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Blog posts tagged
"MAAS"

Alex Cattle
6 November 2019

Yahoo! Japan builds their IaaS environment with Canonical

Cloud and server Article

Yahoo! Japan, originally formed as a joint venture between Yahoo! and SoftBank, is one of the most popular internet advertising, search engines and e-commerce sites in the country and employs over 6000 people. Due to having such scale and volume of users, Yahoo! Japan required outside help to build their IaaS (infrastructure as a service) ...

Guest
18 September 2019

Announcing the new IBM LinuxONE III with Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

This is a guest blog by Kara Todd, Director, Linux, IBM Z and LinuxONE Enterprises today need a highly secure, and flexible system to support their initiatives, and for that system to grow and evolve for tomorrow. The latest LinuxONE system was designed to support mission-critical initiatives and allow enterprises to be innovative as they ...

Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration in MAAS

Cloud and server Article

In this blog, we are going to explore how to leverage MAAS for hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration using tags. In many cases, certain pieces of hardware require extra kernel parameters to be set in order to make use of them. For example, when configuring GPU passthrough we will typically need to configure the GPU ...

Andres Rodriguez
28 August 2019

Multi-tenancy in MAAS

Cloud and server Article

In this blog post, we are going to introduce the concept of multi-tenancy in MAAS. This allows operators to have different groups of users own a group of resources (machines) without ever even knowing about other groups of users enabling enhanced machine utilisation. A common use case for medium and large-scale environments is to provide ...

Andres Rodriguez
12 August 2019

Provisioning ESXi with MAAS: An overview

Cloud and server Article

MAAS has supported provisioning ESXi starting from MAAS 2.5. However, MAAS 2.6 has expanded its support and provides new features that significantly improves the provisioning experience. What is supported? The support MAAS provides for provisioning an operating system varies depending on the operating system in use. Even though MAAS tries ...

Canonical
24 July 2019

BT turns to Canonical Ubuntu to enable next generation 5G Cloud Core

Cloud and server Article

Today, Canonical announces its Charmed OpenStack on Ubuntu has been selected by BT as a key component of its next generation 5G Core. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, will provide the open source virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) as part of BT’s Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) program, and the transition to a cloud-based Cor ...

Carmine Rimi
11 July 2019

Deploying Kubernetes at the edge – Part I: building blocks

Cloud and server Article

Edge computing continues to gain momentum to help solve unique challenges across telco, media, transportation, logistics, agricultural and other market segments. If you are new to edge computing architectures, of which there are several, the following diagram is a simple abstraction for emerging architectures: In this diagram you can see ...

Andres Rodriguez
9 July 2019

MAAS 2.6 – ESXi storage, multiple gateways, HTTP boot and more

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is happy to announce the availability of MAAS 2.6. This new release introduces a range of very exciting features and several improvements that enhances MAAS across various areas. Let’s talk about a few notable ones: Growing support for ESXi Datastores MAAS has expanded its support of ESXi by allowing administrators to create & c ...

Marcin Bednarz
6 June 2019

Need to set up servers in remote locations?

Cloud and server Article

Use bare metal provisioning with a top-of-the-rack switch When deploying a small footprint environment such as edge computing sites, 5G low latency services, a site support cabinet or baseband unit, its critical to establish the optimal number of physical servers needed for set up. While several approaches exist, bare metal provisioning t ...

Peter Mahnke
20 March 2019

Design and Web team summary – 15 March 2019

Cloud and server Design

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web team Homepage takeovers This iteration we designed and built four takeovers for our home pages including: The German version of compliance webinar The German version of AI/ML webinar A ...

Canonical
1 March 2019

MAAS – Fast and efficient virtualisation for small and medium enterprises

Cloud and server Article

The advent of virtualisation has significantly changed the way we use IT infrastructure. In theory, the ability to share single server resources to run multiple isolated operating systems provides flexibility and promises easy operations. However, in practice, managing virtualised infrastructure can be quite expensive and complex as a res ...

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