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Blog posts tagged
"Release"


Tytus Kurek
24 April 2020

Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS: stability, security and more

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (long-term support) is here with enterprise-class stability, resiliency and even better security. As an LTS release, it will be supported by Canonical until 2025. However, customers can extend security updates by an additional five years through the ESM (Extended Security Maintenance) service as part of their UA-I ...


Alex Chalkias
18 March 2020

Kubernetes 1.18 release candidate available for testing

Cloud and server Article

The latest release of Kubernetes is now available for download and experimentation, with the MicroK8s Kubernetes 1.18 release candidate. The easiest, fastest way to get the latest Kubernetes is to install MicroK8s on your machine. Just run: sudo snap install microk8s –channel=1.18/candidate –classic Or from snapcraft.io: https://snapcraft ...


Tytus Kurek
18 February 2020

OpenStack Charms 20.02 – CephFS backend for Manila and more

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.02. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. CephFS backend for Manila The OpenStack Charms 20.02 release introduces support for Ceph File System (CephFS) to be used as stora ...


Andres Rodriguez
9 July 2019

MAAS 2.6 – ESXi storage, multiple gateways, HTTP boot and more

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is happy to announce the availability of MAAS 2.6. This new release introduces a range of very exciting features and several improvements that enhances MAAS across various areas. Let’s talk about a few notable ones: Growing support for ESXi Datastores MAAS has expanded its support of ESXi by allowing administrators to create & c ...


Canonical
31 October 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 beta 3 released!

Cloud and server Article

Hello MAASters!I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.3.0 Beta 3 has now been released and it is currently available in PPA and as a snap.PPA AvailabilityFor those running Ubuntu Xenial and would like to use beta 3, please use the following PPA:ppa:maas/nextSnap AvailabilityFor those running from the snap, or would like to test the snap, pleas ...


Joshua Powers
2 October 2017

Server Team at the Ubuntu Rally in NYC

Cloud and server Article

The Ubuntu Rally occurred last week in New York City where the entirety of the Canonical Engineering teams as well as various members of the community spent time working through final plans for Artful and continued discussions for next year’s LTS release.Below are notes on a few items last week’s event:Artful Final BetaWe saw the release ...


Richard Harding
13 September 2017

Modeling infrastructure with security and flexibility in mind

Cloud and server Article

Juju allows the user to model their infrastructure in a clean and simple repeatable way. Often deployments are repeated across different clouds and regions. Sometimes it’s repeated from dev to staging to production. Regardless of the way it’s repeated, ...


rharding
15 June 2017

Juju 2.2.0 and conjure-up 2.2.0 are here!

Cloud and server Article

We are excited to announce the release of Juju 2.2.0 and conjure-up 2.2.0! This release greatly enhances memory and CPU utilisation at scale, improves the modelling of networks, and adds support for KVM containers on arm64. Additionally, there is now outline support for Oracle Compute, and vSphere clouds are now easier to deploy. conjure- ...


Canonical
13 October 2016

Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10

Canonical announcements News

Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and bare-metal provisioning Hybrid cloud operations with Juju 2.0 Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, tablet and phone UX convergence OpenStack Newton with secure bare metal performanc ...


Canonical
12 October 2016

Carleton University creates Research Cloud with Ubuntu OpenStack, IBM

Canonical announcements News

Carleton University Creates Campus Research Cloud with Ubuntu OpenStack running on IBM Power Systems Carleton Research Cloud offers rapid, self-service POWER compute resources  for faster processing of scientific inquiries Canonical’s OpenStack is available on all IBM server platforms Juju and MAAS provide bare metal deployment and operat ...


Canonical
13 July 2016

Etisalat partners with Canonical to Deploy NFV Telco Infrastructure

Cloud and server News

Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telecoms provider announced today (download PDF) that it has built and launched its first live Network Function Virtualization telco cloud in Abu Dhabi. The NFV-based telco infrastructure has been built with Quanta servers, Arista switches and Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack, a multi-vendor combination int ...


Carla Berkers
24 May 2016

Autopilot: benefits of early release

Cloud and server User Experience

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform, and Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. Over the ...