MAAS
Canonical announcements
Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10
by Canonical on 13 October 2016
Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and...
Canonical announcements
Carleton University creates Research Cloud with Ubuntu OpenStack, IBM
by Canonical on 12 October 2016
Carleton University Creates Campus Research Cloud with Ubuntu OpenStack running on IBM Power Systems Carleton Research Cloud offers rapid, self-service POWER...
Cloud and server
Cloud Chatter: September 2016
by Canonical on 30 September 2016
Welcome to our September edition. This month, We begin with Canonical introducing enterprise support for its own distribution of Kubernetes across public...
Canonical announcements
Big data gets super-fast with Ubuntu on Bigstep Metal Cloud
by Canonical on 14 September 2016
Bigstep gains Ubuntu Public Cloud certification Ubuntu Server images are optimized for performance, security, dependability on Bigstep Metal Cloud, with...
Cloud and server
MAAS 2.0: high availability API-driven bare metal provisioning
by Christian Reis on 8 September 2016
This week, the result of over a year of work by our engineering team is concluded: the final release of MAAS 2.0 is now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and...
Canonical announcements
Canonical certifies big software solutions at Facebook’s new lab
by Canonical on 30 August 2016
Written by David Duffey, Director of Technical Partnerships for Canonical’s cloud division Today at the OCP Technology Day, Facebook announced the grand...
Cloud and server
Renting bare-metal (as a Service) with MAAS
by Christian Reis on 15 March 2016
With the amount of industry excitement around virtualized cloud, it is easy to downplay the importance of directly utilizing bare metal infrastructure. And...
Cloud and server
Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 1 Recap
by Canonical on 23 February 2016
Bhaskar Gorti, President, Applications and Analytics at Nokia discusses Service Modeling and NFV deploymentThis is my first Mobile World Congress (MWC), and I...
Cloud and server
Nodes Networking: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju
by Canonical on 31 January 2016
This is part 4 of my ongoing “Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju” series. The last post, MAAS Setup: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju,...
Cloud and server
Introduction: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju
by Canonical on 21 January 2016
In the past months our Juju Core Sapphire team has been working on the design, planning, and implementation of a set of extended networking features for Juju...
Cloud and server
MAAS 1.9: Taking bare-metal beyond “minimal provisioning”
by Christian Reis on 20 January 2016
Complex node configuration now fully supported, including NIC bonding, tagged VLANs, bcache, LVM, software RAID devices and more One of the (only somewhat...
Cloud and server
Using bcache for performance gains on the Launchpad Database Servers
by Tom Haddon on 10 December 2015
Launchpad is the code hosting, bug tracking and build system for the Ubuntu distribution itself, and is used by many other software projects, including...