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Canonical is proud to be one of the premier sponsors of the OpenStack Summit.Ubuntu Founder, Mark Shuttleworth, will be presenting a keynote session and the Canonical team will be there, so stop by our booth and say hello!Canonical was the first company to commercially distribute and support OpenStack – and Ubuntu has remained the reference operating system for the OpenStack project since the beginning. We include it in every download and CD of Ubuntu Server, which gives us a huge interest in its continuing development.Canonical is also one of eight members of the OpenStack Foundation.

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The second webinar of our Ubuntu 12.10 series focuses on Folsom, the latest release of OpenStack. In this webinar, Ubuntu Server Engineering Manager Dave Walker will talk you through the process of deploying Folsom on Ubuntu 12.10 and 12.04 LTS, showcasing some of the unique deployment tools that make Ubuntu the fastest route to a fully-operative, enterprise-grade OpenStack cloud. Join us, learn more and ask questions live!

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Introduction to OpenStack cloud in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server provides access to Ubuntu Cloud, an Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) platform based on OpenStack. As a cloud technology for public or private deployments, OpenStack has become immensely popular due to its speed, its flexibility and the fact that it is entirely open source.

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Keystone is an identity service written in Python that provides a pluggable back end, designed to support various protocols for authentication and authorisation (Basic Auth, OAuth, and OpenID, to give a few examples). Simply put, it allows clients to obtain security tokens to access different cloud services. Keystone was spawned from the OpenStack project and is designed to work with the OpenStack API.
The following tutorial is a brief walk-through the configuration of Keystone, based on the Essex-4 OpenStack release in Ubuntu 12.04.

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Canonical will release an application programmable interface (API) to bridge the gap between Openstack based clouds and those that run on Amazon Web Services. Read more here

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Canonical is proud to be sponsoring the OpenStack Conference which will be held at the Boston Intercontinental Hotel.
Jane Silber – CEO of Canonical will be delivering a keynote. More details coming soon!

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OpenStack is facing an important choice: does define a new set of API’s, one of many such efforts in cloud infrastructure, or does it build around the existing AWS API’s?  So far, OpenStack has had it both ways, with some new API work and also some AWS-based effort. I’m writing to make the case for a tighter definition of mission around the de facto standard infrastructure API’s of EC2, S3 …

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Canonical will be a sponsor at the EMEA OpenStack Day in London. This one-day event will feature an overview of the OpenStack technology for all audiences for the first half of the day, followed by a technical deep-dive session in the afternoon.Mark Baker, Server Product Manager for Canonical will also be taking part in the OpenStack Distribution panel session, scheduled for 10:15 – 11:00 am so please come and join us if you can!

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Canonical has announced that Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud will adopt the OpenStack cloud platform over Eucalyptus. In other Ubuntu-related news, an Ubuntu 11.04-based Linux Mint 11 release candidate (RC) was announced that opts for the GNOME 2.32.1 desktop environment over both Canonical’s Unity and GNOME 3.0.
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