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"cloud"

Alex Cattle
6 March 2020

Hosted private cloud infrastructure: a cost analysis

Cloud and server Article

Private cloud infrastructure remains an essential part of every enterprise nowadays. However, due to the increasing number of workloads and data, the overhead of managing bare metal servers, virtual machines and containers can mount up. Although tools like MAAS, OpenStack and Kubernetes help to address this problem, upskilling operations ...

Tytus Kurek
18 February 2020

OpenStack Charms 20.02 – CephFS backend for Manila and more

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.02. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. CephFS backend for Manila The OpenStack Charms 20.02 release introduces support for Ceph File System (CephFS) to be used as stora ...

Robin Winslow
19 November 2019

Avoiding dropped connections in nginx containers with “STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT”

Cloud and server Article

(Also published on my blog at robinwinslow.uk) Update: The default used in the official nginx docker image was changed from SIGTERM to SIGQUIT in November 2020, so this should no longer be an issue for Docker or Kubernetes users. nginx is a very popular web server. It may have just become the most popular web ...

Canonical
11 November 2019

Canonical at TechWeek Frankfurt

Cloud and server Article

Date: Nov 13-14Location: Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GermanyBooth: 957 The TechWeek Frankfurt trade show will explore solutions to technology challenges organisations face across cloud computing and security, DevOps practices, Big Data management and more. With these major infrastructure themes in mind, the Ubuntu and Canonical team is ho ...

Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration in MAAS

Cloud and server Article

In this blog, we are going to explore how to leverage MAAS for hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration using tags. In many cases, certain pieces of hardware require extra kernel parameters to be set in order to make use of them. For example, when configuring GPU passthrough we will typically need to configure the GPU ...

Alex Cattle
1 July 2019

Cloud Instance Initialisation with cloud-init

Cloud and server Article

Private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud… the variety of locations, platforms and physical substrate you can start a cloud instance on is vast. Yet once you have selected an operating system which best supports your application stack, you should be able to use that operating system as an abstraction layer between different c ...

Canonical
6 May 2019

Canonical announces support for Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Canonical announcements Article

May 6, 2019: Canonical today announces full support for Ubuntu on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2. “Extending enterprise support for Ubuntu from Azure to Windows workstations and servers creates a seamless operating environment for Ubuntu in the Microsoft environment,” said Stephan Fabel, Director of Product at Canonical. “Collabo ...

Canonical
7 February 2019

Financial services businesses say multi-cloud is central to their plans for AI, containers and blockchain, 451 Research reveals

Cloud and server Article

The Canonical commissioned study found that 60% of financial services businesses bank on the benefits of multi-cloud to support emerging technologies, but significant skills gap still exists An independent report by 451 Research, ‘Multi-Cloud Fundamental to Financial Services Transformation’, found that financial services businesses are l ...

Canonical
16 January 2019

MAAS 2.5 : Growing the ecosystem and support for KVM micro-clouds

Cloud and server Article

Our latest release makes for a very exciting point in the MAAS evolution. As datacenter (DC) infrastructure grows at unparalleled scale fueled by new applications and services such as connected autonomous cars, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) and IoT, the need for automated bare metal provisioning has never been more important. Multi-ac ...

Anthony Dillon
19 December 2018

Design and Web team summary – 19 December 2018

Cloud and server Article

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. Base squad This week, the bulk of our work was on improving our internal system for employee reviews, but we found time to squeeze in a few other things: We also progressed with the initial work for moving our Juju documentation into ...

Michael Iatrou
5 December 2018

Minimum viable Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

The appeal of Kubernetes is universal. Application development, operations and infrastructure teams recognise diverse reasons for its immediate utility and growing potential — a testament of Kubernetes’ empathetic design. Web apps, galvanised by the 12 factor pattern as well as microservice-structured applications find a native habitat in ...

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