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Joshua Powers

Joshua Powers

37 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
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
14 November 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 14 Nov 2017

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. Spotlight: ...

Joshua Powers
12 October 2017

How to find Ubuntu Server Bugs to Fix

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu Server BugsEver wanted to help out in the development of Ubuntu Server, but did not know how? One of the best ways to get started is by working on bugs. Not only does it improve the distribution for millions of users, but also gives you an opportunity to see how the distribution is made.I am publishing this after a year of learning ...

Joshua Powers
11 October 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 10 Oct 2017

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. Spotlight: Artful ...

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 ...

Joshua Powers
31 August 2017

cloud-init Summit in Seattle, Washington

Cloud and server Article

Introduction Last week the cloud-init development team from Canonical ran a two-day summit in Seattle, Washington. The purpose of the summit was to meet with contributors to cloud-init from cloud providers and OS vendors to demo recent developments in cloud-init, resolve outstanding issues, and collect feedback on development and test pro ...

Joshua Powers
4 August 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 4 Aug 2017

Ubuntu 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. Spotlight: git ...

Joshua Powers
28 July 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 28 Jul 2017

Ubuntu 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. Spotlight: Developing ...

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