Blog posts tagged "cloud"

MAAS Outside the Lines

Far from the humdrum of server setups, this is about unusual deployments – Raspberry Pis, loose laptops, cheap NUCs, home appliances, and more. What the heck...

Canonical extends its commercial OpenStack offering to small-scale cloud environments with project Sunbeam

June 13, Vancouver, OpenInfra Summit – Canonical today announced the extension of its commercial OpenStack offering to small-scale cloud environments with a...

Spring news from the LXD team

In this blog, we will go through some of the most significant features we have included in our monthly releases so far this year. Links to each of the release...

No more DHCP(d)

“He’s dead, Jim.”  Dr. McCoy DHCP is dead; long live DHCP. Yes, the end-of-life announcement for ISC DHCP means that the ISC will no longer provide official...

Help us build better doc

We want you to join our Ubuntu circle, and help us document MAAS. More minds, more eyes, more hands make better doc.

Common misconceptions behind cloud migration failures

Migrating your workloads to the cloud can bring some undeniable benefits to your organisation. For example, you can leverage cloud automation to significantly...

Why are companies leaving the cloud? Exploring the main reasons for cloud repatriation

There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about companies leaving the cloud. With the looming macroeconomic uncertainties that are affecting growth,...

Containerization vs. Virtualization : understand the differences

Containerization vs. Virtualization : understand the differences and benefits of each approach, as well as connections to cloud computing.

DIY chiselled Ubuntu: crafting your own chiselled Ubuntu base image

In a previous post, I explained how we made our Ubuntu image 15 times smaller by chiselling a specific slice of Ubuntu for .NET developers. In this blog, I...

Chiselled Ubuntu containers: the benefits of combining Distroless and Ubuntu

Last August, we announced 6 MB-size Ubuntu base images designed for self-contained .NET applications — we called them “chiselled Ubuntu”. How did we make our...

Hybrid cloud infrastructure modernisation

Public clouds enabled digital transformation at unprecedented speed. But their operational costs over time can be exacting as compute needs increase. Hybrid...

See for yourself: the benefits of chiselled Ubuntu images in action with an ASP.NET shop demo

Looking for a way to improve the performance and reliability of your online shopping and payment systems during the holiday season? Look no further than...

Chiselled Ubuntu: the perfect present for your containerised and cloud applications

As we enter the holiday season, online shopping and payment systems are gearing up for higher traffic and workloads. Ensuring that these applications can...

Launch your own MicroCloud with one command

Deploy your own micro cloud with a single command in just a few minutes. Try out the new significantly simplified deployment process.

Rencontrez Canonical à Cloud Expo Europe Paris 2022

Le salon leader de Londres, Paris, Francfort et Singapour ouvrira ses portes aux leaders du business tech à Paris les 16 & 17 novembre 2022. Retrouvez...

Join our Ubuntu circle

The Ubuntu circle: We are because you are The MAAS 3.3 Beta 1 release is out.  You should take a look. Normally, a blog like this would wait for the final...