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Tytus Kurek
6 January 2022

OpenStack challenges 2022

Article Cloud and server

Happy New Year 2022! The fireworks are all fired, the champagne is over. It is time to get back to work. We are glad to see you here though. 2021 was a good year for OpenStack and its Ubuntu-based community. First, we all have seen Ubuntu becoming the number one operating system (OS) for OpenStack

Tytus Kurek
6 January 2022

Michael C. Jaeger
5 January 2022

Application composability – a cloud computing perspective

Article Charms

Let’s remember the time in the 2000s when companies introduced their cloud computing offerings at a large scale. New services were put into the popular IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS categories. New kinds of storage and messaging technologies were promoted. Also, novel approaches were discussed, such as designing applications for...

Michael C. Jaeger
5 January 2022

Philip Williams
22 December 2021

A look forward to storage in 2022

Article Ceph

It’s that time of year, where we start to look ahead, and think about the ongoing trends in our various industries. One thing is for certain in the storage industry: capacity demand remains high, with the industry observing continued exponential growth. Growth, growth, growth More and more data is being created every...

Philip Williams
22 December 2021

Anton Smith
14 December 2021

Bare metal Kubernetes: The 6 things you wish you knew before 2022

Article Cloud and server

2022 is right around the corner, and it’s not just time to prepare for Christmas, play video games, buy presents, or share anti-Christmas memes. It’s time to start making some predictions for bare metal Kubernetes! Take a minute and let’s think about it. Developers have advent of code so they’re busy right now. Sysadmins and

Anton Smith
14 December 2021

Hugo Huang
14 December 2021

Data Pipelines Overview

Article Cloud and server

A Data Pipeline is a series of processes that collects raw data from various sources, filters the disqualified data, transforms them into the appropriate format, moves them to the places you want to store them, analyzes them, and finally presents them to your audience. As we can see in the chart above, a data pipeline

Hugo Huang
14 December 2021

Bill Wear
13 December 2021

Linux deployment tools: MAAS 3.1 for hot metal

Article Cloud and server

Back a few months ago, we did a feature poll on our MAAS forum, and the most-requested new feature turned out to be “Recommission/rescan a machine after it has been deployed“. With the release of MAAS 3.1, we’ve added that feature, making MAAS an even better choice for linux deployment tools. Here’s a sample of

Bill Wear
13 December 2021

Bill Wear
6 December 2021

Announcing MAAS 3.1: bare metal cloud gets easier

Article Cloud and server

We are happy to announce that MAAS 3.1 has been released. Bare metal provisioning just got even easier! MAAS 3.1 brings some of the most frequently-requested features into the product. A lot of this is serendipity — or maybe you could say that it’s about like minds tracking the same problem. Either way, we’re doing

Bill Wear
6 December 2021

Hugo Huang
6 December 2021

Deploy Container on Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud

Article Cloud and server

Since I wrote Launch Ubuntu Desktop on Google Cloud last week, I kept thinking about putting Ubuntu Desktop into containers. A container is an independent unit of software packages and their dependencies so that the application on the container can run reliably in different computing environments. Docker, an open-source...

Hugo Huang
6 December 2021

Omar Ali Amin
1 December 2021

What is a managed IT service?

Article Cloud and server

How can a managed IT service help you build a business-centric IT that cuts down operational costs, improve efficiency and increase innovation.

Omar Ali Amin
1 December 2021

Canonical
29 November 2021

Canonical Achieves AWS Graviton Ready Designation

Article Cloud and server

29 November 2021: Canonical, Publisher of Ubuntu, announced today that it has achieved the AWS Graviton Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Canonical + Ubuntu Server and Anbox Cloud Appliance has demonstrated successful integration with...

Canonical
29 November 2021

Hugo Huang
29 November 2021

Launch Ubuntu Desktop on Google Cloud

Article Cloud and server

This tutorial shows you how to set up a Ubuntu Desktop on Google Cloud. If you need a graphic interface to your virtual desktop on the cloud, this tutorial will teach you how to set up a desktop environment just like what you can get on your own computer. We need four steps to set

Hugo Huang
29 November 2021

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
23 November 2021

Cloud-optimized Linux kernels – what makes Ubuntu the top OS across the clouds

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu is the platform of choice for deploying and running workloads on public clouds. No other operating system gives you better performance and consistency of experience across public clouds, including Amazon, Azure, Google, IBM and Oracle. There is a reason behind this exceptional experience. By design, Ubuntu images...

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
23 November 2021

Philip Williams
22 November 2021

Dell EMC PowerEdge and Canonical Charmed Ceph, a proven solution

Article Cloud and server

Here at Canonical, we have lots of industry partnerships where we work jointly, hand-in-hand, to produce the best possible outcomes for the open source community. From getting early access to next generation hardware to ensure Ubuntu is fully compatible when it’s released, to creating solution orientated reference...

Philip Williams
22 November 2021

Hugo Huang
22 November 2021

FIPS on Google Cloud

Article Cloud and server

In August 2016, the United States government announced a new federal source-code policy, which mandates that at least 20% of custom source code developed by or for any agency of the federal government must be released as open-source software (OSS). The memo of this policy also states that the Federal Government spends...

Hugo Huang
22 November 2021

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