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Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 28 Jul 2017

The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. Spotlight: Developing

Webinar: How to upgrade your OpenStack cloud easily, without downtime

Live webinar It has become commonplace to see some OpenStack users choose to remain on old unsupported versions of OpenStack, forgoing new features and security updates rather than face the disruption, stress and complexity of upgrading. At Canonical we call this a StuckStack, a cloud that cannot or will not be upgraded. In this webinar

Stuck Stacks, the 7 year itch and the DevOps dilemma

  7 years in, where do we go from here? It is 7 years since OpenStack came into being. 7 short years comprised of long days and late nights bringing it all together to the point that global businesses such as Walmart, AT&T and Bloomberg are now running on OpenStack. Whilst most OpenStack implementations started

Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary – June 27, 2017

Introduction This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team.  There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the Foundations team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-devel channel on freenode.   Highlights Python 3.6 transition update

OpenStack and Containers live Q&A session

Join us for a 1 hour online session with a cloud expert OpenStack and Containers Office Hours are online Q&A sessions held on an ongoing basis. Their aim is to help community members and customers deploy, manage and scale their Ubuntu-based cloud infrastructure. What’s covered? These interactive online sessions are hosted by an expert fro

Customising MAAS installs

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 ‘golden master’ image,

PCCW Global chooses Ubuntu OpenStack and Juju

PCCW Global plans expansion to deliver enterprise, edge applications, NFV and IoT enablement to customers Integrated Canonical and CPLANE NETWORKS solution will deliver high-performance, elastic infrastructure Removes the complexity of multiple systems and OpenStack APIs streamlining service integration and leveraging existing services Pl

Consortium GARR creates countrywide Federated Canonical OpenStack

GARR, Italy’s leading research and education network consortium, manages a fully owned fibre optic network of 15,000 Km dedicated to Italian Research and Education and offers high performance connectivity and advanced services to around 4 million users and over 1,200 research institutes, universities, research hospitals, cultural institut

Canonical and NetApp collaborate to supply open cloud solutions

Canonical and NetApp collaborate to supply open cloud solutions based on Ubuntu OpenStack and NetApp storage Open Cloud Solution will help organisations build scalable and easily managed private and hybrid clouds NetApp data management and storage flash solutions integrated with Ubuntu OpenStack to supply open cloud solutions for the ente

OpenStack public cloud, from Stockholm to Dubai and everywhere between

City Network joins the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) programme First major CPC Partner in the Nordics City Network, a leading European provider of OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) today joined the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud programme. Through its public cloud service ‘City Cloud’, companies across the globe can purcha

Certified Ubuntu Images available on Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Service

Developers offered options of where to run either demanding workloads or less compute-intensive applications, in a highly available cloud environment. Running development and production on Certified Ubuntu can simplify operations and reduce engineering costs Certified Ubuntu images are now available in the Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services

Unitas Global and Canonical provide fully-managed enterprise OpenStack

Unitas Global, the leading enterprise hybrid cloud solution provider, and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container, cloud, scale out, and hyperscale computing announced they will provide a new fully managed and hosted OpenStack private cloud to enterprise clients around the world. This partnership,

Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities

Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and the leading platform for cloud and IoT operations. “The breadth and pace of open source innovation has made it the center of gravity in technology today, and the Ubuntu community

OVH joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme

Canonical and OVH announced they are engaging as partners in public cloud, VPS, bare metal and private cloud. OVH is joining the ranks of other cloud providers included in Canonical’s official programme for distribution of Ubuntu guest images, Certified Public Cloud (CPC). OVH is one of the leading and fastest-growing global cloud players

Huawei and Canonical integrate OpenStack and CloudFabric

Huawei Extends its Cooperation with Canonical with the Integration of CloudFabric Data Center Network Solution and Ubuntu Cloud Solutions Hannover, Germany, March 23, 2017 – Huawei and Canonical today announced they are expanding their cooperation in enterprise and telecom clouds to announce that they have completed the integration of Clo

Mobile World Congress 2017. One for the records – bigger and better!

Mobile World Congress was one for the record books! For starters, we blew-out last year’s number of visitors to Canonical’s Ubuntu booth. The mixture was consumer targeting businesses looking for device/mobility updates, IoT advances, and innovation around artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality. On the other hand, enterprise b