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Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015

by Dustin Kirkland on 12 August 2015

Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list...

How Netflix tunes Ubuntu on EC2

by Jorge O. Castro on 11 August 2015

One of the nice things about having Netflix running Ubuntu is that the community can take advantage of the lessons they learn about running services at scale....

Golden Ratio calculated to 2 trillion digits, on Ubuntu, in the Cloud

by Dustin Kirkland on 10 August 2015

The Golden Ratio is one of the oldest and most visible irrational numbers known to humanity. Pi is perhaps more famous, but the Golden Ratio is found in more...

Juju: Re-Framing the Discussion

by Randall Ross on 4 August 2015

A while back, just before Dockercon 2015, the friendly folks behind Ubuntu, Juju, LXD, and a whole bunch of other goodness hosted a special event that was all...

Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure

by Ryan Finnie on 4 August 2015

It’s a topic many people don’t like to think about: backups. In addition to making sure your cloud environments are correctly deployed, highly available,...

NFV with Juniper OpenContrail and Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver

by James Donner on 3 August 2015

Arguably, the pressure on carriers to find new and innovative ways to develop and deliver new, sticky services has never been greater. Wannabe service...

Juju – It’s About Building Relationships!

by Canonical on 3 August 2015

I admit it, I was excited about Juju before I even fully understood it. But isn’t that part of the magic of anything called Juju? I’m new to Canonical, I’m...

Conducting Systems & Services: An Evening About Orchestration

by Jorge O. Castro on 31 July 2015

Orchestration of containers is one of the hottest topics in devops. Prior to Dockercon this year we thought it would be a great idea to bring in some of the...

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

by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 30 July 2015

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...

Juju & Kubernetes: The power of components

by Charles Butler on 30 July 2015

While dogfooding my own work, I decided it was time to upgrade my distributeddocker services into the shiny Kubernetes charms now that 1.0 landed last...

ODS Video: OpenStack Interoperability Lab

by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 29 July 2015

As OpenStack cloud innovation progresses, we’re focused on finding ways to fully automate OpenStack deployment. As regular readers know, part of this goal...

Big Data: Moving from Complexity to Simplicity with Juju & Azure

by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 29 July 2015

Last month, we collaborated with Microsoft to hold two events in Austin and Los Angeles to showcase the power of Juju on Azure. Juju embeds DevOps best...