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Blog posts tagged
"containers"

Canonical
24 April 2017

OpenStack public cloud, from Stockholm to Dubai and everywhere between

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

City Network joins the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) programme First major CPC Partner in the Nordics City Network, a leading European provider of OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) today joined the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud programme. Through its public cloud service ‘City Cloud’, companies across the globe can purcha ...

Canonical
18 April 2017

Unitas Global and Canonical provide fully-managed enterprise OpenStack

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

Unitas Global, the leading enterprise hybrid cloud solution provider, and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container, cloud, scale out, and hyperscale computing announced they will provide a new fully managed and hosted OpenStack private cloud to enterprise clients around the world. This partnership, ...

Canonical
13 April 2017

Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and the leading platform for cloud and IoT operations. “The breadth and pace of open source innovation has made it the center of gravity in technology today, and the Ubuntu community ...

James Donner
3 April 2017

Cloud Chatter: March 2017

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Our March edition is packed with exciting content. We begin with our recent announcement of Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance providing ongoing security updates for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS at least another year. Download our latest ‘Carrier Cloudification’ eBook, or join our upcoming webinars on OpenStack, Containers, GPUs/Deep Learning ...

Stéphane Graber
29 March 2017

USB hotplug with LXD containers

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

USB devices in containersIt can be pretty useful to pass USB devices to a container. Be that some measurement equipment in a lab or maybe more commonly, an Android phone or some IoT device that you need to interact with.Similar to what I wrote recently about GPUs, LXD supports passing USB devices into containers. Again, similarly to the G ...

Tom Callway
29 March 2017

Carrier Cloudification: What every telecom executive needs to know

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

New imperatives, technologies, and the emergence of the public cloud are forcing telecom service providers to rethink and validate their fundamental business assumptions. The cloud has forced today’s telecom service providers to transform and perform at increasingly high speeds, counter to their normal mode of operations. Due to customer ...

Stéphane Graber
28 March 2017

NVidia CUDA inside a LXD container

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

GPU inside a container LXD supports GPU passthrough but this is implemented in a very different way than what you would expect from a virtual machine. With containers, rather than passing a raw PCI device and have the container deal … Continue reading → ...

Samuel Cozannet
9 March 2017

GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 3/3: Automating Tensorflow

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Here we are. After having spent 21min reading how to build a GPU Kubernetes cluster on AWS, 7min on adding EFS storage, you want to get to the real thing, which is actually DO something with it. So today we are going to define, design, deploy and operate a Deep Learning pipeline. So what is ...

Samuel Cozannet
7 March 2017

GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 2/3: Adding storage

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Earlier this week we built a GPU cluster and installed Kubernetes so that we can do some advanced data processing. What is the thing you need next right after you have GPUs? Data. Data. and Data. And technically, if you looked at any of the tutorials for Tensorflow or the recent PaddlePaddle blog posts, you’ll ...

Stéphane Graber
6 March 2017

Run your own LXD demo server

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The LXD demo serverThe LXD demo server is the service behind https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it.We use it to showcase LXD by leading visitors through an interactive tour of LXD’s features.Rather than use some javascript simulation of LXD and its client tool, we give our visitors a real root shell using a LXD container with nesting ena ...

James Donner
3 March 2017

Cloud Chatter: February 2017

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Our February edition is packed with great content! We kick off with explaining why software-defined everything matters and give you a recap of Mobile World Congress. Download our latest whitepaper on containers, or join our upcoming webinars on OpenStack, Containers and MAAS. We’ve also included a fantastic host of tutorials for getting s ...

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