Blog posts tagged
"MAAS"

131 posts

Christian Reis
20 January 2016

MAAS 1.9: Taking bare-metal beyond “minimal provisioning”

Article Cloud and server

Complex node configuration now fully supported, including NIC bonding, tagged VLANs, bcache, LVM, software RAID devices and more One of the (only somewhat unsung) heroes in the MAAS user community is Ante Karamatić. Ante is the lead of a consulting team which does complex deployments for telecom cloud providers, and...

Christian Reis
20 January 2016

Tom Haddon
10 December 2015

Using bcache for performance gains on the Launchpad Database Servers

Article Cloud and server

Launchpad is the code hosting, bug tracking and build system for the Ubuntu distribution itself, and is used by many other software projects, including OpenStack, Inkscape & MySQL. There are two main data stores in Launchpad. The first is the Librarian, which is a 22TB object store using OpenStack’s Swift as its...

Tom Haddon
10 December 2015

dimitern
8 November 2015

Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

Article Cloud and server

In the past months our Juju Core Sapphire team has been working on the design, planning, and implementation of a set of extended networking features for Juju 1.25 and the upcoming (January 2016) 1.26 releases. The main focus is enabling users of Juju to have a finer-grained control over how their services are deployed...

dimitern
8 November 2015

Canonical
23 September 2015

PC Power Control with a Raspberry Pi and MAAS

Article Cloud and server

I recently decided to setup a small cluster of computers at home to be managed by Juju and MAAS. The computers are in the attic which meant that finger based power management was going to quickly lose its appeal. Many of my friends and colleagues have enviable home computer setups, with power control being done

Canonical
23 September 2015

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
30 July 2015

ODS Video: Making Large-scale Data Centre Deployment Easy With MAAS

Article Cloud and server

Why has cloud computing been so successful? Arguably, it’s the 70s-style pay-as-you-go model of computing that allows companies a low-cost way to build a cloud from zero. More importantly, it’s how the cloud solves the problem of quick machine deployment in fast-paced business environments – provisioning a new PC in...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
30 July 2015

Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Deploying OpenStack from source to scalable multi-node environments

Article Cloud and server

The Juju OpenStack charms now have support for deploying OpenStack from source! This means that you can point the charms at the OpenStack git repositories/branches of your choice, whether they’re the well known upstream repos or your own modified repos, and deploy to your choice of substrate via Juju (to metal via MAAS,...

Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Canonical
21 May 2015

Cloudbase and Canonical partner to bring Windows Hyper-V Support

Article Cloud and server

Partners bring Windows Hyper-V support to managed OpenStack clouds Cloudbase Solutions, the developer of Windows components in OpenStack, announced today that it is partnering with Canonical to enable their customers to run KVM and Hyper-V environments side-by-side in the same managed cloud. Cloudbase Solutions believes...

Canonical
21 May 2015

Canonical
19 May 2015

The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?

Article Cloud and server

The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed and deployed. The upending of these long held tenets of Enterprise IT are happening simply due to the innovation brought on by OpenStack and a handful of other...

Canonical
19 May 2015

Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: What’s new for cloud users?

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu 15.04: OpenStack ready to roll with Kilo and first outing of Snappy Core Adds LXD, a new hypervisor with incredible density and speed First release of Snappy Ubuntu Core for cloud container hosts and smart devices OpenStack “Kilo” – Ubuntu leads with choice of SDNs, easy install and management Updated developer...

Canonical
21 April 2015

Canonical
14 April 2015

Chef and Canonical; an automation story (with a bare metal soundtrack)

News Cloud and server

Every business needs to spend fewer calories on IT management and are looking to automation and cloud-ready platforms to do so. Combining Chef’s scale and flexibility with Ubuntu’s tremendous Linux platform empowers users to easily manage everything from bare metal servers to large-scale clouds. Barry Crist, CEO, Chef...

Canonical
14 April 2015

Andreas Hasenack
10 April 2015

MAAS 1.9 network layouts for the Landscape Autopilot

Article Cloud and server

Thanks for your interest in Ubuntu OpenStack. Canonical has sunsetted OpenStack Autopilot and replaced it with conjure-up. We welcome you to visit our OpenStack product page to find an Ubuntu OpenStack solution that meets your needs.   The Ubuntu OpenStack Autopilot deploys an OpenStack cloud using Juju, MAAS and...

Andreas Hasenack
10 April 2015

Canonical
9 April 2015

FortyCloud joins Canonical’s growing Charm Partner Programme

Article Cloud and server

FortyCloud,  a pioneer in network Security ­as ­a ­Service for the cloud, is the most recent member to join Canonical’s growing charm ecosystem. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and...

Canonical
9 April 2015

Canonical
19 March 2015

Fairbanks joins Cloud Partner Program

Article Cloud and server

Dutch OpenStack experts, Fairbanks, is the latest organisation to join Canonical’s Cloud Partner Program. Fairbanks becomes another company in Canonical’s ranks of expert partners across Europe focused on reselling Canonical’s business proposition including Ubuntu Advantage, Ubuntu OpenStack, BootStack and tools like...

Canonical
19 March 2015

Canonical
10 March 2015

Making OpenStack Easy: QCT joins Ubuntu Cloud Partner Programme

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is pleased to announce the addition of QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology), a leading global datacenter solution provider, to its Ubuntu Cloud Partner Programme. This extensive partnership includes QCT hardware certification on the Ubuntu OS, participation in Canonical’s OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) and the...

Canonical
10 March 2015

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