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Canonical
24 March 2020

Kubernetes 1.18 available from Canonical

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical today announced full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.18, with support covering Charmed Kubernetes, MicroK8s and kubeadm. Committed to releasing in tandem with upstream Kubernetes, enterprises can benefit from the latest additions to enhance their day to day operations. “Canonical’s drive is to enable...

Canonical
24 March 2020

Alex Chalkias
24 March 2020

Ceph Octopus is now available

Article Canonical announcements

Ceph upstream released the first stable version of ‘Octopus’ today, and you can test it easily on Ubuntu with automatic upgrades to the final GA release. This version adds significant multi-site replication capabilities, important for large-scale redundancy and disaster recovery. Ceph v15.2.0 Octopus packages are built...

Alex Chalkias
24 March 2020

Mark Shuttleworth
19 March 2020

Update: Canonical managed services and Ubuntu support during COVID-19 outbreak

Article Cloud and server

SUMMARY Canonical’s fully managed OpenStack, Kubernetes, Kafka, Elastic, Postgres and other open source stacks, are operating at full SLA. Ubuntu and broader open source support services are unaffected and our teams have adjusted schedules to allow for colleagues to be out sick while maintaining full coverage in the...

Mark Shuttleworth
19 March 2020

Alex Chalkias
18 March 2020

Kubernetes 1.18 release candidate available for testing

Article Cloud and server

The latest release of Kubernetes is now available for download and experimentation, with the MicroK8s Kubernetes 1.18 release candidate. The easiest, fastest way to get the latest Kubernetes is to install MicroK8s on your machine. Just run: sudo snap install microk8s –channel=1.18/candidate –classic Or from...

Alex Chalkias
18 March 2020

Alex Cattle
17 March 2020

SBI Group unlocks infrastructure automation with secure, on-premises OpenStack cloud

Case study Cloud and server

SBI BITS provides IT services and infrastructure to the SBI Group — Japan’s market leading financial services company group — which is made up of over 250 companies, and 6,000 employees. To increase time to market and meet heavy client requirements, SBI BITs was looking for alternative solutions beyond bare metal...

Alex Cattle
17 March 2020

Bill Wear
11 March 2020

MAAS controller communication

MAAS Cloud and server

Much of the functionality of MAAS is contained in controllers. There are two basic types: a region controller and a rack controller. It’s useful to pull back and take a quick look at how these controllers work and interact. This will help you get a better picture of how MAAS operates. Region controller The region

Bill Wear
11 March 2020

Alex Cattle
10 March 2020

Interana uses ESM to maintain system security while upgrading its customers to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS across public clouds

Case study Cloud and server

Interana, an analytics software provider, enables users to run advanced big data queries on raw customer data and delivers answers in seconds. Their customers include Microsoft, Comcast and Salesforce. Interana’s leading-edge platform is based on Ubuntu and deployed directly inside customers’ public cloud environments....

Alex Cattle
10 March 2020

Alex Cattle
6 March 2020

Hosted private cloud infrastructure: a cost analysis

Article Cloud and server

Private cloud infrastructure remains an essential part of every enterprise nowadays. However, due to the increasing number of workloads and data, the overhead of managing bare metal servers, virtual machines and containers can mount up. Although tools like MAAS, OpenStack and Kubernetes help to address this problem,...

Alex Cattle
6 March 2020

Alex Cattle
3 March 2020

Anbox Cloud – An introduction

Article Cloud and server

Anbox Cloud, Canonical’s recently launched platform, delivers Android at scale in the cloud. Leveraging Android as a guest operating system to virtualise mobile workloads on servers while streaming graphical output to clients, Anbox Cloud empowers innovators to create rich digital experiences on various mobile form...

Alex Cattle
3 March 2020

joemcmanus
26 February 2020

Canonical takes leadership role in security for ROS

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is committed to the future of robotics, as proven a short time ago when we joined the Technical Steering Committee of the second version of the Robot Operating System (ROS 2). We’re also dedicated to building a foundation of enterprise-grade, industry leading security practices within Ubuntu, so we’re excited...

joemcmanus
26 February 2020

Bill Wear
25 February 2020

Quick-add KVMs for MAAS

MAAS Cloud and server

When designing or testing with MAAS, it’s often handy to start with virtual machines. If you’re just on your laptop, and you want to check out a new MAAS version, or mock up some datacentre idea you’ve been considering, KVMs are often very useful. You could create pods, of course, but it’s also very simple

Bill Wear
25 February 2020

Bill Wear
19 February 2020

MAAS doc example: MGH

MAAS Cloud and server

We’re creating a cohesive example to give the MAAS documentation some built-in coherence. Have a look.

Bill Wear
19 February 2020

Bill Wear
18 February 2020

MAAS 2.7 released

MAAS Cloud and server

Following on from MAAS 2.6.2, we are happy to announce that MAAS 2.7 is now available. This release features some critical bug fixes, along with some exciting new features. CentOS 8 image support For some time, our users have been asking for the capability to deploy CentOS 8 images in MAAS. With the advent of

Bill Wear
18 February 2020

Alex Chalkias
18 February 2020

Ceph storage on Ubuntu: An overview

Article Ceph

Ceph is a compelling open-source alternative to proprietary software-defined storage solutions from traditional vendors, with a vibrant community collaborating on the technology. Ubuntu was an early supporter of Ceph and its community. That support continues today as Canonical maintains premier member status and serves...

Alex Chalkias
18 February 2020

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