Author: dannf

  • Bike MS 2019

    I’m riding Bike MS Colorado as part of Team Left Hand again this year. We’ll do 100 miles from Denver to Fort Collins, finishing over the Horsetooth Reservoir dam. The next day, we’ll do 76 miles to return to Denver. I’d appreciate your support – even just $5 would be awesome. Donate here. Here’s what…

  • Deploying Ubuntu OpenStack to ARM64 servers

    At Canonical, we’ve been doing work to make sure Ubuntu OpenStack deploys on ARM servers as easily as on x86. Whether you have Qualcomm 2400 REP boards, Cavium ThunderX boards, HiSilicon D05 boards, or other Ubuntu  Certified server hardware, you can go from bare metal to a working OpenStack in minutes! The following tutorial will walk…

  • arm64 trusty images now work on GICv3 hosts

    Ubuntu 14.04 originally shipped with a 4.4-based kernel, which didn’t yet support booting as a KVM guest on GICv3 systems. This meant you could only boot trusty instances on GICv2-based hosts. However, thanks to our Foundations team, Ubuntu 14.04 (‘trusty’)/arm64 images have switched to using the Ubuntu HWE kernel. This means you can now run Ubuntu 14.04…

  • New blog

    I made a new blog. This is it. That’s a picture of my old sofa I took for Craig’s list.