New features in Juju 1.23

by Jorge O. Castro on 3 June 2015

A little over a month ago Juju 1.23 hit the prime time and brought with it a flurry of bug fixes and new features. Below are a highlight of the exciting new things Juju can do as of 1.23, or feel free to dig into the release notes for all the details. Support for Google […]

Cisco and Canonical Collaborate on Policy-Based OpenStack Clouds

by Canonical on 3 June 2015

Canonical is pleased that Cisco, developer of the Application Centric Infrastructure is joining the Ubuntu Cloud OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL). Cisco implements application policy as part of OpenStack Group Based Policy (GBP) and the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) – delivering application policies to impr […]

Cloudbase and Canonical partner to bring Windows Hyper-V Support

by Canonical on 21 May 2015

Partners bring Windows Hyper-V support to managed OpenStack clouds Cloudbase Solutions, the developer of Windows components in OpenStack, announced today that it is partnering with Canonical to enable their customers to run KVM and Hyper-V environments side-by-side in the same managed cloud. Cloudbase Solutions believes Windows and open s […]

Eurecom join the Charm Partner Programme

by Ellen Arnold on 21 May 2015

Charm Store now includes Galera Cluster

by Ellen Arnold on 19 May 2015

The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?

by Canonical on 19 May 2015

The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed and deployed. The upending of these long held tenets of Enterprise IT are happening simply due to the innovation brought on by OpenStack and a handful of other successful open […]

Canonical Cloud Chatter: April 2015 Newsletter

by Canonical on 12 May 2015

This April saw our new release, Ubuntu 15.04! We also have some great webinars, training courses and product announcements to tell you about and some exciting partner ecosystem news for you. Meanwhile, we’re getting ready for OpenStack Summit in Vancouver – we hope to see you all there! So dive in and enjoy! Webinar: Designing […]

Universal Modeling Language for Service-Oriented Architectures: Part 2

by Samuel Cozannet on 7 May 2015

In the first part of this two part blog we looked at why Canonical believes a new language is needed for modeling modern applications in the cloud. In this second blog we will apply these high-level concepts to build a modular and scalable sentiment analysis application with Juju, using components such as Kafka, ZooKeeper, Storm […]

Universal Modeling Language for Service-Oriented Architectures: Part 1

by Samuel Cozannet on 6 May 2015

Over the last 20 years, applications have moved from a monolithic mainframe perspective to a scale out vision. However, during this time the representation of applications hasn’t changed that much. This has led to major inefficiencies in their design. In the first part of this two part blog, I will explain why Canonical believes that […]

Neutron, 0mq and Git deployment – Ubuntu OpenStack 15.04 Charm Release

by James Page on 30 April 2015

Alongside the Ubuntu 15.04 release on the 23rd April, the Ubuntu OpenStack Engineering team delivered the latest release of the OpenStack charms for deploying and managing OpenStack on Ubuntu using Juju. Here are some selected highlights from this most recent charm release. OpenStack Kilo support As always, we’ve enabled charm support for […]

10Duke joins the Charm Partner Programme

by Canonical on 22 April 2015

Canonical is excited to announce that 10Duke, the leading European backend as a service (BaaS) provider, is the latest partner to join the Canonical Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant workload deployment, integr […]

Rewriting WordPress’ juju charms for security and HA on OpenStack

by Jacek Nykis on 22 April 2015

Canonical’s IS department is responsible for running most of the company’s external and internal services. This includes services like Landscape and Launchpad as well as 3rd party software including internal and external wikis, WordPress blogs and Django sites. All new services are deployed with Juju and Mojo onto our OpenStack clouds but […]