Skip to main content

Blog


Canonical
11 April 2018

Ubuntu available on IBM LinuxOne Rockhopper II

Cloud and server News

IBM has announced IBM z14 model ZR1 and LinuxONE Rockhopper II, an expansion to a family of IBM Z servers which bring the benefits of z14 technology to organizations ranging from large enterprises to startups. Where IBM Z and LinuxONE were at one time available only through frames, these systems can now fit into any ...


David Britton
10 April 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 10 April 2018

Cloud and server Article

Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team ...


Stéphane Graber
10 April 2018

LXD weekly status #42

Cloud and server Article

Introduction As this was the week following our major 3.0 release, we’ve been very actively working on early bug reports and sorting out packaging for this in the distros. This led to quite a number of bugfixes being done, issues investigated and a large number of updates to our snap and Debian packages for the ...


Anthony Dillon
10 April 2018

Design and Web team summary – 10 April 2018

Cloud and server Article

MAAS squad Homepage A/B test completes The team ran an A/B test on two homepage designs. Based on Google analytics experiment data and Crazy egg scroll-map data for both A and B versions. The resulting winner was B. Which has now been made the permanent homepage. MAAS Vanilla integration teething fixes The MAAS squad have ...


Joshua Powers
9 April 2018

Ubuntu Bionic: Using chrony to configure NTP

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog   Using chrony to configure NTP Starting with Ubuntu Bionic, the choice for fast and accurate time synchronization is chrony. For the features available with chrony and how chrony compares to other time synchronization implementations check out the comparison page on the chrony site. ...


Canonical
9 April 2018

Canonical and CPLANE partner to simplify cloud management

Cloud and server Article

Recently announced, Canonical and CPLANE will now offer a distributed cloud orchestration and software-defined networking solution to simplify the complexity of managing distributed clouds. Canonical will deliver high-performance distributed cloud orchestration to its customers with CPLANE’s Multi-Site Manager (MSM). MSM delivers clouds t ...


Canonical
5 April 2018

Cloud-init v.18.2: CLI subcommands

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Chad Smith’s blog Cloud-init published its second release of 2018: version 18.2. Among many notable features in the 18.1 release and the 18.2 release, the cloud-init team has been adding some polish to our CLI tooling to make cloud-init easier to inspect and interact with. I will give a run ...


Guest
5 April 2018

The Nextcloud Box: a review of building an IoT device with snaps

Internet of Things Article

In 2016, Canonical, Nextcloud and WDLabs introduced the Nextcloud Box, the first IoT style device running with snaps out of the box. Besides sales of nearly 2K boxes before Western Digital shut down their research division WDLabs late last year, the snap been extremely popular with some days hitting over 10,000 downloads. Its installed ba ...


James Donner
4 April 2018

Git-to-k8s automation for on-prem container deployments

Cloud and server Webinar

This is the second webinar in our Kubernetes Month series! Speaker: Khash Sajadi (Cloud66) & Marco Ceppi (Canonical) Date/Time: April 11, 2018 at 12PM EST / 5PM GMT Kubernetes brings Devs and Ops close together, but that presents significant challenges for traditional CI/CD as an effective and scalable on-ramp onto clusters. A new class o ...


Joshua Powers
3 April 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 4 April 2018

Cloud and server Article

Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team ...


Stéphane Graber
3 April 2018

LXD weekly status #41

Cloud and server Article

Introduction The highlight for this week is the release of LXD, LXC and LXCFS 3.0! Those 3 releases are LTS releases and will be supported for the next 5 years. The relevant release announcements can be found here: LXD 3.0 LXC 3.0 LXCFS 3.0 We’d like to thank every one of our contributors who made ...