A few weeks ago, we announced Juju bundles and Quickstart, and today we integrate them into the LTS release, the first one to also include the Juju GUI. Ubuntu’s cloud tools, MAAS for hardware provisioning and Juju for service orchestration, continue to get better. And on the public cloud front, we have official 14.04 images available for AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM SmartCloud, Joyent, and HP Cloud, and we’re extending our Public Cloud Programme to include more niche players, allowing them to offer their customers the same reliable and consistent Ubuntu experience as larger cloud providers. The cross-platform nature of Ubuntu continues in full force, with ARM64, IBM POWER, and Intel Avoton being added to the long list of supported hardware architectures. This release also includes quite a few package updates, including Tomcat 7, Postgresql 9.3, Libvirt 1.2, Puppet 3.0 and others. Docker’s image repository includes official Ubuntu images, including 14.04, and Docker is available to Ubuntu users via apt-get. Ubuntu has always been the preferred platform for Docker users, and now support for Docker is included in the Ubuntu Advantage support packages offered by Canonical. Docker, arguably the hottest cloud infrastructure technology around today, is included in this release. So, 14.04 is effectively both Ubuntu LTS and OpenStack LTS together.ġ4.04 is more than Ubuntu OpenStack. In fact, we are so confident of the maturity of OpenStack, that we’ve decided to support the Icehouse release for five years, just like the Ubuntu Server release it comes with. Today, Ubuntu OpenStack sits at the heart of cloud infrastructure at some of the world’s largest and most innovative companies, some of which were mentioned in our press release.
Ubuntu has for a long time been the platform of choice for running enterprise workloads such as web infrastructure.
After more than four years, we finally see the cloud coming of age, with OpenStack at its heart.
Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, which goes live today, is the third Ubuntu LTS release designed for cloud.
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