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Igor Ljubuncic
2 July 2020

A blast from the past – Shutter

Article Desktop

The wheel of software turns, and apps come and go. But the end of development does not always mean the end of usefulness. Sometimes, programs stubbornly remain around, offering a complete experience that can withstand the test of time. Several weeks ago, we talked about how you can preserve old applications with snaps....

Igor Ljubuncic
2 July 2020

Rui Vasconcelos
2 July 2020

Building Kubeflow pipelines: Data science workflows on Kubernetes – Part 2

Article AI

This blog series is part of the joint collaboration between Canonical and Manceps. Visit our AI consulting and delivery services page to know more. Introduction Kubeflow Pipelines are a great way to build portable, scalable machine learning workflows. It is a part of the Kubeflow project that aims to reduce the...

Rui Vasconcelos
2 July 2020

Alex Chalkias
2 July 2020

Encryption at rest with Ceph

Article Ceph

Do you have a big data center? Do you have terabytes of confidential data stored in that data center? Are you worried that your data might be exposed to malicious attacks? One of the most prominent security features of storage solutions is encryption at rest. This blog will explain this in more detail and how

Alex Chalkias
2 July 2020

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
29 June 2020

Data centre automation for HPC

Webinar Cloud and server

Friction points in HPC DevOps Many High Performance Computing (HPC) setups are still handcrafted configurations where tuning changes can take days or weeks. This is because the more you tune and optimise something, the more bespoke and unique it is, and the more unique something is, the lower the chances that things...

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
29 June 2020

sidfaber
29 June 2020

Installing ROS in LXD Containers

Article Cloud and server

It’s the season for updates. The last few weeks have ushered in ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2 Foxy, both of which target the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa. As always, new releases come with trepidation: how can I install new software and test compatibility, yet keep my own environment stable until I know

sidfaber
29 June 2020

robgibbon
29 June 2020

What is Apache Kafka?

Article Cloud and server

Discover Charmed Kafka Everyone hates waiting in a queue. On the other hand, when you’re routing an absolute storm of event data around a cloud environment, message queues are your best friend. Enter Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is a free, open source event streaming platform that enables you to create queues for...

robgibbon
29 June 2020

Alan Pope
25 June 2020

Split Personality Snaps

Article Internet of Things

Broadly speaking, most snaps in the Snap Store fall into one of two categories, desktop applications and server daemons. The graphical applications such as Chromium and Spotify use desktop files, which ensure they can be opened on demand by any user via a menu or launcher. The server applications such as NextCloud and...

Alan Pope
25 June 2020

Adi Singh
25 June 2020

Open source holds the key to autonomous vehicles

Article Internet of Things

A growing number of car companies have made their autonomous vehicle (AV) datasets public in recent years. Daimler fueled the trend by making its Cityscapes dataset freely available in 2016. Baidu and Aptiv respectively shared the ApolloScapes and nuScenes datasets in 2018. Lyft, Waymo and Argo followed suit in 2019....

Adi Singh
25 June 2020

Alex Chalkias
25 June 2020

Ceph storage on VMware

Article Ceph

If you were thinking that nothing will change in your VMware data centre in the following years, think again. Data centre storage is experiencing a paradigm shift. Software-defined storage solutions, such as Ceph, bring flexibility and reduce operational costs. As a result, Ceph storage on VMware has the potential to...

Alex Chalkias
25 June 2020

Rui Vasconcelos
24 June 2020

Demystifying Kubeflow pipelines: Data science workflows on Kubernetes – Part 1

Article AI

Kubeflow Pipelines are a great way to build portable, scalable machine learning workflows. It is one part of a larger Kubeflow ecosystem that aims to reduce the complexity and time involved with training and deploying machine learning models at scale. In this blog series, we demystify Kubeflow pipelines and showcase...

Rui Vasconcelos
24 June 2020

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
24 June 2020

MAAS 2.8 – new features

Article MAAS

What’s new? This new release of MAAS brings three key new benefits: Virtual machines with LXD (Beta) Tighter, more responsive UX External/remote PostgreSQL database If you know what you want, go to maas.io/install, otherwise let’s dive in and explore these further. Virtual machines (VMs) with LXD (Beta) MAAS 2.8 can set...

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
24 June 2020

anastasiavalti
24 June 2020

Ubuntu Masters 3: the community expands

Article Ubuntu

What is Ubuntu Masters? The Ubuntu Masters conference stemmed from a vision to bring the engineering community together to freely exchange innovative ideas, in the spirit of open source. After two hugely successful conferences, connecting IT teams across industries and countries, and featuring speakers from innovators...

anastasiavalti
24 June 2020

esj
24 June 2020

AMD EPYC Rome support in Ubuntu Server

Article Cloud and server

The second generation of AMD EPYC central processing unit (CPU), codenamed Rome, provides outstanding performance and “hardened at the code” security. It was launched in 2019 and has already been widely adopted. Support for AMD EPYC Rome has been merged to the Linux kernel starting with 5.4 series. Therefore, all Ubuntu...

esj
24 June 2020

liam zheng
24 June 2020

Building an Ubuntu Core 18 image for Nitrogen i.MX6 board

Article Internet of Things

This article is written by Taiten Peng. Have you got i.MX6 hardware and are wondering how Ubuntu Core would run on it? In this blog, we will build an Ubuntu Core 18 image with the generic Ubuntu kernel for an i.MX6 based Boundary Devices board. The Nitrogen6X hardware from Boundary Device is well supported upstream

liam zheng
24 June 2020