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Tytus Kurek
8 September 2021

KVM hypervisor: a beginners’ guide

Article Cloud and server

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the leading open source virtualisation technology for Linux. It installs natively on all Linux distributions and turns underlying physical servers into hypervisors so that they can host multiple, isolated virtual machines (VMs). KVM comes with no licenses, type-1 hypervisor...

Tytus Kurek
8 September 2021

Bill Wear
2 September 2021

Commissioning deployed machines: Request granted

Article Cloud and server

We want to make it possible to deploy MAAS in an existing datacenter, and have it keep track of machines that already have a deployed workload — without disturbing machine or workload. Currently, in order to get a machine into MAAS, with correct hardware information, you have to network boot the machine and let MAAS

Bill Wear
2 September 2021

robgibbon
30 August 2021

Cloud PaaS through the lens of open source – opinion

Article Data Systems

Opinion piece by Rob Gibbon – Product Manager at Canonical. All views expressed are the author’s own. The open source perspective viz. PaaS Open source software, as the name suggests, is developed in the open. The software can be freely inspected by anyone, and can be freely patched as required to suit the security...

robgibbon
30 August 2021

Canonical
24 August 2021

Atresmedia modernises Spain’s most popular streaming platform with Canonical Charmed Kubernetes

Article Canonical announcements

The streaming service for the leading communication group in Spain leaves behind outdated applications and adopts a microservices architecture enabled by Canonical. SPAIN, August 24, 2021— Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces that Atresmedia, the leading company in the Over-The-Top (OTT) services market in...

Canonical
24 August 2021

Bill Wear
8 July 2021

DHCP Server Conflict Detection

MAAS Cloud and server

This blog title should really be, “Why you always, always, always want conflict detection turned on on all the networks MAAS touches,” but that’s really long as a title. But hear me out. As promised, here is another DHCP blog, this time explaining how you can have multiple DHCP servers on the same subnet, serving

Bill Wear
8 July 2021

DHCP scope

MAAS Cloud and server

It’s possible to have more than one DHCP server on the same network and still have everything work right, with no conflicts and no dropped packets or IP requests. It’s really not that hard to pull together, either, but there are some things to know, and some things to consider before we investigate that situation.

Bill Wear
8 July 2021

Bill Wear
7 July 2021

Moving toward Diátaxis

Server Cloud and server

We discovered the Diátaxis Framework earlier this year. It’s been on our roadmap to shift MAAS doc to this cool new way of explaining things. This cycle, we plan to make it happen. You’d think it would be obvious…. Diátaxis is one of those ideas. Once you see it, you can’t figure out why everybody

Bill Wear
7 July 2021

Bill Wear
6 July 2021

MAAS 3.0 released

MAAS Cloud and server

We are happy to announce the release of MAAS 3.0. This release provides some new features and bug fixes. Here’s the tl;dr summary: PCI and USB devices are now modelled in MAAS PCI and USB device tabs are now available in machine details IBM Z DPM partitions are supported for MAAS and virtual machines Proxmox

Bill Wear
6 July 2021

Canonical
29 June 2021

Kubernetes & Cloud Native report 2021 by Canonical

Article Canonical announcements

Industry global survey from Canonical: 85% of enterprises have yet to cross the chasm to full Kubernetes and Cloud Native adoption.Data from 1,200 respondents and insights from seven industry experts reveal rapid growth, some growing pains Read full report London, UK, June 29, 2021 – Despite high adoption rates of cloud...

Canonical
29 June 2021

Bill Wear
17 June 2021

Basic DHCP concepts

MAAS Ubuntu

Let’s step back and take a very basic look at DHCP. In fact, let’s look at the analogy of assigning a street address to your house. Usually, this is done by the local 911 dispatch office, or some other central authority. They typically use either a survey map or a latitude, longitude pair to locate

Bill Wear
17 June 2021

Canonical
28 May 2021

How to run ECS Anywhere workloads using Ubuntu on any infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

Using Ubuntu for your ECS clusters on-prem or elsewhere will allow you to run your ECS Anywhere workloads with optimal performance everywhere you need it.

Canonical
28 May 2021

Valentin Viennot
24 May 2021

Canonical’s first DockerCon

Article Cloud and server

May 27th will be Canonical’s first time as a DockerCon sponsor. That’s exciting! Since our joint announcement back in November, the relationship between Canonical and Docker has become stronger as more projects arise. There’s still a lot to be done in a cloud-native world to make Open Source available to everyone in its...

Valentin Viennot
24 May 2021

Leia Ruffini
13 April 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 13th of April 2021

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.

Leia Ruffini
13 April 2021

anastasiavalti
1 April 2021

Kubernetes across clouds: Ubuntu at NVIDIA GTC 2021

Article Kubernetes

NVIDIA GTC is back again and we’re thrilled to be talking all things Kubernetes with you, on April 12-16! This year too, the conference will be hosted virtually and registration is free, which means even more of us can get together to share knowledge and ideas at the #1 AI conference and workshop! Ubuntu and

anastasiavalti
1 April 2021

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