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All you need to know about designing, building and managing your Openstack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale‑out deployment.
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Unitas Global and Canonical provide fully-managed enterprise OpenStack
by Canonical on 18 April 2017
Unitas Global, the leading enterprise hybrid cloud solution provider, and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container,...
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Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities
by Canonical on 13 April 2017
Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and...
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General availability of Kubernetes 1.6 on Ubuntu
by Marco Ceppi on 12 April 2017
We are proud to release the latest Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) supporting Kubernetes version 1.6.1! Kubernetes 1.6 is a major milestone and it...
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FAQs: Ensuring the ongoing security compliance of Ubuntu
by Dustin Kirkland on 11 April 2017
Canonical recently announced that the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017. Following the end-of-life of Ubuntu...
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Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel
by Udi Nachmany on 5 April 2017
Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most...
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Scalable, secure access to data with DBaaS on IBM LinuxONE
by Canonical on 5 April 2017
Imagine a world where developers can quickly stand-up new applications and database instances – without having to worry about limits to database growth or...
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Cloud Chatter: March 2017
by James Donner on 3 April 2017
Our March edition is packed with exciting content. We begin with our recent announcement of Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance providing ongoing...
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OVH joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme
by Canonical on 3 April 2017
Canonical and OVH announced they are engaging as partners in public cloud, VPS, bare metal and private cloud. OVH is joining the ranks of other cloud...
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USB hotplug with LXD containers
by Stéphane Graber on 29 March 2017
USB devices in containersIt can be pretty useful to pass USB devices to a container. Be that some measurement equipment in a lab or maybe more commonly, an...
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Carrier Cloudification: What every telecom executive needs to know
by Tom Callway on 29 March 2017
New imperatives, technologies, and the emergence of the public cloud are forcing telecom service providers to rethink and validate their fundamental business...
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NVidia CUDA inside a LXD container
by Stéphane Graber on 28 March 2017
GPU inside a container LXD supports GPU passthrough but this is implemented in a very different way than what you would expect from a virtual machine. With...
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Machine learning with snaps
by Michael Hall on 28 March 2017
Late last year Amazon introduce a new EC2 image customized for Machine Learning (ML) workloads. To make things easier for data scientists and researchers,...