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Adam Stokes
9 June 2016

What’s the easiest way to start using big software? Meet Conjure-up

Cloud and server Article

Have a big software project you want to get in front of users with the least amount of barriers? Maybe it has a lot of dependencies, target runtimes, and/or micro-service type relationships. Don’t feel like writing a book’s worth of install and configuration documentation? Wish you could just tell folks to just conjure-up your project? ...

Stéphane Graber
8 June 2016

LXD 2.0: LXD and Juju [10/12]

Cloud and server Article

Juju is Canonical’s service modeling and deployment tool. It supports a very wide range of cloud providers to make it easy for you to deploy any service you want on any cloud you want.On top of that, Juju 2.0 also includes support for LXD, both for local deployments, ideal for development and as a way to co-locate services on a cloud inst ...

Jorge O. Castro
7 June 2016

Apache Bigtop and Juju: a charming approach to big data

Cloud and server Article

Juju users have been enjoying our collection of Big Data charms for over two years. During this time, we’ve learned a lot about what our users want from this complex corner of big software. The Apache Bigtop community distills best practices for installing big data software. They extensively test and package Apache big data projects ...

Canonical
6 June 2016

Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations

Cloud and server News

Vendors delivering SAAS experience on-premises with Juju charms Charms encapsulate deployment, integration, management, support, operations Reusable charms greatly reduce the operations cost of big software Centres of gravity around big data, machine learning and container management Rapid growth in use of Juju for OpenStack operations   ...

Tom Haddon
6 June 2016

Scaling out ubuntu.com for 16.04 release

Ubuntu Article

On release day for Ubuntu, the amount of traffic to ubuntu.com increases significantly. Comparing the amount of hits the website received on release day for 16.04 in comparison to the same day the previous week, we saw the number of requests grow by 209% over the 24 hour period. Looking at a particular hour around ...

Amrisha Prashar
1 June 2016

Over-The-Air 11: We’ve gone wireless!

Desktop Article

We’re pretty excited about this OTA! We’ve introduced wireless capabilities to the Meizu Pro 5, which gives users the full Ubuntu PC experience running from a smartphone. All the services running from the phone are available on desktop through just a wireless dongle and no cables – giving you the full Ubuntu convergence experience! And ...

Jamie Bennett
1 June 2016

Apps to Snaps

Internet of Things Article

Distributing applications on Linux is not always easy. You have different packaging formats, base systems, available libraries, and distribution release cadences all of which contribute to the headache. But now we have something much simpler: Snaps. Snaps are a new way for developers to package their applications, bringing with it many ad ...

Amrisha Prashar
1 June 2016

Still and rigid or adaptable? Tell us about your app

Internet of Things Article

Competition time! Calling all developers – how well does your app converge across devices? We have a new competition to inspire you in making your app convergent. With our SDK AdaptivePageLayout component we’ve made it easy for you to write apps with one code base that can run across devices. Beautifully convergent apps across Phone, ...

Inayaili de León Persson
1 June 2016

May’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team over the last month: MyData 2016 Conference Next-level collaboration: the future of content and design Collection of popular UX flows Microsoft’s hover gestures for Windows phones are magnificent What Happened to Google Maps? Surprising Changes to Google Maps’s Cartography 7 Things Every D ...

Thibaut Rouffineau
31 May 2016

Snaps on NAS: IOT apps for your private network

Desktop Article

QNAP selects snaps and Ubuntu to bring IOT apps to its NAS On Friday QNAP announced that they were adopting snaps as the application format of choice for their NAS going forward. Behind this decision are two factors, the ease of development of snaps and the universality of snaps, especially to create IoT applications. NAS ...

Guest
31 May 2016

Building a nervous system for OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

Big Software is a new class of software composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot design, deploy or operate them. OpenStack, Hadoop and container-based architectures are all byproducts of Big Software. The only way to address the complexity is with automatic, AI-powered analytics. Summary Canonical and Skymind a ...

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