Blog posts tagged
"bare metal"

23 posts

Canonical
27 March 2017

Bare metal server provisioning is evolving the HPC market

Article Cloud and server

  In the early days of High Performance Computing (HPC), ‘Big Data’ was just called ‘Data’ and organizations spent millions of dollars to buy mainframes or large data processing/warehousing systems just to gain incremental improvements in the manipulation of information. Today, IT Pros and systems administrators are...

Canonical
27 March 2017

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 March 2017

Video tutorial: learn how to install MAAS

Videos Cloud and server

This short video offers step-by-step instructions on how to install MAAS (Metal as a Service) to your machine. Before you start you’ll need: One small server for MAAS and at least one server which can be managed with a BMC. It is recommended to have the MAAS server provide DHCP and DNS on a network the

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 March 2017

Jorge O. Castro
2 March 2017

Deploying Kubernetes on AWS, GCE and bare metal

Videos Cloud and server

As part of of the weekly Kubernetes Community meeting Marco Ceppi deploys a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on AWS, GCE, and bare metal. If you’re interested in bare metal Kubernetes, we invite you to join us and other contributors in the sig-onprem community. Not sure where to get started? Check out our Getting...

Jorge O. Castro
2 March 2017

Canonical
2 March 2017

Bare metal server provisioning series: the economics of automation

Article Cloud and server

This is the first in a series of blogs posts discussing the value of bare metal server provisioning and the economics it can bring to businesses. The server industry is becoming more and more automated. Robots are helping to deploy servers and clouds that are moving away from large racks of blades and hardware managed

Canonical
2 March 2017

Canonical
22 February 2017

Webinar: Get cloud-ready servers in minutes with MAAS

Webinar Cloud and server

Learn how to take full advantage of existing hardware investments by maximising hardware efficiency. This live webinar was broadcasted on Wednesday 15th Mach 2017. Watch it on-demand now. Data center operators are quickly becoming more automated and need to have the flexibility to leverage their hardware infrastructure...

Canonical
22 February 2017

Samuel Cozannet
30 January 2017

Installing a DIY bare metal GPU cluster for Kubernetes

Article Cloud and server

I don’t know if you have ever seen one of the Orange Boxes from Canonical These are really sleek machines. They contain 10 Intel NUCs, plus an 11th one for the management. They are used as a demonstration tool for big software stacks such as OpenStack, Hadoop, and, of course, Kubernetes. They are freely available

Samuel Cozannet
30 January 2017

Canonical
23 January 2017

What IT pros need to know about server provisioning

White paper Cloud and server

Big Software, IoT and Big Data are changing how organisations are architecting, deploying, and managing their infrastructure. Traditional models are being challenged and replaced by software solutions that are deployed across many environments and many servers. However, no matter what infrastructure you have, there are...

Canonical
23 January 2017

Christian Reis
8 September 2016

MAAS 2.0: high availability API-driven bare metal provisioning

Article Cloud and server

This week, the result of over a year of work by our engineering team is concluded: the final release of MAAS 2.0 is now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and additionally from our stable release PPA. If you’ve never heard of MAAS before, here’s an introductory slide deck from a recent presentation at the OCP

Christian Reis
8 September 2016

Christian Reis
20 January 2016

MAAS 1.9: Taking bare-metal beyond “minimal provisioning”

Article Cloud and server

Complex node configuration now fully supported, including NIC bonding, tagged VLANs, bcache, LVM, software RAID devices and more One of the (only somewhat unsung) heroes in the MAAS user community is Ante Karamatić. Ante is the lead of a consulting team which does complex deployments for telecom cloud providers, and...

Christian Reis
20 January 2016

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