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Today Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) has been released, this is a LTS release and as such the preferred choice for lots of sysadmin/devops folks like me.

In this release I’ve been involved in Cloudfoundry, but also in packaging puppet, mcollective, mcollective-plugins, rabbitmq-server, and ipxe. All of which I’m quite happy about, if you feel like yelling at someone you know where to find me.

This release also makes the official debut of juju as a stable technology, the slogan says its Devops Distilled but I see it more as a giant application deployer with amazing orchestration skills, all of them make it a great solution, which you can also mix up with your usual puppet and mcollective of course :)

Go ahead and take the tour, and start playing with it in the Cloud or on your computer.

Finally Ubuntu 11.10 has just been released, this is the last version before our next LTS (12.04) so it’s a big technological preview.

You can take an online tour here http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/

In this version I’ve contributed packages in mcollective, puppet and rabbitmq, but most of all I’ve been working in Openstack, Juju and Orchestra, have a look and enjoy! The next LTS will be very exciting.

We’ve been working very intensively these last three months with mcollective on Ubuntu, and it’ll be finally be available in natty, another great addition for this release alongside with cobbler.

Unfortunately, our plugins package didn’t make it on time for the natty release freeze, which makes mcollective on natty’s release on Apr 28th a bit limited, but we have the package available for your enjoyment \o/.

In order to be able to install mcollective-plugins into your system you should add this PPA by executing:
add-apt-repository ppa:lynxman/mcollective-1.0-plugins-natty

Once you added the new repo you can see all the plugins available by running apt-cache search mcollective-plugins and install them based on your mcollective needs.