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Kris Sharma
12 January 2021

PostgreSQL: The PgMiner botnet attacks & Postgres database security

Article Ubuntu

Assuring the security of PostgreSQL and all open source database systems is critical as many learned with the PgMiner botnet attacks in December 2020. Having an understanding of, and visibility into, how these attacks happen and following standard best practices is the best way to make sure that your data is not at risk. This

Kris Sharma
12 January 2021

Alan Pope
7 January 2021

Time to Branch Out

Article Ubuntu

Branches are an under-used but important feature of the Snap Store publishing capabilities. Indeed as I’m writing this post, I’ve never had a need to use the feature, and I’ve been publishing snaps for four and a half years. Let’s fix that! Start with acorns The rationale for branches is simple. Each snap in the

Alan Pope
7 January 2021

anastasiavalti
6 January 2021

OpenStack for telcos by Canonical

Article Ubuntu

Learn how Charmed OpenStack offers telcos fast networking, security, stability of performance, and optimal SDN and storage options.

anastasiavalti
6 January 2021

Bill Wear
6 January 2021

Improving CLI output with jq

MAAS Cloud and server

Welcome back to our series on MAAS CLI operations. In our previous post, we learned how to acquire and deploy machines using the MAAS CLI. It was also evident that the JSON output from the allocate and deploy commands was very lengthy for even one machine — so you can imagine how large a list

Bill Wear
6 January 2021

Canonical
4 January 2021

Juju vs Infrastructure as Code Tools

Article Cloud and server

Summary Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, like Terraform, CloudFormation and Pulumi, ensure easily reproducible infrastructure setups. Juju focuses on the lifecycle and relations of applications. Juju and IaC tools mostly operate on different layers of abstraction. Use Juju to manage any application, from simple web...

Canonical
4 January 2021

Igor Ljubuncic
31 December 2020

Snaps and themes – on the path to seamless desktop integration

Article Desktop

Alongside performance, theming is one of the primary concerns for desktop snap users. People expect applications bundled inside snaps to look and behave just like their counterparts shipped and packaged in the traditional way in their Linux distributions, and any discrepancy in this space can lead to a degraded user...

Igor Ljubuncic
31 December 2020

Claudio Gomboli
29 December 2020

Design and Web team summary – 29 December 2020

Article Design

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s promotional sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more. We designed and added the new Android in the cloud on arm native...

Claudio Gomboli
29 December 2020

Ian Johnson
23 December 2020

Why LZO was chosen as the new compression method

Article Desktop

Everyone wants fast applications. Recently, we provided a mechanism to make snap applications launch faster by using the LZO format. We introduced this change because users reported desktop snaps starting more slowly than the same applications distributed via traditional, native Linux packaging formats like Deb or RPM....

Ian Johnson
23 December 2020

Wajeeha Hamid
18 December 2020

What’s new in Open Source MANO: multi-cloud orchestration, operator lifecycle management, and more..

Article Ubuntu

Open source MANO (OSM) community recently added two more bricks in the wall of NFV orchestration events: OSM Release NINE and OSM#10 Hackfest. The community has come a long way to mature OSM into its 9th version. A toast to all the system integrators, network operators, researchers, and VNF vendors who have hit the home

Wajeeha Hamid
18 December 2020

Andreea Munteanu
17 December 2020

Telco and Ubuntu: 2020 roundup

Article Ubuntu

2021 is around the corner and we had such a tremendous journey this year. Like many others, at Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, we lived different times and maybe more than ever we saw how important it was to stay connected. Therefore, Canonical continued to innovate in the telco world and brought Ubuntu closer to

Andreea Munteanu
17 December 2020

Valentin Viennot
16 December 2020

Use Amazon ECR Public and EKS-D to deploy LTS Docker Images

Article Cloud and server

It’s re:invent season already, and we had exciting news to announce with Amazon this year. With all these remote sessions, what’s better than a quick lab to play with the new stuff? It’s starting to feel like Christmas already! We’re going to kill two birds with one stone (just an idiom, keep reading) and experiment

Valentin Viennot
16 December 2020

Rhys Davies
15 December 2020

Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu: 2020 roundup

Article Internet of Things

We’re almost there, 2021 is just around the corner. Like many others, we at Canonical have a deep appreciation for all things Raspberry Pi. We see the good they do and the joy they bring and can’t help but be impressed. This year marks the beginning of a stronger collaboration between the folks at Raspberry

Rhys Davies
15 December 2020

Bill Wear
10 December 2020

MAAS 2.9 is now available

MAAS Ubuntu

Canonical is happy to announce that MAAS 2.9 is now available. We’ll get to the details of installing it in just a moment, but first, let’s walk through a brief overview of the new features and fixes. Later on in this post, we’ll cover some of these features in much more detail. New features &

Bill Wear
10 December 2020

Alan Pope
10 December 2020

Snaps: How we got here

Article Desktop

I’m celebrating nine years at Canonical, and coming up on 15 years since I started contributing to Ubuntu in the community. It’s been quite the ride, helping build, support and advocate for the most popular Linux desktop, and most used Linux distribution in the cloud. Over those years, we’ve strived to make it easy for

Alan Pope
10 December 2020