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Joshua Powers
31 August 2017

cloud-init Summit in Seattle, Washington

Cloud and server Article

Introduction Last week the cloud-init development team from Canonical ran a two-day summit in Seattle, Washington. The purpose of the summit was to meet with contributors to cloud-init from cloud providers and OS vendors to demo recent developments in cloud-init, resolve outstanding issues, and collect feedback on development and test pro ...


tribaal
31 August 2017

Running an Ubuntu mirror with Juju!

Cloud and server Article

This originally appeared on Chris Glass’ blog Running a mirror for your favorite distribution is much easier than it sounds when leveraging the right tools (and the work of others, including yours truly). You might be interested to see what we (the Public Cloud team and Web Operations team at Canonical) developed over the years ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
31 August 2017

Why containers and automation are essential in a world being eaten by software

Cloud and server Webinar

Sign up for our new webinar on containers and automation, to understand the challenges that increasingly complex software brings and how to achieve economically sustainable operations.   ...



31 August 2017

OpenStack Weekly Update

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared in James Page’s blog Welcome to the sixth Ubuntu OpenStack development summary! Firstly apologies for the lack of update two weeks ago; your author’s attempt to schedule publication whilst he was on holiday failed miserably – so this edition is a bit of a wrap up of the last 3-4 weeks ...


Canonical
30 August 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: August 31, 2017

Cloud and server Article

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [email protected] During the last week ...


Canonical
30 August 2017

Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary – August 30, 2017

Cloud and server Article

This newsletter is here to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the Foundations team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-devel channel on freenode. Highlights We encourage flavor teams to ...


Canonical
30 August 2017

Kernel Team Summary: August 30, 2017

Cloud and server Article

August 22 through August 28 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Beta 1 – Aug 31 (~1-2 days away) Final Beta – Sept 28 (~4 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~5 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~6 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.04 – Oct 19 (~7 weeks away) We intend ...


Christian Brauner
30 August 2017

Ceph storage driver in LXD

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared in Christian Brauner’s blog Even before LXD gained its new powerful storage API that allows LXD to administer multiple storage pools, one frequent request was to extend the range of available storage drivers (btrfs, dir, lvm, zfs) to include Ceph. Now we are happy to announce that we fulfilled this request ...


David Britton
29 August 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 29 Aug 2017

Cloud and server Article

Hello Ubuntu Server! The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team ...


Canonical
29 August 2017

Testing Unsupported Release Upgrades

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Brian Murray’s blog Earlier I wrote about how it is possible to upgrade, with the upgrade prompt set to normal, from Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) to Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty) and that this is a supported upgrade path. There is an unsupported method to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to Artful Aardvark, which ...


Sergio Schvezov
29 August 2017

Week 34 of 2017 in snapcraft

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared in Snapcraft Forums Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 20-26, 2017. Development in master many: simplify plugin loading PR: #1507 grammar: move into project_loader PR: #1500 project loader: refactor into package PR: #1504 ci: speedup the CLA check PR: #1503 ...