Cloud and server

Ubuntu partner ecosystem growth continues

by John Dolen on 13 January 2015

Hear what our partners have to say. A primary reason for Ubuntu’s success is an active, and growing ecosystem of partners that work with us to build cloud solutions. This is no accident. We recognize the importance of partner solutions, and have worked diligently to provide programs and support to ensure that an Ubuntu based […]

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Truphone uses Juju to demo world’s first telecom solution in minutes

by Maarten Ectors on 16 December 2014

World’s first demo of live, open source telecom service runs in the cloud … and all in software Truphone‘s head of R&D together with TeleStax, Metaswitch and Canonical – have demonstrated the world’s first provisioning and operation of a cloud-based IMS core and application server for a live voting service using the Truphone network. Four […]

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Charm Workshop: Writing Charms for Restrictive Networks

by Jorge O. Castro on 8 December 2014

In an ideal world your systems can reach any internet resource for whatever they need for deployment. However the real world is different, and many production networks have proxies or other restricted network policies that make writing charms challenging. In this charm school Matt Bruzek highlights some of the methods you can use to make […]

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Charm Workshop: Your first five minutes of charming

by Jorge O. Castro on 18 November 2014

As part of the Ubuntu Online Summit, Charles Butler and the rest of the crew go over some things you might want to consider during your first five minutes of charming. […]

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Bare-metal magic at the Open Compute Summit

by Canonical on 14 November 2014

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 […]

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Gladinet join Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

by Ellen Arnold on 29 October 2014

Canonical are excited to announce Gladinet as the most recent addition to their Charm Partner Programme.  Gladinet Cloud Enterprise provides a brandable, self-hosted dropbox alternative for service providers and enterprises, with file server integration, broad mobile support and more.  Gladinet, which develops on Windows, will be one of t […]

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Introducing the Canonical Distribution of Ubuntu OpenStack

by Canonical on 28 October 2014

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 public beta. 28th Octobe […]

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Getting Started with Juju Relations

by Jorge O. Castro on 24 October 2014

Relations are a very important part of what Juju does. Automating installation is a solved problem, but the ability for Juju Charms to connect services together via relationships is one of our most powerful features. […]

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Charm Workshop: Charm Testing

by Jorge O. Castro on 18 October 2014

What is bundle tester? How to set up and run, how to write tests, and how Canonical automates the running of these tests for you. […]

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Getting Started with Juju

by Jorge O. Castro on 17 October 2014

In this session we go over what Juju is, and how to get started using it. […]

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What is Juju? (Introduction video)

by Jorge O. Castro on 17 October 2014

This is a basic introductory video explaining what Juju is and how it can help you deploy workloads to the cloud. […]