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Market Leaders EMC and Canonical Extend OpenStack Partnership

by John Zannos on 6 May 2015

Today’s cloud workloads are driving storage requirements at an exponential rate, making storage an important part of any OpenStack deployment. Clients are...

Universal Modeling Language for Service-Oriented Architectures: Part 1

by Samuel Cozannet on 6 May 2015

Over the last 20 years, applications have moved from a monolithic mainframe perspective to a scale out vision. However, during this time the representation of...

Introduction to nova-compute-lxd

by Canonical on 6 May 2015

LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the...

Live Migration in LXD

by Canonical on 6 May 2015

There has been a lot of interest on the various mailing lists as well as internally at Canonical about the state of migration in LXD, so I thought I’d write a...

Using Snappy OVA Images when you don’t have a Cloud Fabric

by Canonical on 5 May 2015

The Snappy OVA images are nothing more than the Ubuntu Snappy Cloud images that have been wrapped up in an OVA container. Snappy Cloud Images expect to be...

Ubuntu Online Summit

by Amrisha Prashar on 1 May 2015

Next week, from the 5th to 7th of May, another edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking off. Three days of sessions for developers, designers, advocates,...

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

by James Page on 30 April 2015

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...

Getting started with LXD – the container lightervisor

by Stéphane Graber on 28 April 2015

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...

DataArt’s DeviceHive platform arrives on Azure Marketplace

by Canonical on 24 April 2015

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...

Package management at scale with Landscape

by Free Ekanayaka on 22 April 2015

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...

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

by Mark Baker on 22 April 2015

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...

10Duke joins the Charm Partner Programme

by Canonical on 22 April 2015

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...