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OpenStack public cloud, from Stockholm to Dubai and everywhere between

by Canonical on 24 April 2017

City Network joins the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) programme First major CPC Partner in the Nordics City Network, a leading European provider of...

Certified Ubuntu Images available on Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Service

by Canonical on 20 April 2017

Developers offered options of where to run either demanding workloads or less compute-intensive applications, in a highly available cloud environment. Running...

How we commoditised GPUs for Kubernetes

by Samuel Cozannet on 19 April 2017

[Edit 2017-04-20] A careful reader informed me (thanks for that HN user puzzle) that it is no longer required to run in privileged mode to access the GPUs in...

Unitas Global and Canonical provide fully-managed enterprise OpenStack

by Canonical on 18 April 2017

Unitas Global, the leading enterprise hybrid cloud solution provider, and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container,...

Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities

by Canonical on 13 April 2017

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...

General availability of Kubernetes 1.6 on Ubuntu

by Marco Ceppi on 12 April 2017

We are proud to release the latest Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) supporting Kubernetes version 1.6.1! Kubernetes 1.6 is a major milestone and it...

FAQs: Ensuring the ongoing security compliance of Ubuntu

by Dustin Kirkland on 11 April 2017

Canonical recently announced that the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017. Following the end-of-life of Ubuntu...

Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel

by Udi Nachmany on 5 April 2017

Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most...

Scalable, secure access to data with DBaaS on IBM LinuxONE

by Canonical on 5 April 2017

Imagine a world where developers can quickly stand-up new applications and database instances – without having to worry about limits to database growth or...

Cloud Chatter: March 2017

by James Donner on 3 April 2017

Our March edition is packed with exciting content. We begin with our recent announcement of Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance providing ongoing...

OVH joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme

by Canonical on 3 April 2017

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...

USB hotplug with LXD containers

by Stéphane Graber on 29 March 2017

USB devices in containersIt can be pretty useful to pass USB devices to a container. Be that some measurement equipment in a lab or maybe more commonly, an...