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Open-source cloud for beginners with OpenStack

In the beginning, there was Amazon Web Services (AWS). And AWS set a standard for cloud computing. AWS was fast, flexible, convenient to use and geo-redundant. Definitely much better than legacy IT infrastructure or VMware. A lot of enterprises all over the world started migrating their business applications to AWS. Over the next few year

Open source for beginners: setting up your dev environment with LXD

Are you looking for a way to practice your Linux commands without jeopardizing your underlying system? Want to practice running complex infrastructure use cases? Want to understand how the application you develop on your laptop would behave on a cloud instance? Try LXD.

Compassionate doc

Being the best open-source company in the world means building the best open-source documentation. That’s means giving appropriate respect for ownership and prior art. We crave your feedback about how to best make that happen.

Omnichannel Enablement: 4 technology success factors

For retailers considering a transition to omnichannel, there are four key success factors to keep in mind.

OpenInfra Summit Berlin is coming

Heads up! The OpenInfra Summit Berlin is coming!!! After the difficult pandemic times, the OpenInfra Summit is finally back. This year the event will take place in Berlin, Germany in June, 7-9. As usual, Canonical will be there to share the latest news about Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes and Infrastructure (LOKI). Canonical at the OpenInfr

OpenStack Yoga on Ubuntu LTS delivers highly performant infrastructure for telcos and researchers with SmartNICs and DPUs

March 31, London – Canonical today announced the general availability of OpenStack Yoga on Ubuntu 22.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Beta and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This new version of OpenStack sets a foundation for next-generation, highly performant infrastructure as needed by telco NFV, media streaming, traffic analysis and HPC services, using S

An overview of OpenStack storage

OpenStack storage is probably one of the most complex topics in OpenStack architecture right after networking. There are many different storage options, at least a few storage services, and tons of supported storage backends. It is very easy to get lost. But do not worry, there is hope. Since OpenStack was initially created as an

Open source cloud platform: meet OpenStack

Are you looking for an open source cloud platform and you don’t know where to start? Are you getting lost in all the independent rankings and cloud platform comparison pages? Try OpenStack and get your open source cloud platform up and running today. OpenStack works at any scale: from a single workstation to thousands of

OpenStack challenges 2022

Happy New Year 2022! The fireworks are all fired, the champagne is over. It is time to get back to work. We are glad to see you here though. 2021 was a good year for OpenStack and its Ubuntu-based community. First, we all have seen Ubuntu becoming the number one operating system (OS) for OpenStack

Linux deployment tools: MAAS 3.1 for hot metal

Back a few months ago, we did a feature poll on our MAAS forum, and the most-requested new feature turned out to be “Recommission/rescan a machine after it has been deployed“. With the release of MAAS 3.1, we’ve added that feature, making MAAS an even better choice for linux deployment tools. Here’s a sample of

Announcing MAAS 3.1: bare metal cloud gets easier

We are happy to announce that MAAS 3.1 has been released. Bare metal provisioning just got even easier! MAAS 3.1 brings some of the most frequently-requested features into the product. A lot of this is serendipity — or maybe you could say that it’s about like minds tracking the same problem. Either way, we’re doing

Canonical chez Cloud Expo Europe Paris 2021

Le salon Cloud Expo Europe Paris ouvre ses portes aux cadres et experts du Cloud et de la transformation digitale. Canonical sera présent en tant que Gold sponsor pour présenter les tendances et stratégies émergentes des leaders de l’industrie dans le cadre du DevOps live. Inscrivez-vous gratuitement Prenez rendez-vous Réduire les coûts i

OpenStack vs AWS: which one is better for you?

OpenStack vs AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a discussion that almost every organisation must conduct when adopting a cloud strategy. This is because OpenStack and AWS are undoubtedly leading technologies in the public and private cloud spaces. While AWS is the most popular commercial cloud platform, OpenStack remains its most popular open s

Canonical at Cloud Expo Europe Madrid 2021

The leading fair in London, Paris, Frankfurt and Singapore will open the doors of its first edition to C-level experts and executives in Madrid. Canonical will be attending as a Silver level Sponsor, presenting strategies and trends for industry leading companies, as part of the DevOps stream. Register for the event Book a meeting Reduce

KVM hypervisor: a beginners’ guide

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the leading open source virtualisation technology for Linux. It installs natively on all Linux distributions and turns underlying physical servers into hypervisors so that they can host multiple, isolated virtual machines (VMs). KVM comes with no licenses, type-1 hypervisor capabilities and a variety

Commissioning deployed machines: Request granted

We want to make it possible to deploy MAAS in an existing datacenter, and have it keep track of machines that already have a deployed workload — without disturbing machine or workload. Currently, in order to get a machine into MAAS, with correct hardware information, you have to network boot the machine and let MAAS