Blog posts tagged
"cloud"

294 posts

Tytus Kurek
1 April 2020

OpenStack distros: How to choose the right one?

Article OpenStack

Choosing the right OpenStack distribution is essential to the success of an OpenStack project at every organisation. When selecting one, organisations should always follow certain criteria. Is it possible to operate the considered OpenStack distros economically? How easy is it to deploy them? Can the organisation...

Tytus Kurek
1 April 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

Tytus Kurek
18 February 2020

OpenStack Charms 20.02 – CephFS backend for Manila and more

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.02. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. CephFS backend for Manila The OpenStack Charms 20.02 release introduces support for Ceph File System (CephFS)...

Tytus Kurek
18 February 2020

Robin Winslow
19 November 2019

Avoiding dropped connections in nginx containers with “STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT”

Article Cloud and server

(Also published on my blog at robinwinslow.uk) Update: The default used in the official nginx docker image was changed from SIGTERM to SIGQUIT in November 2020, so this should no longer be an issue for Docker or Kubernetes users. nginx is a very popular web server. It may have just become the most popular web

Robin Winslow
19 November 2019

Canonical
11 November 2019

Canonical at TechWeek Frankfurt

Article Cloud and server

Date: Nov 13-14Location: Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GermanyBooth: 957 The TechWeek Frankfurt trade show will explore solutions to technology challenges organisations face across cloud computing and security, DevOps practices, Big Data management and more. With these major infrastructure themes in mind, the Ubuntu and...

Canonical
11 November 2019

Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration in MAAS

Article Cloud and server

In this blog, we are going to explore how to leverage MAAS for hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration using tags. In many cases, certain pieces of hardware require extra kernel parameters to be set in order to make use of them. For example, when configuring GPU passthrough we will typically need to configure the GPU

Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Alex Cattle
1 July 2019

Cloud Instance Initialisation with cloud-init

Article Cloud and server

Private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud… the variety of locations, platforms and physical substrate you can start a cloud instance on is vast. Yet once you have selected an operating system which best supports your application stack, you should be able to use that operating system as an abstraction layer...

Alex Cattle
1 July 2019

Canonical
6 May 2019

Canonical announces support for Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Article Canonical announcements

May 6, 2019: Canonical today announces full support for Ubuntu on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2. “Extending enterprise support for Ubuntu from Azure to Windows workstations and servers creates a seamless operating environment for Ubuntu in the Microsoft environment,” said Stephan Fabel, Director of Product at...

Canonical
6 May 2019

Canonical
7 February 2019

Financial services businesses say multi-cloud is central to their plans for AI, containers and blockchain, 451 Research reveals

Article Cloud and server

The Canonical commissioned study found that 60% of financial services businesses bank on the benefits of multi-cloud to support emerging technologies, but significant skills gap still exists An independent report by 451 Research, ‘Multi-Cloud Fundamental to Financial Services Transformation’, found that financial...

Canonical
7 February 2019

Canonical
16 January 2019

MAAS 2.5 : Growing the ecosystem and support for KVM micro-clouds

Article Cloud and server

Our latest release makes for a very exciting point in the MAAS evolution. As datacenter (DC) infrastructure grows at unparalleled scale fueled by new applications and services such as connected autonomous cars, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) and IoT, the need for automated bare metal provisioning has never been more...

Canonical
16 January 2019

Anthony Dillon
19 December 2018

Design and Web team summary – 19 December 2018

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. Base squad This week, the bulk of our work was on improving our internal system for employee reviews, but we found time to squeeze in a few other things: We also progressed with the initial work for moving our Juju documentation into

Anthony Dillon
19 December 2018

Michael Iatrou
5 December 2018

Minimum viable Kubernetes

Article Cloud and server

The appeal of Kubernetes is universal. Application development, operations and infrastructure teams recognise diverse reasons for its immediate utility and growing potential — a testament of Kubernetes’ empathetic design. Web apps, galvanised by the 12 factor pattern as well as microservice-structured applications find...

Michael Iatrou
5 December 2018

Simon Fels
29 November 2018

Running Android in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 A1 instances

Article Cloud and server

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of their new Amazon EC2 A1 instances powered by custom AWS Graviton processors based on the Arm architecture, which brings Arm to the public cloud as a first class citizen. Arm based processors provide a number of benefits in terms of density and power-consumption...

Simon Fels
29 November 2018

Canonical
28 November 2018

Ubuntu available in new AWS Marketplace for Containers

Article Canonical announcements

The new AWS Marketplace for Containers, launched this week at AWS Re:Invent, provides another fantastic opportunity for developers across public, private and multi-cloud environments to use Ubuntu. The AWS Marketplace provides customers with a trusted selection of container software options to discover and deploy to...

Canonical
28 November 2018

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