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MAAS and Juju in a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – Part 2
By Canonical, 19 November 2013
Enterprise environments rely on Ubuntu’s LTS (Long-term Support) release. Its established two year release cadence and five year security and maintenance...
Juju ice-cream icon design
By Matthieu James, 19 November 2013
Who doesn’t like ice-cream? Here in the design team we sure do! In the last few weeks we’ve been preparing a special Juju demo for the OpenStack Summit in...
Video: Ubuntu Cloud technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers
By Canonical, 18 November 2013
This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. ...
The new Ubuntu Resources
By Inayaili de León Persson, 18 November 2013
Today we’ve launched the alpha version of our latest project: the Ubuntu Resources website. This is our first responsive project that follows the mobile-first...
OpenStack Summit Hong Kong 2013: Interoperability and collaboration for a stronger OpenStack
By Mark Baker, 15 November 2013
To paraphrase from Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the OpenStack Developer Summit last week in Hong Kong, building clouds is no longer exciting. It’s easy....
Interested in MAAS and Juju? Here’s how to try it in a VM
By Canonical, 15 November 2013
The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of...
November Brown Bag lunch
By Canonical, 15 November 2013
Some of us in the Design team have been gathering on a monthly basis to have lunch together and share things we find interesting to us. Today, I’d like to...
Conducting Usability Testing: a case of just following the task script?
By Canonical, 11 November 2013
In the previous post, we talked about how to design effective user testing tasks to evaluate the usability of an interface. This post continues with this...
App Design Clinic #4
By Canonical, 11 November 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHs0bYWcq-E App design Clinic #4 focuses on icons, with questions from Stuart Langridge including: guidance on creating app...
Trademarks, community and criticism
By Canonical, 8 November 2013
Recently some concerns were expressed by fixubuntu.com, a website focusing on Ubuntu privacy, about a routine trademark enforcement email that Canonical sent....
Deploying Web Applications using Juju – (Part 3/3)
By Canonical, 7 November 2013
The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is...