Blog posts tagged
"Virtual Machines"

33 posts

Guest
27 July 2018

Kata Containers – now available in the Snap Store

Article Cloud and server

Guest blog by Julio Montes, Linux Software Engineer at Intel Kata Containers is now available as a Snap and to install from the Snap Store. Kata Containers is a lightweight, fast to boot, virtual machine (VM) designed to provide the speed of containers and the isolation of VMs. Inside the VMs, the processes run on

Guest
27 July 2018

Michael Iatrou
13 April 2018

On the road to lean infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

On April 24 2008, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron was released. That was a decade ago, when the modern cloud computing era was dawning: Amazon’s EC2 was still in beta, Google had just released the Google App Engine and the word “container” was dominating the plastics industry rather than IT. A lot has changed since

Michael Iatrou
13 April 2018

Canonical
5 April 2018

Cloud-init v.18.2: CLI subcommands

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Chad Smith’s blog Cloud-init published its second release of 2018: version 18.2. Among many notable features in the 18.1 release and the 18.2 release, the cloud-init team has been adding some polish to our CLI tooling to make cloud-init easier to inspect and interact with. I will give a run

Canonical
5 April 2018

Joshua Powers
2 April 2018

Using cloud-init with Multipass

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog cloud-init + Multipass Multipass is a quick and easy way to launch virtual machine instances running Ubuntu. Cloud-init is the standard for customizing cloud instances and now Multipass can also make use of cloud-init to customize an instance during launch. Below...

Joshua Powers
2 April 2018

Canonical
20 December 2017

Early experiences with PXE (net-)boot of KVM VMs on Ubuntu for s390x

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This article originally appeared on the Ubuntu On Big Iron blog This article mainly assumes that an Ubuntu Server 17.10 (artful) is installed in LPAR. Ubuntu 17.10 comes with a qemu-kvm version that is new enough to act as a KVM host that also allows to PXE netboot KVM virtual machines. Any potentially different or

Canonical
20 December 2017

Stephan Fabel
17 November 2017

Edging Closer – ODS Sydney

Article Cloud and server

Despite the fact that OpenStack’s mission statement has not fundamentally changed since the inception of the project in 2010, we have found many different interpretations of the technology through the years. One of them was that OpenStack would be an all-inclusive anything-as-a-service, in a striking parallel to the...

Stephan Fabel
17 November 2017

Canonical
18 October 2017

MAAS KVM Pods

Article Cloud and server

This is a guest post by Michael Iatrou, cloud solutions architect at Canonical OpenStack is the dominant solution in the IaaS space, fueled by the need for reliable, scalable and interoperable private cloud infrastructure to accommodate cloud native applications. Through OpenStack’s open APIs, tenants can easily deploy...

Canonical
18 October 2017

Christian Ehrhardt
5 May 2016

The new simplicity to consume DPDK

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DPDK is a fast moving project comprised of a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It utilizes polling threads, huge pages, numa locality and multi core processing to achieve low latencies and a high packet processing rate. Up until recently most guides to consume or experiment with DPDK looked like...

Christian Ehrhardt
5 May 2016

Charles Butler
22 October 2015

Charming 2.0 – Now with 100% more awesome

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Editors Note: This post is one of many in a series covering the newpatterns in charming. This first post will be information heavy andcover a walkthrough of the techonologies at play. Video content andadditional tutorials will follow.It’s been an exciting couple of months for the Juju Charmers. If you’ve beenfollowing...

Charles Butler
22 October 2015

Tom Callway
25 June 2015

It’s all about containers! ODS keynote

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It’s all about containers. All attention is turning to new and innovative variants of this cloud development technology. From LXC and Docker to our recent introduction, LXD – all signs point to an explosion in appetite for for containers, and the many benefits they bring to developers. Containers are revolutionizing the...

Tom Callway
25 June 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
11 June 2015

Mark Shuttleworth’s ODS Vancouver Keynote

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This year’s OpenStack Summit was the most successful yet; playing host to a record number of exhibitors who excited and inspired over 5,000 visiting delegates. During the course of the week, attendees were treated to a host of keynotes, breakout session and track day presentations; aimed to bring the latest news, views,...

Canonical
11 June 2015

Dustin Kirkland
11 June 2015

How many containers can you run on your machine?

Article Cloud and server

652 Linux containers running on a Laptop?  Are you kidding me???A couple of weeks ago, at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canonical released the results of some scalability testing of Linux containers (LXC) managed by LXD.Ryan Harper and James Page presented their results — some 536 Linux containers on a very modest...

Dustin Kirkland
11 June 2015

Canonical
3 June 2015

So You Want to Write a Snappy App?

Article Cloud and server

Introduction If you are anything like me, you love to write apps for Ubuntu. Like the Ubuntu phone two years ago, snappy is a bit of a green field in terms of IoT related apps. If you are like me and have a Beagle Bone and a Raspberry Pi 2 and several old netbooks and

Canonical
3 June 2015

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