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Anthony Dillon
20 February 2019

Design and Web team summary – 20 February 2019

Cloud and server Design

Snapcraft squad Report a Snap Last year, a snap was found in the Snap Store using computing resources for bitcoin mining without user consent. This software was retired from the Store after further investigation and highlighted the need for snapcraft.io users to report potential snaps violating trademark, copyright or terms and conditions ...

Canonical
16 January 2019

MAAS 2.5 : Growing the ecosystem and support for KVM micro-clouds

Cloud and server Article

Our latest release makes for a very exciting point in the MAAS evolution. As datacenter (DC) infrastructure grows at unparalleled scale fueled by new applications and services such as connected autonomous cars, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) and IoT, the need for automated bare metal provisioning has never been more important. Multi-ac ...

Joshua Powers
15 October 2018

Deploying Ubuntu root on ZFS with MAAS

Cloud and server Server

With recent updates to MAAS and Curtin, deploying Ubuntu with a ZFS root disk is now possible! Curtin added zfsroot support earlier this year and MAAS has now exposed the option. However, Ubuntu root on ZFS with MAAS is experimental! We encourage users to try this out and report back any issues, but it is ...

Canonical
30 May 2018

OpenStack Summit Vancouver: Automating the data centre

Cloud and server Article

Stu Miniman and John Boyer of theCUBE interviewed Mark Shuttleworth at the OpenStack Summit following the Canonical founder’s keynote in Vancouver. Read on for the full interview, and to hear more on the economics of cloud. Rethinking the data centre to make it fully automated from the ground up was the opportunity presented to architects ...

Canonical
23 April 2018

Dell Technologies World 2018

Cloud and server Article

Details Date: April 30th – May 3rd Location: Las Vegas Venue: The Venetian Booth: 1756 More information Background Discover the Dell Technologies connected ecosystem of IT infrastructure, applications, devices and security that enable real transformation. Dell Technologies World is for the technologists, thought leaders and executives rea ...

Canonical
14 March 2018

MAAS 2.4.0 Alpha 2 released!

Cloud and server Article

This originally appeared on Andres Rodriguez’s blog Hello MAASters! I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.4.0 alpha 2 has now been released and is available for Ubuntu Bionic. MAAS Availability MAAS 2.4.0 alpha 1 is available in the Bionic -proposed archive or in the following PPA: ppa:maas/next MAAS 2.4.0 (alpha2) Important announcements NTP ...

Canonical
6 March 2018

MAAS for the home

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Chris Sanders’ blog MAAS is designed to run in a data center where it expects to have control of DNS and DHCP. The use of an external DHCP server is listed as ‘may work but not supported’ in the MAAS documentation. This guide will describe how I configured MAAS to ...

dannf
26 February 2018

Deploying Ubuntu OpenStack to ARM64 servers

Canonical announcements Article

At Canonical, we’ve been doing work to make sure Ubuntu OpenStack deploys on ARM servers as easily as on x86. Whether you have Qualcomm 2400 REP boards, Cavium ThunderX boards, HiSilicon D05 boards, or other Ubuntu  Certified server hardware, you can go from bare metal to a working OpenStack in minutes! The following tutorial will walk ...

Christian Reis
20 December 2017

Machine reservation and multi-tenancy in MAAS

Cloud and server Article

As product manager for MAAS, a common request MAAS end-users bring is multi-tenancy, which in its more fundamental form can be understood as the ability to reserve machines for certain sets of users. This is common when you have a central MAAS which is managing multiple parts of your datacenter; it applies less when you ...

Canonical
1 December 2017

Introduction to MAAS: building the agile data centre

Cloud and server Webinar

As more and more applications move to the public cloud, many wonder if it still makes sense to maintain a data centre apart from regulated workloads. In this presentation Andres Rodriguez, MAAS engineering manager, will look into how devops and infrastructure managers can build an agile data centre with a developer agility and a cost ...

Canonical
21 November 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 (final) Released!

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Andres Rodriguez’s blog I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.3.0 (final) is now available! This new MAAS release introduces a set of exciting features and improvements to the overall user experience. It now becomes the focus of maintenance, as it fully replaces MAAS 2.2 In order to provide with sufficient ...

Canonical
31 October 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 beta 3 released!

Cloud and server Article

Hello MAASters!I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.3.0 Beta 3 has now been released and it is currently available in PPA and as a snap.PPA AvailabilityFor those running Ubuntu Xenial and would like to use beta 3, please use the following PPA:ppa:maas/nextSnap AvailabilityFor those running from the snap, or would like to test the snap, pleas ...

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