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by Jorge O. Castro on 15 December 2016

It’s been a great year for Ubuntu. More and more cloud users are turning to Ubuntu for their needs on public clouds. On the private cloud side you can find us...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Security: A Comprehensive Overview

by Dustin Kirkland on 8 December 2016

From Linux kernel livepatches to encryption to ASLR to compiler optimizations and configuration hardening, we strive to ensure that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is the...

Mounting your home directory in LXD

by Canonical on 8 December 2016

As of LXD stable 2.0.8 and feature release 2.6, LXD has support for various UID and GID map related manipulaions. A common question is: “How do I bind-mount...

Webinar: Running an enterprise-grade OpenStack without the headaches

by Tom Callway on 7 December 2016

Watch Webinar On-demand In Canonical’s latest on-demand webinar, we explore how to build and manage highly scalable OpenStack clouds with BootStack on a...

LXD 2.0: LXD and OpenStack [11/12]

by Stéphane Graber on 7 December 2016

This is the eleventh blog post in this series about LXD 2.0. Introduction First of all, sorry for the delay. It took quite a long time before I finally...

Cloud Chatter: November 2016

by James Donner on 2 December 2016

Welcome to our November edition. We begin with details on our latest partnership with Docker. Next up, we bring you a co-hosted webinar with PLUMgrid...

Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes reduces operational friction

by Canonical on 1 December 2016

Linux containers (LXC) are one of the hottest technologies in the market today. Developers are adopting containers, especially Docker, as a way to speed-up...

Taking a stand against unofficial Ubuntu images

by Canonical on 1 December 2016

Ubuntu is amazing on the cloud because we work with cloud providers to ensure crisp, consistent and secure images which you can auto-update safely. On every...

Docker and Canonical partner on CS Docker Engine for Ubuntu users

by Canonical on 30 November 2016

New commercial agreement provides integrated enterprise support and SLAs for CS Docker Engine SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, 30th November 2016 – Docker and...

Canonical and AWS partner to deliver world-class support in the cloud

by Udi Nachmany on 28 November 2016

In today’s software world, support is many times an afterthought or an expensive contract used only to keep-up with the latest patches, updates, and versions....

conjure-up Canonical Kubernetes under LXD today!

by Adam Stokes on 21 November 2016

We’ve just added the Localhost (LXD) cloud type to the list of supported cloud type on which you can deploy The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. What...

Kubernetes the easy way

by Jorge O. Castro on 17 November 2016

If you’re interested in running Kubernetes you’ve probably heard of Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes the Hard Way. Exercises like these are important, they...