Blog posts tagged
"MAAS"

131 posts

Bill Wear
25 February 2020

Quick-add KVMs for MAAS

MAAS Cloud and server

When designing or testing with MAAS, it’s often handy to start with virtual machines. If you’re just on your laptop, and you want to check out a new MAAS version, or mock up some datacentre idea you’ve been considering, KVMs are often very useful. You could create pods, of course, but it’s also very simple

Bill Wear
25 February 2020

Bill Wear
21 January 2020

MAAS doc undergoing major updates

Article MAAS

I want to start using real-world examples and neat networking configurations and other problem-oriented efforts as my baseline for writing. Heck, I’d even like to try using MAAS to control my little Raspberry Pi farm, although that’s probably not the recommended configuration, and I’m not sure how PXE-booting would work yet.

Bill Wear
21 January 2020

Kit Randel
6 December 2019

Migrating the MAAS UI from AngularJS to React

Article Design

MAAS (metal as a service), is a Canonical product which allows for very fast server provisioning and data centre management. Around 2014, work began to build a rich UI for MAAS, primarily using the AngularJS JavaScript framework from Google. AngularJS today is in long term support (LTS) and due to reach end-of-life in...

Kit Randel
6 December 2019

Alex Cattle
6 November 2019

Yahoo! Japan builds their IaaS environment with Canonical

Article Cloud and server

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...

Alex Cattle
6 November 2019

Guest
18 September 2019

Announcing the new IBM LinuxONE III with Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

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...

Guest
18 September 2019

Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration in MAAS

Article Cloud and server

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
12 September 2019

Andres Rodriguez
28 August 2019

Multi-tenancy in MAAS

Article Cloud and server

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...

Andres Rodriguez
28 August 2019

Andres Rodriguez
12 August 2019

Provisioning ESXi with MAAS: An overview

Article Cloud and server

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....

Andres Rodriguez
12 August 2019

Canonical
24 July 2019

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

Article Cloud and server

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...

Canonical
24 July 2019

Carmine Rimi
11 July 2019

Deploying Kubernetes at the edge – Part I: building blocks

Article Cloud and server

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...

Carmine Rimi
11 July 2019

Andres Rodriguez
9 July 2019

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

Article Cloud and server

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...

Andres Rodriguez
9 July 2019

Marcin Bednarz
6 June 2019

Need to set up servers in remote locations?

Article Cloud and server

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...

Marcin Bednarz
6 June 2019

Peter Mahnke
20 March 2019

Design and Web team summary – 15 March 2019

Design Cloud and server

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

Peter Mahnke
20 March 2019

Canonical
1 March 2019

MAAS – Fast and efficient virtualisation for small and medium enterprises

Article Cloud and server

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...

Canonical
1 March 2019

  1. Previous page
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. Next page