package management features, supporting package-related queries across tens of thousands of registered systems. The feature The package management section in the Landscape web UI...

Free Ekanayaka
22 April 2015

Mark Baker
22 April 2015

Here comes Kilo and 15.04! Containers will never be the same again!

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Today Ubuntu 15.04, codenamed Vivid Vervet, is released with a host of new features for clouds and servers. 15.04 comes a full year since the last Long Term Support (LTS) release and a year before the next LTS so represents a milestone in which we bring in and start to settle down features we want

Mark Baker
22 April 2015

Canonical
22 April 2015

10Duke joins the Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to announce that 10Duke, the leading European backend as a service (BaaS) provider, is the latest partner to join the Canonical Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant workload...

Canonical
22 April 2015

Canonical and QCT partnership extends to next-generation managed cloud

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Bootstack now available on QCT Hardware Bundled proposition reduces cloud deployment from months to days Canonical and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) have extended their collaboration by bundling the most innovative managed cloud services, based on Ubuntu reference architecture on QCT hardware. Canonical’s reference...

Canonical
22 April 2015

Jacek Nykis
22 April 2015

Rewriting WordPress’ juju charms for security and HA on OpenStack

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Canonical’s IS department is responsible for running most of the company’s external and internal services. This includes services like Landscape and Launchpad as well as 3rd party software including internal and external wikis, WordPress blogs and Django sites. All new services are deployed with Juju and Mojo onto our...

Jacek Nykis
22 April 2015

Tom Haddon
21 April 2015

Giving developers production access without revealing secrets

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It’s a classic trade off in the devops world: On the one hand you want to give developers access to production systems so that they can see how their services are running and help debug problems that only occur in production. On the other hand, these are production services. As such they necessarily have access

Tom Haddon
21 April 2015

Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: What’s new for cloud users?

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Ubuntu 15.04: OpenStack ready to roll with Kilo and first outing of Snappy Core Adds LXD, a new hypervisor with incredible density and speed First release of Snappy Ubuntu Core for cloud container hosts and smart devices OpenStack “Kilo” – Ubuntu leads with choice of SDNs, easy install and management Updated developer...

Canonical
21 April 2015

Canonical
20 April 2015

Why an AppScale / Canonical Partnership is Important

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It’s exciting to be partnering with Canonical / Ubuntu again as a member of their Charm Partner Program. This partnership is more than a simple “logo exchange.” AppScale and Canonical engineers worked closely to create a production-ready Charm that would offer users a full cloud stack (OS through aPaaS) at the click of...

Canonical
20 April 2015

Tom Callway
16 April 2015

Ubuntu OpenStack Summit Vancouver presentations

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Please join us at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit. We’ll be giving the following presentations: Tuesday, May 19 Evil Superuser’s HOWTO: Launching instances to do your bidding 11:15am You click ‘run’ on the OpenStack dashboard, or launch a new instance via the api. Some provisioning magic happens and soon you’ve got a...

Tom Callway
16 April 2015

Udi Nachmany
16 April 2015

Using Snappy Ubuntu Core on Certified Public Clouds

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In December we announced Snappy Ubuntu Core for the public cloud, and its availability in beta on Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, as well as Vagrant. Snappy is the smallest, leanest Ubuntu ever, perfect for ultra-dense computing in cloud container farms, Docker app deployments or...

Udi Nachmany
16 April 2015

Charles Butler
16 April 2015

Expediting local isolation with Docker and Juju

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As a Juju charmer, I often find myself irate at the level of dependencies I’m installing on my workstation just to review OPC (Other Peoples Code). Though there are usually systems to isolate these dependencies like virtualenv and tools of this nature – nothing really beats having your own isolated system to catch all these

Charles Butler
16 April 2015

Nick Moffitt
15 April 2015

Using the Services Framework to Implement Your Charm’s Intent

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When we design our charms, we typically know the sources of information we have in mind (configuration settings, relation data, etc.), and the actions we want the charm to take based on them. As charm complexity grows, we tend to illustrate the resulting state machine’s conditions and actions as a directed graph,...

Nick Moffitt
15 April 2015

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