14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical and Oracle, two companies that have a vested interest in the development of OpenStack, have reached an agreement that would allow fully supported guests on each other's respective OpenStack instances.
Canonical built Ubuntu with OpenStack in mind. Right now, its developers are saying that Ubuntu is the most popular operating system for OpenStack, and it's also one of the fastest ones available.
It also helps a lot that Canonical just released Ubuntu 14.04 LTS a few months ago and promised that the support for OpenStack would continue as long as the operating system is maintained, which is for a period of five years.
Oracle and Canonical to collaborate for OpenStack integration
"Canonical and Oracle are collaborating to offer customers support for both Ubuntu and Oracle Linux as fully supported guests on one another's respective OpenStack offerings. As part of this collaboration, Canonical will support Ubuntu as a guest OS on Oracle Linux OpenStack, and Oracle will support Oracle Linux as a guest OS on Ubuntu OpenStack. Canonical will test Oracle Linux as a guest OS in its OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) program. This gives customers the assurance the configuration is tested and supported by both organisations."
"Canonical has partnered with Oracle to further the principles of OpenStack interoperability, quality, openness and customer choice - all principles which Oracle, Canonical, its customers, and the OpenStack community value. Canonical's customers that are already running Ubuntu OpenStack in production, can now add Oracle Linux guest workloads to that cloud with the knowledge that they continue to have a fully supported, enterprise-grade cloud," reads the announcement from Canonical.
With the Ubuntu OpenStack tool, users are able to build a cloud service on OpenStack. Ubuntu is one of the of most used OSes for this specific purpose on OpenStack, with more that 50% of users.
By entering a partnership with Canonical, Oracle Linux users will be able to deploy a guest inside an Ubuntu OpenStack environment. The system works both ways and Ubuntu users will be able to do the same with Oracle Linux.
Oracle has recently released Oracle OpenStack Distribution, which comes with support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. Also, the support is included with Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Premier Support at no additional cost. This latest Oracle OpenStack Distribution is called Havana. It has yet to reach GA status (general availability), but that will happen very soon.