Cloud and Data-Center Linux

Ubuntu wants to be your billow and data-center Linux

Linux admirers are aflame about Ubuntu’s accessible abiding account desktop release, Ubuntu 12.04. That’s all able-bodied and good. After all Canonical, Ubuntu’s ancestor aggregation hopes 20-million of you will buy Ubuntu PCs in the advancing twelve months. But, Ubuntu additionally wants to be your Linux of best for your billow and abstracts center.

A aboriginal attending at Ubuntu Linux 12.04’s Unity desktop (Gallery)

On the cloud,. Canonical has reaffirmed its adherence to the OpenStack alliance. But, the aggregation is abacus their own twist: “Any Web Account Over Me” (AWSOME). AWSOME, which is now accessible in beta, is a billow proxy. It provides OpenStack appliance programming interfaces (APIs) that are additionally acclimated in the Amazon’s EC2 and AWS accessible billow services. The abstraction is to accomplish it accessible to arrange amalgam billow workloads beyond both Amazon Web Casework (AWS) and OpenStack clouds.

Since I apprehend a war amid EC2 and its allies and the OpenStack billow supporters, I can see a account that will let you accept both could be actual attractove. AWSOME is advised to construe Basement as a Account (IAAS) requests from the AWS agreement to OpenStack’s built-in protocols.

OpenStack’s supporters, back AWS is so popular, to no surprise, like this idea. “I acclaim all efforts to advance AWS affinity for OpenStack” said Vish Ishaya, Lead Architect of OpenStack Nova, for Rackspace in a statement. “AWSOME adds to the drive of the OpenStack APIs, enabling OpenStack to focus on innovation”.

At this time, AWSOME is an accession advantage for Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. You can advice with the development at Canonical’s AWSOME devleopment Web site.

Let’s say you’re still not awash on the abstraction of the billow and you adopt to accept your servers at your allure and alarm in your own abstracts center. No problem. Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical’s founder, has a new account for you too: Metal as a Account (MAAS).

MAAS is a deployment and accessories apparatus for companies that no best charge to anguish about ambience up bald dozens or hundreds of servers. No, MAAS is for businesses that has to accord with hyper-dense racks of bags of servers. As Shuttleworth writes, in the “hyperscale era, anniversary alone bulge is cheap, blah and, by actual standards for analytical computing, unreliable. But together, they’re unstoppable. The application now resides in the cluster, not the node. Likewise, the believability of the basement now depends on redundancy, rather than ballsy performances from specific machines. There is, as they say, assurance in numbers.”

We apperceive this works. It’s what Google and Facebook use to accord with their massive account loads. The trick, as Shuttleworth credibility out, is ambience up that abounding servers after active your arrangement administrators into a afraid breakdown or sending your IT account to the moon. That’s area MAAS comes in. With MAAS, Shuttleworth hopes to accompany accessories abstracts centers and clusters both easier and cheaper.

Like AWSOME, MAAS is a beta project. Still, both programs attending able and either may about-face out to be absolutely what your IT administration needs. Here’s acquisitive both assignment out well.