Cloud and Server

Nova-LXD delivers bare-metal performance on OpenStack, while Ironic delivers NSA-as-a-Service

by Mark Shuttleworth on 13 April 2016

With the release of LXC 2.0 and LXD, we now have a pure-container hypervisor that delivers bare-metal performance with a standard Linux guest OS experience....

LXD 2.0: Remote hosts and container migration [6/12]

by Stéphane Graber on 12 April 2016

This is the sixth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Remote protocolsLXD 2.0 supports two protocols:LXD 1.0 API: That’s the REST API used between the...

Ubuntu OpenStack growth confirmed by latest OpenStack User Survey

by Canonical on 12 April 2016

The most recent OpenStack user survey has gone live. In it we see tremendous growth for Ubuntu OpenStack in production clouds. We’re super excited about the...

LXD networking: lxdbr0 explained

by Canonical on 7 April 2016

Recently, LXD stopped depending on lxc, and thus moved to using its own bridge, called lxdbr0. lxdbr0 behaves significantly differently than lxcbr0: it is...

infographic: How many people use Ubuntu?

by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 7 April 2016

Discover the range of industries, people and services that are using Ubuntu right now. Netflix. Snapchat. Dropbox. Uber. Tesla…and the International space...

OpenStack Spotlight – Ryan Beisner & James Wengraf

by TaNeisha Page on 6 April 2016

This week we were able to catch up with Ryan Beisner who is an OpenStack QA Engineer. Ryan is super excited to share his experience with Canonical and his...

Canonical Cloud Chatter: March 2016

by James Donner on 5 April 2016

The focus for March has been preparing for our presence at the OpenStack Summit next month. We also announced our collaboration with Tele2 on moving their...

Infographic: OpenStack Interoperability Lab explained

by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 1 April 2016

OIL (short for OpenStack Interoperability Lab) is an integration lab by Canonical, where we repeatedly test our cloud partners’ products, in countless Ubuntu...

LXD 2.0: Image management [5/12]

by Stéphane Graber on 1 April 2016

This is the fifth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Container imagesIf you’ve used LXC before, you probably remember those LXC “templates”, basically...

Still have questions about Bash and Ubuntu on Windows?

by Dustin Kirkland on 1 April 2016

Still have questions about Ubuntu on Windows?Watch this Channel 9 session, recorded live at Build this week, hosted by Scott Hanselman, with questions...

NFLabs joins the Charm Partner Programme

by Ellen Arnold on 31 March 2016

Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers

by Dustin Kirkland on 30 March 2016

I’m in San Francisco this week, attending Microsoft’s Build developer conference, as a sponsored guest of Microsoft.That’s perhaps a bit odd for me, as I...