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Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
17 June 2015

12 Questions about Juju

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

If you want to get the basics about Juju, here is a good place to start! 1) What is Juju? Juju is a state of the art, open source service modelling tool. It forms part of Ubuntu’s cloud portfolio, together with Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu OpenStack, MAAS for bare-metal provisioning, and Landscape for systems management and monitoring. ...

Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Deploying OpenStack from source to scalable multi-node environments

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The Juju OpenStack charms now have support for deploying OpenStack from source! This means that you can point the charms at the OpenStack git repositories/branches of your choice, whether they’re the well known upstream repos or your own modified repos, and deploy to your choice of substrate via Juju (to metal via MAAS, private/public clo ...

Pierre Bertet
16 June 2015

The Grid System in detail

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Following the article “To converge onto mobile, tablet, and desktop, think Grid Units”, here is a technical description of the way the Grid System behave. We will go through the following concepts: a Grid Unit, a Layout, a Panel, and a Multi-Column Layout. Grid Unit A Grid Unit (GU) is a virtual subdivision of screen ...

Arturo Suarez
16 June 2015

Starting up in the new OpenStack

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

I had the pleasure to deliver a session at the recent OpenStack day in Budapest, one of the many events organized by different community members globally, followed by a panel with several OpenStack notables. There was one question I jumped into, and that triggered me writing this post: Are the recent acquisition of OpenStack startups ...

Canonical
15 June 2015

Fast Galera Cluster Deployments in the Cloud Using Juju

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

The Galera Cluster Juju Charm was recently released, and it is now possible to start scalable Galera Clusters using the Juju deployment framework on the public or private cloud (OpenStack, Amazon, Azure and bare metal are all supported). All the logic required to fire up Galera is encapsulated in the Charm, which is a small ...

Canonical
12 June 2015

SDK Convergence Sprint 2015

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Last week the SDK team gathered in London for a sprint that focused on convergence, which consisted of pulling apart each component and discussing ways in which each would adapt to different form factors. The SDK provides off-the-shelf UI components that make up our Ubuntu apps; however now we’re entering the world of Unity 8 ...

Canonical
12 June 2015

Zabbix + IoT/Snappy: allows users to feel the pulse of things

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Things around us are becoming smarter every day and many tasks we use to perform manually are becoming automated. As our dependency on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology grows, we need to make sure such devices work reliably, securely and don’t fail with the tasks we entrust to them. Implementation of such control requires ...

Canonical
11 June 2015

Mark Shuttleworth’s ODS Vancouver Keynote

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This year’s OpenStack Summit was the most successful yet; playing host to a record number of exhibitors who excited and inspired over 5,000 visiting delegates. During the course of the week, attendees were treated to a host of keynotes, breakout session and track day presentations; aimed to bring the latest news, views, innovation and opi ...

Dustin Kirkland
11 June 2015

How many containers can you run on your machine?

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

652 Linux containers running on a Laptop?  Are you kidding me???A couple of weeks ago, at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canonical released the results of some scalability testing of Linux containers (LXC) managed by LXD.Ryan Harper and James Page presented their results — some 536 Linux containers on a very modest little Intel server ...

Canonical
11 June 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: May 2015 Newsletter

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Summer has arrived (at least in some parts of the world!) and we’ve been busy telling the world about the opportunities created by Ubuntu Advantage Storage and challenging KVM with our LXD ‘lightervisor’. We are proud to maintain our status as the operating system of choice for most production OpenStack cloud deployments, as revealed by ...

Canonical
11 June 2015

Clearwater and Juju

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Like our sister project, Calico, we on the Project Clearwater team have been using Juju for some of our orchestration needs. In this blog post, I’m going to talk about what Juju is, why it’s a good fit for IMS orchestration, and what we’ve done recently on our Juju charms. Both the Calico blog linked ...

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