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LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD

by Stéphane Graber on 14 March 2016

This is the first blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.A few common questions about LXDWhat’s LXD?At its simplest, LXD is a daemon which provides a REST API...

Juju GUI 2.1.0 – Juju 2.0 support and improvements to model creation

by Jeff Pihach on 10 March 2016

We are excited to announce a new major release of the Juju GUI with support for Juju 2.0 (currently in beta). Juju 2.0 brings with it a ton of improvements,...

Canonical Cloud Chatter: February 2016

by James Donner on 4 March 2016

February was dominated by Mobile World Congress preparations, followed by an intense week in Barcelona. In parallel, we worked on our latest webinar, launched...

Pentaho Data Integration quickly with Juju

by Guest on 3 March 2016

Tom Barber at Meteorite explains how beneficial Juju Charms has been when migrating customer services from old, tricky servers. I promised a demo of Juju GUI...

Cognitive computing, Ubuntu and POWER8

by Ellen Arnold on 2 March 2016

Create a competitive advantage with cognitive computing, and see how IBM has brought back innovation with the OpenPOWER foundation. Last week we attended IBM...

Juju 2.0 and LXD opens a whole new dimension to developing BI apps

by Guest on 1 March 2016

I’ve been itching to write this post since I got back from Config Mgmt Camp in Gent a few weeks ago. The developers over at Canonical are gearing up to launch...

Mobile World Congress 2016, Big Event, Big Data

by Canonical on 29 February 2016

Philip McAleese talks sensor data and IoT bike lights Apparently, over 100,000 people attended Mobile World Congress 2016 this past week. I was one of them....

Deploying Juniper Contrail SDN on Ubuntu OpenStack

by Ellen Arnold on 29 February 2016

In this video, we’re going to show you just how quick and easy it is to deploy Ubuntu OpenStack and Juniper Networks Contrail Networking using Canonical’s...

Juju Charmer Summit: Juju and Docker

by Jorge O. Castro on 29 February 2016

Docker is a great tool for developers, and Ubuntu is the number one platform for deployments by a wide margin. With Juju, deploying Docker is as easy as a...

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 4 Recap

by Canonical on 26 February 2016

Software Defined LTE 5G Radio demo at the Ubuntu booth At an event the size of Mobile World Congress, the last day is filled with the hurried rush to get...

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 3 Recap

by Canonical on 25 February 2016

Ubuntu OpenStack running SDN, VNFs and virtualised customer premise equipment (vCPE) The third day of Mobile World Congress was an demonstration in what’s...

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 2 Recap

by Canonical on 24 February 2016

Day 2 of Mobile World Congress was awesome. The overarching theme of the day was again focused on NFV (Network Functions Virtualisation). But before we get to...