Blog posts tagged
"containers"

202 posts


James Donner
21 December 2016

Cloud Chatter- December 2016

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to our final cloud news round-up for 2016. In this issue, you’ll find details of our upcoming OpenStack and Containers office hours sessions and you can take a look at our latest webinar exploring OpenStack clouds on hyperconverged architecture. Read how Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is our most secure distribution yet; and...

James Donner
21 December 2016


Canonical
8 December 2016

Mounting your home directory in LXD

Article Cloud and server

As of LXD stable 2.0.8 and feature release 2.6, LXD has support for various UID and GID map related manipulaions. A common question is: “How do I bind-mount my home directory into a container?” and before the answer was “well, it’s complicated but you can do it; it’s slightly less complicated if you do it

Canonical
8 December 2016


Tom Callway
7 December 2016

Webinar: Running an enterprise-grade OpenStack without the headaches

Webinar Cloud and server

Watch Webinar On-demand In Canonical’s latest on-demand webinar, we explore how to build and manage highly scalable OpenStack clouds with BootStack on a Supermicro reference architecture. Supermicro offers end-to-end green computing solutions for the data center and enterprise IT. Its solutions range from server,...

Tom Callway
7 December 2016


Stéphane Graber
7 December 2016

LXD 2.0: LXD and OpenStack [11/12]

Article Cloud and server

This is the eleventh blog post in this series about LXD 2.0. Introduction First of all, sorry for the delay. It took quite a long time before I finally managed to get all of this going. My first attempts were using devstack which ran into a number of issues that had to be resolved. Yet

Stéphane Graber
7 December 2016


Canonical
1 December 2016

Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes reduces operational friction

Article Cloud and server

Linux containers (LXC) are one of the hottest technologies in the market today. Developers are adopting containers, especially Docker, as a way to speed-up development cycles and deliver code into testing or production environments much faster than traditional methods. With the largest base of LXC, LXD, and Docker...

Canonical
1 December 2016


Canonical
30 November 2016

Docker and Canonical partner on CS Docker Engine for Ubuntu users

News Canonical announcements

New commercial agreement provides integrated enterprise support and SLAs for CS Docker Engine SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, 30th November 2016 – Docker and Canonical today announced an integrated Commercially Supported (CS) Docker Engine offering on Ubuntu, providing Canonical customers with a single path for support of the...

Canonical
30 November 2016


Adam Stokes
21 November 2016

conjure-up Canonical Kubernetes under LXD today!

Article Cloud and server

We’ve just added the Localhost (LXD) cloud type to the list of supported cloud type on which you can deploy The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. What does this mean? Just like with our OpenStack offering you can now have Kubernetes deployed and running all on a single machine. All moving parts are confined inside their

Adam Stokes
21 November 2016


Jorge O. Castro
17 November 2016

Kubernetes the easy way

Article Cloud and server

If you’re interested in running Kubernetes you’ve probably heard of Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes the Hard Way. Exercises like these are important, they highlight the coordination needed between components in modern stacks, and it highlights how far the world has come when it comes to software automation. Could you...

Jorge O. Castro
17 November 2016


Canonical
9 November 2016

Canonical launches fully managed Kubernetes and joins the CNCF

Article Canonical announcements

Having expanded the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes to include consulting, integration and fully-managed on-prem and on-cloud Kubernetes services, Canonical has joined The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). We are contributing in three key areas: Canonical’s Ubuntu leads the adoption of Linux containers....

Canonical
9 November 2016


Canonical
13 October 2016

Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10

News Canonical announcements

Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and bare-metal provisioning Hybrid cloud operations with Juju 2.0 Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, tablet and phone UX convergence OpenStack Newton with secure...

Canonical
13 October 2016


Canonical
3 October 2016

Big software has arrived

Article Cloud and server

It’s time for IT to let software do more of the work The world of business technology is under tremendous pressure and most organizations are ill-equipped to deal with the challenges and opportunities that are arising. Software as a Service, big data, cloud, scale-out, containers and microservices are not just...

Canonical
3 October 2016


Canonical
30 September 2016

Cloud Chatter: September 2016

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to our September edition. This month, We begin with Canonical introducing enterprise support for its own distribution of Kubernetes across public clouds and private infrastructure. Next up we give you a preview of what you can expect from us in Barcelona at the OpenStack Summit. We have details of our expanding...

Canonical
30 September 2016


Canonical
27 September 2016

Canonical expands enterprise container portfolio

News Canonical announcements

Canonical Expands Enterprise Container Portfolio with Commercially Supported Distribution of Kubernetes Canonical’s distribution of Kubernetes is supported, enterprise Kubernetes Support is available on public clouds, private infrastructure, bare metal Elastic solution with built in analytics for scale-out ‘process...

Canonical
27 September 2016


Canonical
30 August 2016

Canonical certifies big software solutions at Facebook’s new lab

Article Canonical announcements

Written by David Duffey, Director of Technical Partnerships for Canonical’s cloud division Today at the OCP Technology Day, Facebook announced the grand opening of its new hardware lab space in Menlo Park to validate and certify software solutions and Canonical was one of the first to test its solutions are OCP...

Canonical
30 August 2016