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Stéphane Graber
16 October 2017

LXD Weekly Status #19

Article Cloud and server

Introduction This past week, part of the team was back in New York for more planning meetings, getting the details of the next 6 months, including LXC, LXD and LXCFS 3.0 fleshed out. The rest of the team made good progress on some smaller feature work, started working on console attach for LXD, looked into

Stéphane Graber
16 October 2017


Richard Harding
16 October 2017

Think Cloud portable! Let Applications drive the Model

Article Cloud and server

In our last intro to Modeling with Juju post we didn’t pay any attention to the hardware needed to run our workloads. We ran with Juju default values for what the hardware characteristics of the cloud instances should be. Rather than define a bunch of YAML about each machine needed to run the infrastructure, Juju picks...

Richard Harding
16 October 2017


James Page
13 October 2017

OpenStack Development Summary – October 13, 2017

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to the seventh Ubuntu OpenStack development summary! This summary is intended to be a regular communication of activities and plans happening in and around Ubuntu OpenStack, covering but not limited to the distribution and deployment of OpenStack on Ubuntu. If there is something that you would like to see...

James Page
13 October 2017


Michael Iatrou
12 October 2017

Kubernetes the not so easy way

Article Cloud and server

A few years ago, the simplest method to deploy and operate Kubernetes on Ubuntu was with conjure-up. Whether the substrate is a public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) private virtualized environments (VMware) or bare metal, conjure-up will allow you to quickly install a fully functional, production-grade Kubernetes. But...

Michael Iatrou
12 October 2017


Canonical
12 October 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: October 12, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [email protected]...

Canonical
12 October 2017


Joshua Powers
12 October 2017

How to find Ubuntu Server Bugs to Fix

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu Server BugsEver wanted to help out in the development of Ubuntu Server, but did not know how? One of the best ways to get started is by working on bugs. Not only does it improve the distribution for millions of users, but also gives you an opportunity to see how the distribution is made.I am publishing this after...

Joshua Powers
12 October 2017


Joshua Powers
11 October 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 10 Oct 2017

Article Cloud and server

The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list....

Joshua Powers
11 October 2017


Canonical
11 October 2017

Kernel Team Summary- October 11, 2017

Article Cloud and server

October 04 through October 09 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~2 days away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~1 week away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A 4.13.4 based kernel is available for...

Canonical
11 October 2017


Sarah Dickinson
11 October 2017

elementary on why snaps are right for their Linux distro

Article Desktop

elementary is the company behind the elementary OS Linux distribution and the associated app store. Celebrating their tenth anniversary this year, elementary began in 2007 with their first release in 2011. They are currently on their 4th release (Loki) and are working towards their 5th (Juno) with Jupiter, Luna and...

Sarah Dickinson
11 October 2017


Tim Van Steenburgh
11 October 2017

Private Docker Registries and the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes

Article Cloud and server

This blog post refers to an earlier version of Charmed Kubernetes. For the current methods of dealing with registries, please see the official documentation. This originally appeared on Tim Van Steenburgh’s blog How do I use a private image registry with my Kubernetes cluster? How do I set up my own registry? Let’s look at

Tim Van Steenburgh
11 October 2017


Francesca Granato
10 October 2017

Designing product page templates for ubuntu.com

User Experience Ubuntu

During our user testing sessions on ubuntu.com, we often receive feedback from users about content on the site (“I can’t find this”, “I’d like more of that” or “I want to know this”). Accumulated feedback like this contributed to our decision here on the Web team to find a more standardised way of designing our

Francesca Granato
10 October 2017


Thibaut Rouffineau
9 October 2017

LXD Weekly status #18

Article Cloud and server

Weekly status for the week of the 2nd to the 8th of October 2017. Introduction After everyone got back home from New York City, we got back to work on LXD, LXC and LXCFS. On the LXD front, other than a large amount of bugfixes, we’ve made our online documentation available through Read The Docs.

Thibaut Rouffineau
9 October 2017


Marco Ceppi
6 October 2017

Kubernetes on Ubuntu VMs

Article Cloud and server

Recently /u/Elezium asked the following question on Reddit: Tools to deploy k8s on-premise on top of Ubuntu. This is a question that a lot of people have answered using a combination of MAAS/VMWare/OpenStack for on premise multi-node Kubernetes. If you’re looking for something with more than a two or three machines,...

Marco Ceppi
6 October 2017


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
5 October 2017

Webinar: 10-step plan to rollout Cloud devops

Webinar Cloud and server

Sign up for our new webinar about the 10 steps you need to take to roll-out Cloud devops. Join us to learn about the benefits of hybrid cloud and how to deal with the technical and operational pitfalls involved in migrating to native cloud.

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
5 October 2017