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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...

Canonical and QCT partnership extends to next-generation managed cloud

by Canonical on 22 April 2015

Bootstack now available on QCT Hardware Bundled proposition reduces cloud deployment from months to days Canonical and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) have...

Rewriting WordPress’ juju charms for security and HA on OpenStack

by Jacek Nykis on 22 April 2015

Canonical’s IS department is responsible for running most of the company’s external and internal services. This includes services like Landscape and Launchpad...

Giving developers production access without revealing secrets

by Tom Haddon on 21 April 2015

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...

Ubuntu 15.04: What’s new for cloud users?

by Canonical on 21 April 2015

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...

Why an AppScale / Canonical Partnership is Important

by Canonical on 20 April 2015

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...

Ubuntu OpenStack Summit Vancouver presentations

by Tom Callway on 16 April 2015

Please join us at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit. We’ll be giving the following presentations: Tuesday, May 19 Evil Superuser’s HOWTO: Launching instances...