Cloud and Server

OpenStack Spotlight – Alexia Emmanoulopoulou and Danny Hammo

by TaNeisha Page on 19 April 2016

In this blog series, learn about life at Canonical through the employees working on the cloud side. Alexia Emmanoulopoulou: Marketing Manager – Demand...

Mesosphere announce open source project backed by Canonical

by John Zannos on 19 April 2016

Today Mesosphere announced the open source release of the DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) Project, backed by dozens of partners including Canonical. DC/OS...

Directly interacting with the LXD API

by Stéphane Graber on 18 April 2016

The next post in the LXD series is currently blocked on a pending kernel fix, so I figured I’d do an out of series post on how to use the LXD API...

Charm 2.0 makes it even easier to publish charms

by Marco Ceppi on 16 April 2016

TL;DR There is a new package (and command) called charm that compliments the previous charm-tools package and provides a new way forward for managing charms and

Docker 1.10 with Fan Networking in Ubuntu 16.04

by Dustin Kirkland on 15 April 2016

I’m thrilled to introduce Docker 1.10.3, supported on every Ubuntu architecture, for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and announce the General Availability of Ubuntu Fan...

LXD 2.0: LXD in LXD [8/12]

by Stéphane Graber on 15 April 2016

This is the eighth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionIn the previous post I covered how to run Docker inside LXD which is a good way to get...

HOWTO: Ubuntu on Windows

by Dustin Kirkland on 14 April 2016

As announced last week, Microsoft and Canonical have worked together to bring Ubuntu’s userspace natively into Windows 10.As of today, Windows 10 Insiders can...

LXD 2.0: Docker in LXD [7/12]

by Stéphane Graber on 13 April 2016

This is the seventh blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Why run Docker inside LXDAs I briefly covered in the first post of this series, LXD’s focus is...

ScaleDB joins the Charm Partner Programme

by Ellen Arnold on 13 April 2016

Nova-LXD delivers bare-metal performance on OpenStack, while Ironic delivers NSA-as-a-Service

by Mark Shuttleworth on 13 April 2016

With the release of LXC 2.0 and LXD, we now have a pure-container hypervisor that delivers bare-metal performance with a standard Linux guest OS experience....

LXD 2.0: Remote hosts and container migration [6/12]

by Stéphane Graber on 12 April 2016

This is the sixth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Remote protocolsLXD 2.0 supports two protocols:LXD 1.0 API: That’s the REST API used between the...

Ubuntu OpenStack growth confirmed by latest OpenStack User Survey

by Canonical on 12 April 2016

The most recent OpenStack user survey has gone live. In it we see tremendous growth for Ubuntu OpenStack in production clouds. We’re super excited about the...