Cloud and server archives
250 posts from 2015
Juju Charmer Summit: A Kickoff
By James Donner, 13 November 2015
The first ever Juju Charmer Summit was held this September in the Washington DC area. This event gathered the Juju community into one physical space to share...
Akanda joins the Charm Partner Programme
By Ellen Arnold, 12 November 2015
Canonical is excited to announce that Akanda has joined the Charm Partner Programme (CPP). Canonical’s CPP helps solution providers make best use...
Converting eth0 to br0 and getting all your LXC or LXD onto your LAN
By Jay R. Wren, 10 November 2015
Wayne has a great post on the new juju lxd work. I’ve been using it a bit and it is awesome. It is super fast and I can create and destroy environments faster...
Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju
By dimitern, 8 November 2015
In the past months our Juju Core Sapphire team has been working on the design, planning, and implementation of a set of extended networking features for Juju...
Canonical Cloud Chatter: October 2015
By James Donner, 6 November 2015
We had a very busy month, with the new release of Ubuntu 15.10 and the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. We are proud to announce that the OpenStack Foundation...
Using LXD with a file-based ZFS pool on Ubuntu Wily
By Dean Henrichsmeyer, 6 November 2015
Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) comes natively with some technology previously only available in PPAs. LXD is a container hypervisor that enables and facilitates...
LXD in the Sky with Diamonds
By Dustin Kirkland, 5 November 2015
Picture yourself containers on a server With systemd trees and spawned tty’s Somebody calls you, you answer quite quickly A world with the density so high –...
Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD
By Canonical, 5 November 2015
London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux...
ODS Tokyo: OpenStack For Everyone
By James Donner, 3 November 2015
We kicked off OpenStack Summit Tokyo’s Thursday Track Day with Mark Shuttleworth’s opening address, “OpenStack for Everyone”. You can watch it yourself below”...
Interoute accelerates enterprises’ move to the cloud – and to Ubuntu
By Udi Nachmany, 2 November 2015
A new entrant to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Global IaaS in 2015 was the UK-based Interoute with its Virtual Data Centre (VDC). Not your typical cloud giant,...
Nested containers in LXD
By Serge Hallyn, 30 October 2015
We’ve long considered nested containers an important use case in lxc. Lxd is no different in this regard. Lately there have been several questionsIf you are...
OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Three
By Canonical, 30 October 2015
Mark Shuttleworth talks about why we build tools like OpenStack, its new features and how it is evolving for everyone. Day three of the summit didn’t feature...