Ubuntu launch Oct 13
By Sumir Singh
 
The latest iteration of products, tools and services that help businesses deploy open-source cloud-oriented infrastructure with Ubuntu at the core have been announced. With Ubuntu 11.10 for desktop, server and cloud, Canonical delivers open platform solutions for all key parts of business technology infrastructure. Ubuntu 11.10 will be published on October 13, 2011 for free public download.

The deployment, management and orchestration tools that DevOps practitioners need to embrace cloud computing are central to this platform. Ubuntu 11.10 introduces Juju (codenamed Ensemble during development) for service deployment and orchestration across multiple cloud infrastructures, large-scale bare-metal deployments and workstation-based service prototyping.

Juju enables infrastructure and service developers to describe the deployment and scaling requirements of their applications, simplifying and enhancing the dialogue between developers and ops teams. Juju can be referred to as “DevOps Distilled” because it brings such clarity to the development-deployment dialogue and process. Juju simplifies deployment across multiple cloud providers and farms of physical servers running cloud-style workloads such as Hadoop.

This is the final release prior to Ubuntu’s next Long Term Support (LTS) release, due in April next year. “Ubuntu 11.10 gives forward-looking companies a chance to road-test the cloud and desktop technologies that will change the game for IT cost and performance” said Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical. “We’re thrilled to deliver multiple firsts with this release: a technology pre for the ARM architecture on servers, cloud infrastructure and Juju service orchestration in the box.”

You can download the software on Oct 13 at this link