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Ubuntu Helps Accelerate OpenStack Deployments

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 17, 2012

Mark Shuttleworth is a man with vision. He had the vision to create the Ubuntu Linux project and he had the vision to be the first commercial Linux distro to embrace OpenStack fully…

To prove his point about the ease of upgrading, Shuttleworth, always the show-man, did a live demo where he migrated an OpenStack Essex release to the new Folsom release. The upgrade was done on a live production server running live in-service applications. The whole process was completed in just three minutes.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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