Ubuntu 15.04 will be available for download from Canonical on Thursday, 23 April with updates across the desktop, phone, cloud and IoT ecosystem. The latest release features a fully converged platform spanning cloud, device and client.
The advanced developers’ favourite platform, Ubuntu 15.04 will be available for download from Canonical on Thursday, 23 April with updates across the desktop, phone, cloud and IoT ecosystem. The latest release features a fully converged platform spanning cloud, device and client.
Being the favourite environment for Linux developers, Ubuntu comes with products such as the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. It brings a host of improvements and enhancements designed to help cloud-focused businesses and developers design, deploy and manage successful cloud projects. It not only introduces new tools for cloud and IoT development, but also makes the desktop more productive with integrated menus and dashboard usability improvements.
Ubuntu OpenStack leads in key areas of ease of use, robustness and flexibility and, with OpenStack Kilo, enterprises and telecoms companies can experiment more with OpenStack than ever before. In networking, Neutron is updated to include Distributed Virtual Routing (DVR) to enable Neutron to scale more efficiently using multiple nodes. Ubuntu OpenStack also includes a new OpenStack nova driver for LXD: nova-compute-LXD, which allows end users to deploy workloads on OpenStack into containers based on LXD bringing the advantages of high performance and density compared to KVM based workloads keeping with the security isolation and flexibility offered by traditional virtual machines.
The support for ZeroMQ (0MQ) is also included with Ubuntu OpenStack via the Oslo messaging system is. 0MQ is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library that does not require the use of a dedicated message broker. The aim of using 0MQ is to cut down messaging bottlenecks created at the messaging brokers in large scale deployments. Firms like telcos, carriers, big organisations and service providers that Canonical works with require the highest levels of scalability, efficiency and flexibility from OpenStack.
As 15.04 container features live migration of LXC containers between hosts, Improved security model for containers through AppArmor profiles and Docker updated to 1.5, developers run LXD on all the machines where they want to create and tear down container based workloads in this new Ubuntu container environment.
In Ubuntu OpenStack, the reference implementation of Cinder is based on Ceph where important updates have been made. ‘Snappy’ which is expected to evolve in the coming years, is available within Ubuntu 15.04 for the first time. With Systemd as the default init system, Ubuntu 15.04 is available for download at www.ubuntu.com/download from 23 April 2015.
