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All you need to know about designing, building and managing your Openstack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale‑out deployment.
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Bare metal server provisioning series: the economics of automation
by Canonical on 2 March 2017
This is the first in a series of blogs posts discussing the value of bare metal server provisioning and the economics it can bring to businesses. The server...
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Mobile World Congress 2017: day 3 recap
by Canonical on 1 March 2017
With day three coming-and-going, it is clear the telecoms are going to come under more and more pressure to change their business models not to just thrive,...
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DevOps for netOps
by Canonical on 1 March 2017
Increasing operational efficiency by managing switches like servers Historically, datacenter switch and network infrastructure has been staged and managed...
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Mobile World Congress 2017: day two recap
by Canonical on 1 March 2017
One of the overarching themes of day two at MWC has been how software can help telecom service providers to improve operational IT efficiencies – i.e....
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Mobile World Congress 2017: day one recap
by Canonical on 27 February 2017
It’s the last week of February and that can only mean one thing, Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. This event, unlike other mega shows, has...
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The no-nonsense way to accelerate your business with containers
by Cezzaine Zaher on 27 February 2017
Container technology has brought about a step-change in virtualisation technology. Organisations implementing containers see considerable opportunities to...
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LXD client on Windows and macOS
by Stéphane Graber on 27 February 2017
LXD on other operating systems? While LXD and especially its API have been designed in a mostly OS-agnostic way, the only OS supported for the daemon right...
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LXD 2.0: Debugging and contributing to LXD [12/12]
by Stéphane Graber on 27 February 2017
This is the twelfth and last blog post in this series about LXD 2.0. Introduction This is finally it! The last blog post in this series of 12 that started...
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Ubuntu Core in LXD containers
by Stéphane Graber on 27 February 2017
What’s Ubuntu Core? Ubuntu Core is a version of Ubuntu that’s fully transactional and entirely based on snap packages. Most of the system is read-only. All...
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HOWTO: Automatically import your public SSH keys into LXD Instances
by Dustin Kirkland on 25 February 2017
Just another reason why LXD is so awesome…You can easily configure your own cloud-init configuration into your LXD instance profile.In my case, I want...
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Dustin Kirkland: The questions that you’re afraid to ask about containers
by Dustin Kirkland on 24 February 2017
Yesterday, I delivered a talk to a lively audience at ContainerWorld in Santa Clara, California.If I measured “the most interesting slides” by counting “the...
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Why does software-defined everything matter?
by Canonical on 22 February 2017
Does anybody still think of a phone as a way of just making calls? According to Informate Mi less than 10% of the time you spend on a phone is spent giving...