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Charles Butler
13 July 2015

Automate DNS with Juju

Cloud and server Article

Announcing Third Party Support for the DNS CharmTo anybody that followed the DNS charmdevelopment last year I had a lofty goal of introducing a third party pluginframework, which allows the user to specify a third party DNS server, andreconfigures ...


Charles Butler
10 July 2015

Unofficial Juju Docker Images

Cloud and server Article

Using Juju in Docker for your projectsEarly this year the juju-solutions team has been experimenting with Juju inDocker – namely for isolation, and portability reasons. The Vagrant image givesa nice isolated and rebuildable environment – however the ...


Maarten Ectors
9 July 2015

Flying mobile base stations

Internet of Things Article

Lime Microsystems builds open source hardware chips to enable any type of wireless communication, called software defined radio. Elre-robotics makes app-enabled open source drones with Snappy Ubuntu Core. Are you able to create flying mobile base stations? That is exactly what Lime did with an Erlecopter. Imagine emergency or military ad- ...


Arturo Suarez
9 July 2015

Introducing utility pricing to your Managed Private Cloud

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is proud to introduce one of the most exciting, on-demand, usage-based consumption models yet – and it’s for our managed private cloud service, BootStack. While public cloud, consumption-based pricing has changed the economics (for the better) of how companies and individuals procure compute resources, private clouds have contin ...


Canonical
8 July 2015

Learn About Landscape! ODS Keynote

Cloud and server Videos

In complex computing scenarios, creating a holistic or unified update procedure across multiple clouds and hundreds of separate machines feels like an impossible task. And what do you want to do when your systems estate reaches the thousands, is it possible to automate and simplify cloud management so that thousands of systems can be mana ...


Canonical
7 July 2015

Ubuntu to ship on Lenovo laptops in India

Desktop Article

Lenovo to start shipping Ubuntu preloaded laptops in India starting with the Thinkpad L450 This marks the first joint launch for Canonical and Lenovo in India; building on the strong momentum Ubuntu has already achieved in the region Devices to be largely sold through selected commercial resellers/distributors across India Lenovo will be ...


Jorge O. Castro
6 July 2015

Juju at Dockercon 2015

Cloud and server Article

Canonical sent three Juju Ecosystem developers and one Juju core developer to Dockercon 2015 in San Francisco during which we participated in a multi-company hackathon team; threw a marketing event featuring industry luminaries; and made connections with many potential charm authors and partners. We learned loads, preached a lot of good J ...


Canonical
1 July 2015

Incubio joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to announce that Incubio, one of the top three Big Data incubators in the world, has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make the best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling on ...


Artur Tyloch
1 July 2015

Juju for Telcos and Service Providers Pt. 1

Cloud and server Article

I joined Canonical a year ago to work with the telco ecosystem – Network Operators, Communication Equipment Providers and innovative new players and startups interested in expanding or building their presence in the telco domain. During this year we have worked on many projects focused on the deployment of Virtual Network Functions in clo ...


Canonical
30 June 2015

Publishing LXD images

Cloud and server Article

While some work remains to be done for ‘lxc publish’, the current support is sufficient to show a full cycle of image workload with lxd.Ubuntu wily comes with systemd by default. Sometimes you might need a wily container with upstart. And to repeatedly reproduce some tests on wily with upstart, you might want to create a container image ...


Tom Callway
25 June 2015

It’s all about containers! ODS keynote

Cloud and server Videos

It’s all about containers. All attention is turning to new and innovative variants of this cloud development technology. From LXC and Docker to our recent introduction, LXD – all signs point to an explosion in appetite for for containers, and the many benefits they bring to developers. Containers are revolutionizing the way the enterprise ...