Blog posts tagged
"cloud"

294 posts


Holly Hall
23 March 2021

What is cloud native?

Article Cloud and server

The term cloud native is widely used when thinking about computing and software development, encompassing a wide range of concepts that are regularly used in technology. Let’s break it down and take a closer look – what does cloud native really mean? What you need to know As a concept, cloud native is a set

Holly Hall
23 March 2021


Joshua Powers
18 February 2021

Ubuntu EKS Platform Images for k8s 1.19

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Cody Shepherd’s blog. 1.19 Platform Images Now Live Following the GA of Kubernetes 1.19 support in AWS, EKS-optimized Ubuntu images for 1.19 node groups have been released. The ami-id of this image for each region can be found on the official site for Ubuntu EKS images. Like the 1.18...

Joshua Powers
18 February 2021


Tytus Kurek
12 February 2021

OpenStack Ironic, Cinder volume replication and Glance multi-store – OpenStack Charms 21.01

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 21.01. This new release includes: a tech-preview version of OpenStack Ironic operators (charms), Cinder volume replication and Glance multi-store support for Charmed OpenStack. OpenStack Ironic The latest version of OpenStack Charms brings initial...

Tytus Kurek
12 February 2021


Tytus Kurek
8 February 2021

Hybrid cloud – everything you need to know

Article Cloud and server

Hybrid cloud allows businesses to optimise their costs associated with cloud infrastructure maintenance. It also brings many other benefits, such as business continuity, compliance, better scalability and improved agility. According to the Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management, Q4 2020, hybrid cloud is an essential...

Tytus Kurek
8 February 2021


Canonical
13 January 2021

Telefonica Brazil selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack for industry-leading cloud-based online charging system

Article Canonical announcements

13th January 2021 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack has been selected by Telefonica Brazil to – in a first for the region – migrate its online charging system (OCS) to its private cloud, Unica Next. The transformation project will see eight private clouds built on Charmed...

Canonical
13 January 2021


Bill Wear
6 January 2021

Improving CLI output with jq

MAAS Cloud and server

Welcome back to our series on MAAS CLI operations. In our previous post, we learned how to acquire and deploy machines using the MAAS CLI. It was also evident that the JSON output from the allocate and deploy commands was very lengthy for even one machine — so you can imagine how large a list

Bill Wear
6 January 2021


Bill Wear
10 December 2020

MAAS 2.9 is now available

MAAS Ubuntu

Canonical is happy to announce that MAAS 2.9 is now available. We’ll get to the details of installing it in just a moment, but first, let’s walk through a brief overview of the new features and fixes. Later on in this post, we’ll cover some of these features in much more detail. New features &

Bill Wear
10 December 2020


Bill Wear
8 December 2020

MAAS CLI-only machine deployment

MAAS Ubuntu

Continuing in our series on CLI-only MAAS operation, it’s time to deploy machines. In the previous post, we reached the point of creating and commissioning machines, using only the MAAS CLI. Moving forward, there are two key steps: acquiring machines, and then deploying them. Let’s take a look Acquiring a machine using...

Bill Wear
8 December 2020


Tytus Kurek
7 December 2020

SUSE OpenStack Cloud reaches the end of life

Article Cloud and server

Time passes by! A year has passed since SUSE announced its decision to discontinue SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and many enterprises are already affected. This is because SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 reaches the end of life (EOL) in late May 2021. There are 6 months left to solve this problem. So it is time to think

Tytus Kurek
7 December 2020


Bill Wear
2 December 2020

MAAS CLI-only machine creation

MAAS Cloud and server

The whole point of MAAS configuration is to get machines deployed. If you read the previous post in this series, you know how to install MAAS and do basic configuration using only the MAAS Command-Line Interface (CLI).  So far, so good, but now we need to enable networking and create some machines. Enabling DHCP The

Bill Wear
2 December 2020


Bill Wear
30 November 2020

CLI-only MAAS operation

MAAS Cloud and server

MAAS provides a state-of-the-art User Interface (UI), which is relatively simple to use, if the required inputs are known and understood. You may be less familiar with the MAAS Command Line Interface (CLI), which is actually more robust, providing additional functionality that’s not accessible via the web UI. In this...

Bill Wear
30 November 2020


sidfaber
23 November 2020

Exploring ROS 2 Kubernetes configurations

Article Cloud and server

Kubernetes and robotics make a great match. However, as we have seen, robots running ROS 2 can be tricky to set up on Kubernetes. This blog series has explored running ROS 2 on Kubernetes, set up a simple talker and listener, and distributed that demo across three machines. The configurations presented may not quite fit

sidfaber
23 November 2020


sidfaber
17 November 2020

Distribute ROS 2 across machines with MicroK8s

Article Cloud and server

Introduction Our simple ROS 2 talker and listener setup runs well on a single Kubernetes node, now let’s distribute it out across multiple computers. This article builds upon our simple ROS 2 talker / listener setup by running it on multiple K8s nodes. At the completion of this setup expect to have a ROS2 Kubernetes

sidfaber
17 November 2020


Andreea Munteanu
16 November 2020

Mark Shuttleworth on overcoming software complexity

Article Cloud and server

While today we see an enormous amount of incredible software being published, both by tech giants and niche providers, there is a significant lag in the telco industry’s ability to leverage it.  The promise of a software-defined technology landscape is, of course, agility.  But what is the main factor preventing...

Andreea Munteanu
16 November 2020