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didrocks
26 May 2020

ZFS focus on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: what’s new?

Article Desktop

Ubuntu has supported ZFS as an option for some time. In 19.10, we introduced experimental support on the desktop. As explained, having a ZFS on root option on our desktop was only a first step in what we want to achieve by adopting this combined file system and logical volume manager. I strongly suggest you read

didrocks
26 May 2020

Sohini Bianka Roy
22 May 2020

Kubernetes on Windows with MicroK8s and WSL 2

Article Cloud and server

Kubernetes has enjoyed an unparalleled 5-year growth that has revolutionised the IT industry. It has become a key factor for organisations to be successful and have a competitive advantage. In order to optimise these benefits, organisations look for new ways to reduce Kubernetes complexity and get interoperability with...

Sohini Bianka Roy
22 May 2020

Canonical
21 May 2020

Kubernetes GitOps with Azure Arc and Charmed Kubernetes

Article Canonical announcements

This week, Canonical announced the integration of Charmed Kubernetes with Microsoft Azure Arc. This integration provides businesses with a centralised place to manage their Kubernetes clusters and deploy their applications at scale, from cloud to the edge. The Azure Arc dashboard enables management and governance of...

Canonical
21 May 2020

anastasiavalti
21 May 2020

Innovating and scaling efficiently with Kubernetes and MicroK8s

Article Cloud and server

Watch on demand With the benefits of Kubernetes now well established in the containerisation space, its adoption continues to exponentially increase. However, as developers and enterprises alike turn to Kubernetes for more and more types of use cases, available Kubernetes solutions often fail to meet their exact needs....

anastasiavalti
21 May 2020

Canonical
20 May 2020

FIPS 140-2 certification for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical has received FIPS 140-2, Level 1 certification for cryptographic modules in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, with FIPS-validated OpenSSL-1.1.1. modules included. This certification enables organisations to meet compliance requirements within the public sector, healthcare and finance industries when utilising Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

Canonical
20 May 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
20 May 2020

Experimental feature: progressive releases

Article Cloud and server

“No plan survives contact with the enemy.” This is a quote famously attributed to the Prussian field marshal Helmuth von Moltke. It is also quite applicable to software development: “No code survives contact with the user.” In mission-critical environments, staggered deployments of software are a crucial part of...

Igor Ljubuncic
20 May 2020

Rhys Davies
20 May 2020

The Eclipse 2020 IoT developer survey is live

Article Internet of Things

The IoT Developer Survey, by The Eclipse Foundation, is the industry’s largest developer survey. These surveys centralise useful, high-level information about the IoT industry. The goal of the survey is to present a better understanding of the IoT industry; the challenges developers face, and to provide insight into...

Rhys Davies
20 May 2020

haydenb
19 May 2020

New GPU and GUI features announced for WSL at Build

Article Ubuntu

Microsoft Build, Microsoft’s annual developer conference, is taking place virtually May 19-20. Ubuntu will be featured throughout the event, in announcements of new WSL features, demos of cloud-native development on Microsoft Azure, and by presenters using Ubuntu desktop with native Microsoft applications like Teams,...

haydenb
19 May 2020

Tytus Kurek
18 May 2020

Managed private cloud cheaper than self-managed?

Article Cloud and server

Outsourcing private cloud operations can significantly accelerate the private cloud deployment process. Although most organisations are successful with the initial roll-out of the cloud, many struggle to operate it effectively post-deployment. This is because private cloud platforms, such as OpenStack, are known to be...

Tytus Kurek
18 May 2020

Canonical
13 May 2020

OpenStack Ussuri available on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS

Article Cloud and server

Canonical today announced the general availability of OpenStack Ussuri on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The most notable enhancements of today’s OpenStack upstream release are stabilisation efforts around the Open Virtual Networking (OVN) driver and the Masakari project which allow organisations to run highly...

Canonical
13 May 2020

Jeremie Deray
12 May 2020

How to set up TurtleBot3 in minutes with snaps (2/2)

Article Robotics

Welcome to part two of our TurtleBot3 set up, namely the turtlebot3c project. In part one, we rearranged the launch files and configuration files of the TurtleBot3 so that we have four entry points to our robot’s functionalities. One per application in our snap. Now it is time to build the snap so that it

Jeremie Deray
12 May 2020

Tytus Kurek
11 May 2020

Canonical at the 9th OSM Hackfest

Article OSM

To all telecommunications service providers, global system integrators, research institutions, OSM community members and innovators all over the world: heads-up! The 9th OSM Hackfest starts in a few weeks and Canonical will as always be there. We will lead hackfest sessions, answer any questions you may have and help...

Tytus Kurek
11 May 2020

Rhys Davies
8 May 2020

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is certified for the Raspberry Pi

Article Internet of Things

The release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS was April 23, 2020. On the same day, Canonical added full support for Ubuntu Server 20.04 on all of the Raspberry Pis that we certify. Users can flash 20.04 to their Raspberry Pi knowing Canonical guarantees it will ‘just work’ and can make the most out of all of

Rhys Davies
8 May 2020

Joshua Powers
8 May 2020

The New Ubuntu Server Guide

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog With the release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) the Ubuntu Server Guide has received a major set of updates and has moved to a new location on the Ubuntu website. The new location makes it much easier to read and contribute improvements. There is a link

Joshua Powers
8 May 2020