Canonical’s Stripped-Down “Snappy” Ubuntu Comes To Google’s Compute Engine — techcrunch.com

A week ago, Canonical released the first alpha version of its new minimalist “Snappy” edition of Ubuntu Core for container farms. To the surprise of many, the launch partner for Snappy was Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. Starting today, however, you will also be able to use this version of Ubuntu on Google’s Compute Engine. Google has clearly made support for containers a major focus of its cloud computing efforts (and more so than any of its competitors), so today’s announcement doesn’t come as a big surprise.

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