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Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"


James Page
30 April 2015

Neutron, 0mq and Git deployment – Ubuntu OpenStack 15.04 Charm Release

Cloud and server Article

Alongside the Ubuntu 15.04 release on the 23rd April, the Ubuntu OpenStack Engineering team delivered the latest release of the OpenStack charms for deploying and managing OpenStack on Ubuntu using Juju. Here are some selected highlights from this most recent charm release. OpenStack Kilo support As always, we’ve enabled charm support for ...


Mark Baker
22 April 2015

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

Cloud and server Article

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 ...


Canonical
22 April 2015

Canonical and QCT partnership extends to next-generation managed cloud

Cloud and server News

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 architecture is designe ...


Jacek Nykis
22 April 2015

Rewriting WordPress’ juju charms for security and HA on OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

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 OpenStack clouds but ...


Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: What’s new for cloud users?

Cloud and server Article

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 tools for cloud ...


Tom Callway
16 April 2015

Ubuntu OpenStack Summit Vancouver presentations

Cloud and server Article

  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 server created espec ...


Canonical
15 April 2015

PLUMgrid Joins Canonical Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab

Cloud and server Article

Partnership will deliver validated interoperability with simpler and automated deployment for OpenStack clouds SUNNYVALE, Calif. and LONDON, April 15, 2015 — PLUMgrid, a leading innovator of virtual network infrastructure for OpenStack® clouds, has become an Ubuntu Cloud partner and a part of the Canonical OpenStack Interoperability Lab p ...


Canonical
14 April 2015

Zabbix charms now available

Cloud and server Article

Zabbix is the latest graduate of the Charm Partner Programme, and we are excited to welcome their charms into the Juju Charms collection. Zabbix is is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices, services and other IT resources. Zabb ...


Canonical
14 April 2015

Chef and Canonical; an automation story (with a bare metal soundtrack)

Cloud and server News

Every business needs to spend fewer calories on IT management and are looking to automation and cloud-ready platforms to do so. Combining Chef’s scale and flexibility with Ubuntu’s tremendous Linux platform empowers users to easily manage everything from bare metal servers to large-scale clouds. Barry Crist, CEO, Chef Chef and Ubuntu are ...


Andreas Hasenack
10 April 2015

MAAS 1.9 network layouts for the Landscape Autopilot

Cloud and server Article

Thanks for your interest in Ubuntu OpenStack. Canonical has sunsetted OpenStack Autopilot and replaced it with conjure-up. We welcome you to visit our OpenStack product page to find an Ubuntu OpenStack solution that meets your needs.   The Ubuntu OpenStack Autopilot deploys an OpenStack cloud using Juju, MAAS and Landscape. It requires an ...


Canonical
8 April 2015

Talligent has been Charmed!

Cloud and server Article

John Meadows, VP of Sales and Business Development at Talligent, writes about their motivations and experiences charming OpenBook. Let me start with a brief explanation of why we decided to Charm our application. Canonical is an important player in the Openstack cloud space with a leading distribution of Openstack.  Ubuntu is the most pop ...


Canonical
30 March 2015

Coho Data partners with Canonical for OpenStack Interoperability

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is pleased to welcome Coho Data, developer of the first flash-tuned scale-out storage architecture for private clouds, as an Ubuntu Cloud partner and to our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) program. Coho provides web-scale storage for the cloud generation; delivering unparalleled performance and simplified management at publ ...