Juju has been described as APT for the cloud. APT does an amazing job of installing, configuring, and starting complicated software stacks and services, but only as long as all of that happens on only one system.

Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, is trying to make Development/Operations (DevOps) on the cloud easy with its Juju framework. The Juju project has been around for a while, but frankly it wasn’t that impressive… until now. At a demo at the Open Source Conference (OSCON), Jorge Castro, a Canonical developer relations executive, and Mark Mims, [...]

Cloud computing and colocation provider FiberCloud announces today that they now support Ubuntu operating systems on both their cloud and dedicated servers. Customers now have the option to choose pre-installed Ubuntu cloud servers, offering more operating system options for open-source servers. Ubuntu comes installed on cloud servers at no additional charge.

The free cloud service is called TryStack. It works a lot like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, except that it runs on the open source OpenStack software, and is intended as a sandbox, not to run production code. Although OpenStack supports ARM, TryStack was initially set up to run just x86 servers, and is powered by [...]

The past week has marked the beginning of a new era for cloud technology in general and for Azure and Ubuntu in particular. Microsoft publicized that its cloud-computing service, Azure, is proudly extending the spectrum of its support to Ubuntu, the much-admired open-source, Linux-powered operating system. Additionally, in a blog post created a day later, [...]

Cloud key management firm Gazzang is offering Ubuntu users the huge convenience of being able to securely back up and recover eCryptfs encryption keys used to scramble files in the home directory.

Indeed, while Red Hat dominates the data centre, every survey I’ve seen suggests that Ubuntu is still the dominant cloud OS, above RHEL, CentOS, and even Windows. This is the case for AWS, Rackspace, and other public cloud infrastructure. It’s also true of the market for public websites where Ubuntu also surpasses Red Hat.

Canonical has unveiled a beta version of AWSOME (Any Web Service Over ME), an open source proxy service that helps users who currently use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to migrate to OpenStack’s cloud computing platform. AWSOME will be included as an install option in the server edition of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS which is scheduled to [...]

Linux fans are excited about Ubuntu’s forthcoming long-term service desktop release, Ubuntu 12.04. That’s all well and good. After all Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company hopes 20-million of you will buy Ubuntu PCs in the coming twelve months. But, Ubuntu also wants to be your Linux of choice for your cloud and data center.

Kicking off this May, the Ubuntu Cloud Summit is a one day event for both technology and business people interested in what cloud computing can do for their organisations.

Ubuntu Cloud Day will be the largest event in Bangalore in 2012 that focuses on getting developers productive on Ubuntu Cloud, a platform that is growing in popularity every day. Ubuntu Cloud Day is sponsored by Intel.

Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (long-term support) is being built with the latest Linux kernel and OpenStack IT and is currently undergoing integration and quality assurance testing with Dell’s version of OpenStack.

I asked Joey if we could help. Some standalone server being set up in some rack on only one box? What happens when the site gets busy? What if the facility goes down? So we’re not only going to move him to AWS, we were going to do it with juju so we can show [...]

Leading open source software and services provider, Obsidian, is pleased to announce that it has strengthened its relationship with Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating system, by joining its Ubuntu Advantage Reseller partner network.

There’s a lot of new features in the latest iteration of Ubuntu. Today we take a look at the new Software Centre, OneConf and Ubuntu One.

Ubuntu has lost its “top dog” status on Hewlett-Packard’s cloud. The computer giant has told The Reg that, contrary to initial claims by Canonical, Ubuntu won’t be the “lead host and guest operating system”.

Ubuntu has been named “lead host and guest operating system” on Hewlett-Packard’s fledgling OpenStack-based cloud. Canonical has been working closely with HP during the tech juggernaut’s cloud beta, which opened one month ago, to ensure Ubuntu provides a secure and scalable “business-class” cloud “for companies of all sizes”.

The next version of Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux distribution, to be released next week, will be the first to run on the Arm architecture, as well as the first edition to offer a new cloud service orchestration engine, called JuJu.

With a lack of any license fees and a focus on cloud features from its primary sponsor, Canonical, Ubuntu has flourished in the cloud, becoming a popular guest operating system on Amazon EC2 and other infrastructure-as-a-service options.

Ubuntu 11.10 is now available for free public download. Word on the street is that this iteration of the open source operating system will feature “management and orchestration tools” that DevOps practitioners need to embrace cloud computing.

Armed with Ensemble I can very simply launch an EC2 instance, install rtorrent (my fav cli torrent client) and rtgui (rtorrent Web UI) and have it ready to crunch on any of your torrenting needs. We both became interested in seeing how well that would work and so here we go…

Dell’s services arm will help install VMware’s Cloud Foundry programme, while Ubuntu will begin including parts of the software, says Jerry Chen, VMware VP. EnStratus Networks, which lets companies manage cloud computing software, will also support Cloud Foundry.

Many new cloud computing platforms–including OpenStack, which is backed by heavy-hitting tech titans–have been beating the war drums for the last couple of years, and VMware’s Cloud Foundry, which is billed to allow deployment and scalability of cloud apps in seconds, is now getting a lot of notice.

Instead of having to use an extra service, like Windows with Live Mesh; wait for Apple to get iCloud deployed; or use a third-party services, such as YouSendIt or Dropbox, Ubuntu’s been coming with Ubuntu One, it’s built-in cloud file client and service, since Ubuntu 9.10 was released in October 2009.

Canonical today announces the launch of Ubuntu Advantage Cloud Guest, a set of technical support services, management tools and legal cover for businesses running Ubuntu in public cloud environments.

Just over a week ago Apple unveiled iCloud-the new data syncing and streaming service that will keep all of your data, contacts, email, and music in sync across various devices. As awesome and revolutionary as iCloud seems, though, Ubuntu is already delivering a similar service with Ubuntu One.

OK, it’s not too surprising that Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, has switched to OpenStack for its Ubuntu cloud foundation technology. What is surprising is that Neil Levine, who as Canonical’s VP of corporate services, which included the cloud, has jumped ship to start a new company, Soba Labs.

We knew Ubuntu was “Linux for human beings.” Aiming to catch the current cloud computing wave, Canonical has now also officially deemed Ubuntu as “the cloud OS.” But what exactly does the claim mean to cloud services providers (CSPs) and potential Ubuntu channel partners?

Canonical, purveyor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, is on a quest to make Ubuntu the go-to server operating system for cloud computing. If it succeeds, it will validate the stance that there is a definite place for open source in cloud computing, and it’s at the layers where differentiation might well become a non-factor in [...]

Canonical today announced the availability of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) running on Dell PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers in an integrated solution enabling Dell’s U.S.-based customers to easily deploy Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).