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Joshua Powers

Joshua Powers

12 posts

Public Cloud

Joshua Powers is a senior engineering on the Public Cloud team at Canonical. The team is responsible for generating the Ubuntu images used by millions of users on public and private clouds around the world. He previously ran the Ubuntu Server team where he was responsible for delivering technology behind Ubuntu Server and the overall quality of each release.

Joshua Powers
18 February 2021

Ubuntu EKS Platform Images for k8s 1.19

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Cody Shepherd’s blog. 1.19 Platform Images Now Live Following the GA of Kubernetes 1.19 support in AWS, EKS-optimized Ubuntu images for 1.19 node groups have been released. The ami-id of this image for each region can be found on the official site for Ubuntu EKS images. Like the 1.18 platform ...

Joshua Powers
7 May 2020

QEMU and libvirt enhancements in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog Ubuntu is the industry-leading operating system for cloud hosts and guests. Every day millions of Ubuntu instances are launched in private and public clouds around the world. Many launched right on top of Ubuntu itself. Canonical takes pride in offering the latest virtualization stac ...

Joshua Powers
16 October 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 16 Oct 2018

Cloud and server Server

The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. Spotlight: ...

Joshua Powers
15 October 2018

Deploying Ubuntu root on ZFS with MAAS

Cloud and server Server

With recent updates to MAAS and Curtin, deploying Ubuntu with a ZFS root disk is now possible! Curtin added zfsroot support earlier this year and MAAS has now exposed the option. However, Ubuntu root on ZFS with MAAS is experimental! We encourage users to try this out and report back any issues, but it is ...

Joshua Powers
9 April 2018

Ubuntu Bionic: Using chrony to configure NTP

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog   Using chrony to configure NTP Starting with Ubuntu Bionic, the choice for fast and accurate time synchronization is chrony. For the features available with chrony and how chrony compares to other time synchronization implementations check out the comparison page on the chrony site. ...

Joshua Powers
2 April 2018

Using cloud-init with Multipass

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog cloud-init + Multipass Multipass is a quick and easy way to launch virtual machine instances running Ubuntu. Cloud-init is the standard for customizing cloud instances and now Multipass can also make use of cloud-init to customize an instance during launch. Below is an example of lau ...

Joshua Powers
23 January 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 23 January 2018

Cloud and server Article

  The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. ...

Joshua Powers
15 December 2017

cloud-init 17.2 Released

Cloud and server Article

As announced, cloud-init 17.2 was released this week. From the announcement, some highlights include: CLI added the clean and status subcommands Support for identifying OVF datasource provided by VMware NoCloudKVM tests now run in continuous ...

Joshua Powers
1 December 2017

Ubuntu Bionic: Netplan

Cloud and server Article

NetplanFor this week’s Bionic test blitz I am looking at Netplan! Netplan enables easily configuring networking on a system via YAML files. Netplan processes the YAML and generates the required configurations for either NetworkManager or systemd-network the system’s renderer.Netplan replaced ifupdown as the default configuration utility s ...

Joshua Powers
2 October 2017

Server Team at the Ubuntu Rally in NYC

Cloud and server Article

The Ubuntu Rally occurred last week in New York City where the entirety of the Canonical Engineering teams as well as various members of the community spent time working through final plans for Artful and continued discussions for next year’s LTS release.Below are notes on a few items last week’s event:Artful Final BetaWe saw the release ...

Joshua Powers
20 September 2017

Mining Ethereum on Ubuntu with a GTX 1070

Cloud and server Article

EthereumEthereum has appeared more and more in the news and rightfully so. Ethereum recently set another transaction record of 400,000 transactions in a single day. Then the recent drama of the Bitcoin split has caused even more attention to Ethereum as an alternative. If you are unfamiliar with other Blockchain or Ethereum check out the ...

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