CANONICAL HAS RELEASED Ubuntu Server 14.10 for data centre server and cloud applications, offering its latest technology for scale-out infrastructure.
The British software company claims that this latest release of Ubuntu Server features the fastest, mostsecure hypervisors available on bare metal, as well as the latest in container technologies with Docker 1.2.
Canonical says that Ubuntu Server 14.10 with Docker 1.2 is unique in that it offers user-level container management and includes support that enables higher density cloud operations than a virtualisation layer.
The firm is targeting large enterprises that want to deploy what it calls "scale-out" cloud computing with this release.
Canonical says that Ubuntu 14.10 includes some of the most valuable and complex cloud software technologies in use today, including Cloud Foundry, ElasticSearch, Hadoop with Hive and PigLatin as well as real-time data analytics with Storm big data technology.
The firm says that improved GUI for Juju service orchestration greatly simplifies deployment and scaling of these complex software infrastructures on public and private clouds, or on bare metal hardware through what it terms "metal as a service" (MaaS), claiming that full deployments take just minutes.
Canonical noted that its MaaS 1.6 hardware provisioning tool in Ubuntu Server 14.10 now supports a number of different operating systems as guests, including Windows Server with Hyper-V, CentOS and openSUSE.
Canonical also said that Ubuntu 14.10 presents a consistent operating system experience for all major hardware architectures: ARM, ARM64, x86, x86-64 and Power8. ARM64 support is added for the launch of next-generation hyperscale, hyperdense servers from HP and AMD.
The firm added that Ubuntu Server 14.10 includes the addition of bcache, which adds disk acceleration to extend SSD performance to large, cost-effective rotating disks.
For cloud deployments, Canonical said that Ubuntu Server 14.10 includes the latest OpenStack Juno, which includes more granular policy controls for object storage as well as initial support for network function virtualisation.
Ubuntu Server 14.10 is available to download at the Ubuntu website from 23 October. µ
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