MAAS | Ubuntu

Jorge O. Castro
28 January 2015

Datacentres in Containers, and Containers in Datacentres

Case study Cloud and server

From months to one week: How IIJ is shipping OpenStack Clouds quicker with MAAS and Juju Technologies that enable companies to move quickly in the cloud are continuing to gain traction. When we heard that the Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) were using OpenStack, MAAS, and Juju to develop quick-to-deploy entire...

Jorge O. Castro
28 January 2015

Canonical
20 November 2014

MAAS 1.7: one MAAS, multiple operating systems

Article Cloud and server

A few weeks ago, we released Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for servers and cloud, which included a beta version of Metal-As-A-Service (MAAS) 1.7. Today, we are delighted to release this version for general availability. The flagship new feature is that MAAS is now able to provision all major server operating systems. Together with...

Canonical
20 November 2014

Canonical
14 November 2014

Bare-metal magic at the Open Compute Summit

Videos Cloud and server

In the week before the OpenStack Summit, Mark Shuttleworth was a keynote speaker at the Open Compute Summit (OCP) in Paris. Mark gave an overview of the evolution of bare-metal systems, especially in the context of scale-out workloads. The highlight of the speech however, were the live demos he gave. The first demo was a

Canonical
14 November 2014

Canonical
28 October 2014

Introducing the Canonical Distribution of Ubuntu OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

The Canonical Distribution of Ubuntu OpenStack is the easiest way to create reference OpenStack clouds in minutes with full management, monitoring and scaling Will provide automated upgrades from today’s OpenStack Juno to future releases Freely available for small clouds, commercially supported by Canonical Now in...

Canonical
28 October 2014

Canonical
9 October 2014

Ubuntu OpenStack reference implementation

Article Cloud and server

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform. Ubuntu is the reference operating system for the OpenStack project, which is why deploying OpenStack with Ubuntu is the best way to ensure a straightforward implementation. Ubuntu OpenStack contains all the current integrated OpenStack projects and some additional...

Canonical
9 October 2014

Maarten Ectors
3 September 2014

Instant Big Data and other solutions

Article Cloud and server

For each new technology that becomes trendy you can buy a book with an animal on the cover. The first chapters will guide you through installing, integrating and scaling the new technology. This was fine when software was just a couple of apt-gets away. With horizontally scalable solutions, micro-services, containers,...

Maarten Ectors
3 September 2014

John Dolen
13 August 2014

Cloud Magic – See the Juju Demo on IBM POWER8

Article Cloud and server

IBM recently posted “Cloud Magic! Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems with POWER8”, a video clip of the very first live demo of Ubuntu on POWER8 (with Little Endian mode). Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, provided this demo alongside IBM’s Doug Balog, General Manager, IBM Power Systems, during a keynote at...

John Dolen
13 August 2014

Canonical
4 July 2014

Ubuntu highlighted in IBM Systems Magazine

Article Cloud and server

IBM Systems Magazine caught up with us recently, for a discussion regarding Linux on Power – today, and heading into the future. As you may have seen from recent blogs and announcements, IBM and Canonical announced Ubuntu support for IBM’s POWER8 platform in April. This became available immediately upon POWER8...

Canonical
4 July 2014

John Zannos
1 July 2014

HP Publishes OpenStack on Ubuntu Reference Architecture

Article Cloud and server

Just in time for the recent HP Discover event, engineers from HP and Canonical published a technical white paper titled: HP Reference Architecture for OpenStack on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This white paper provides the information HP clients need to start planning cloud deployments using OpenStack on Ubuntu with HP servers....

John Zannos
1 July 2014

Canonical
13 June 2014

Ubuntu and POWER8: the best of both worlds

Article Cloud and server

Last month at IBM Impact we were privileged to showcase the work we’ve been doing to bring Ubuntu to the new POWER8 platform. The wait is finally over, and IBM POWER machines are now available to the general public. So what does this mean for Ubuntu users? First of all, the same exact qualities you

Canonical
13 June 2014

Canonical
2 June 2014

Deploying OpenStack all day long: The maths behind the magic.

Article Cloud and server

Reflecting on my team’s experience at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, it was a lot of fun and truly inspiring. Once again Canonical’s presence at the OpenStack Summit was driven by doing things “for real”. Whether it’s in Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote, where he deployed multiple OpenStack clouds on multiple platforms, or...

Canonical
2 June 2014

Canonical
21 May 2014

Ubuntu Cloud documentation – 14.04 LTS

Article Cloud and server

This article is out of date. Please visit ubuntu.com/autopilot for up-to-date instructions on installing OpenStack. Deploying production grade OpenStack with MAAS, Juju and Landscape This documentation has been created to describe best practice in deploying a production grade installation of OpenStack using current...

Canonical
21 May 2014

Dustin Kirkland
20 May 2014

Cloudbase Solutions partnership

News Cloud and server

We are happy to announce a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions for bringing Windows support in Juju and MaaS. During the keynote of the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta we presented OpenStack integration with Hyper-V as well as Active Directory, SQL Server and SharePoint Juju charms, providing a clear idea of the huge...

Dustin Kirkland
20 May 2014

Dustin Kirkland
13 May 2014

Ubuntu announcements from the Atlanta OpenStack Summit

Article Cloud and server

Atlanta, Tuesday May 13th 2014 Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, made several announcements on stage at the OpenStack Summit today. The themes of the Summit so far have been set by the SuperUsers – users of OpenStack who have been helping shape the development of OpenStack to ensure it better meets the needs

Dustin Kirkland
13 May 2014

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