Blog posts tagged
"MAAS"

131 posts


Canonical
5 October 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 beta 1 released

Article Canonical announcements

MAAS 2.3.0 (beta1)New Features & ImprovementsHardware TestingMAAS 2.3 beta overhauls and improves the visibility of hardware test results and information. This includes various changes across MAAS:Machine Listing pageSurface progress and failures of hardware tests, actively showing when a test is pending, running,...

Canonical
5 October 2017


Canonical
23 August 2017

Canonical expands enterprise Kubernetes

News Canonical announcements

Canonical supports enterprise Kubernetes on cloud and on-premises Two turnkey consulting packages for rapid deployment Support for Galactic Fog serverless, Rancher container management and Weave Cloud Reference architectures for Kubernetes operations on cloud or bare-metal LONDON, U.K, Aug 23rd, 2017, Canonical today...

Canonical
23 August 2017


Mark Baker
18 July 2017

How modelling helps you avoid getting a stuck OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Lego model of an Airbus A380-800. Airbus run OpenStack A “StuckStack” is a deployment of OpenStack that usually, for technical but sometimes business reasons, is unable to be upgraded without significant disruption, time and expense. In the last post on this topic we discussed how many of these clouds became stuck and...

Mark Baker
18 July 2017


Canonical
2 June 2017

Customising MAAS installs

Article Cloud and server

by Matt Jarvis, Consulting Architect at Canonical Canonical’s MAAS is a bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management system. In this post, we’ll look at customising installs provisioned by MAAS to enable site specific configuration. Historically, the paradigm for bare metal machine installation has been to use a...

Canonical
2 June 2017


James Donner
3 April 2017

Cloud Chatter: March 2017

Article Cloud and server

Our March edition is packed with exciting content. We begin with our recent announcement of Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance providing ongoing security updates for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS at least another year. Download our latest ‘Carrier Cloudification’ eBook, or join our upcoming webinars on OpenStack, Containers,...

James Donner
3 April 2017


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


James Donner
3 March 2017

Cloud Chatter: February 2017

Article Cloud and server

Our February edition is packed with great content! We kick off with explaining why software-defined everything matters and give you a recap of Mobile World Congress. Download our latest whitepaper on containers, or join our upcoming webinars on OpenStack, Containers and MAAS. We’ve also included a fantastic host of...

James Donner
3 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


Jorge O. Castro
15 February 2017

Deploying Kubernetes on bare metal

Videos Cloud and server

Fast forward to 6 minutes, 42 seconds to begin the demo. In this demo Marco Ceppi deploys a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on 10 nodes. If you’re interested in bare metal Kubernetes, we invite you to join us and other contributors in the sig-onprem community. Not sure how to get started? Join us in our

Jorge O. Castro
15 February 2017


James Donner
3 February 2017

Cloud Chatter: January 2017

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to the first edition of 2017. In this issue we showcase what you can expect from us and invite you to meet with us at Mobile World Congress if you’re planning to be in Barcelona. We share our latest eBook on server provisioning and what Network Admins and IT Pros need to know to

James Donner
3 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