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Tim McNamara
5 December 2019

Web application development with Juju charms: an interview with Marc André Audet from Absolunet

Article Charms

“The best thing about Juju is that it is very flexible. It is easy to look for existing charms in the charm store and you adapt them to your needs.”

Tim McNamara
5 December 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
5 December 2019

Snapcraft now auto-detects missing dependencies

Article Desktop

When you build snaps, the process of composing a complete snapcraft.yaml file will usually revolve around three main activities: parts, build requirements and runtime components. Sometimes, you may discover that you’re missing certain libraries in the compilation stage, or that they are required for your application to...

Igor Ljubuncic
5 December 2019

Canonical
4 December 2019

Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services

Article Canonical announcements

New premium Ubuntu images with extended security, kernel live patching and more 4th December 2019 – Canonical today announced the availability of Ubuntu Pro images for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Available via AWS Marketplace, covering Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS, these new premium images allow enterprises...

Canonical
4 December 2019

Tytus Kurek
3 December 2019

What is Kata Containers and why should I care?

Article Cloud and server

Kata Containers can significantly improve the security and isolation of your container workloads. It combines the benefits of using a hypervisor, such as enhanced security, and container orchestration capabilities provided by Kubernetes. Together with Eric Erns from Intel, we have recently performed a webinar in which...

Tytus Kurek
3 December 2019

Alex Cattle
29 November 2019

Build smart display devices with Mir: fast to production, secure, open-source

Article Internet of Things

Industrial robots, home appliances, advertising screens, office information boards… devices of every type around us are getting connected. As they do, their screens turn from single purpose displays to reconfigurable, multi-purpose smart display. As the amount of code required to build these displays, the production...

Alex Cattle
29 November 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
28 November 2019

Productivity corner: free, versatile office suites in the Snap Store

Article Desktop

For the past few decades, the digital office formula has not changed much. It still revolves around three main components – text documents, data spreadsheets and visual slide decks, designed to convey a powerful business message. While simple in essence, this model is quite complex in practice, and choosing the best...

Igor Ljubuncic
28 November 2019

Chad Smith
26 November 2019

Ubuntu Server development summary – 26 November 2019

Article Cloud and server

Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team

Chad Smith
26 November 2019

Thibaut Rouffineau
26 November 2019

“Ubuntu at scale” roundtable at AWS re:Invent

Article Cloud and server

Let’s talk Ubuntu at AWS re:Invent! On Thursday 5th December AWS and Canonical are hosting an interactive roundtable from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at re-Invent, room Encore 3 at the Encore hotel, Las Vegas. This will be the opportunity to: Hear the latest news and announcements by AWS and Canonical Learn about best practices

Thibaut Rouffineau
26 November 2019

Robin Winslow
26 November 2019

Design and Web team summary – 22 November 2019

Article Design

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. Takeovers and engage pages This iteration we built two webinars with engage

Robin Winslow
26 November 2019

Galem KAYO
26 November 2019

Turning your Raspberry Pi 4 into an Edge Gateway (Part I)

Article Internet of Things

Developers get new opportunities to innovate with the emergence of edge computing. However, to unleash this innovation, form factors and software stacks suitable for hacking edge applications need to be made accessible. Canonical has enabled Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi 4 for this purpose. Furthermore, popular edge and...

Galem KAYO
26 November 2019

anaqvi
23 November 2019

KubeCon San Diego 2019 Flashback

Kubernetes Ubuntu

KubeCon San Diego 2019 was a blast; lot’s of sun, beer, food, amazing projects and learning opportunities! It was great to see the community come together for the love of all things Kubernetes. The Canonical booth was buzzing with excitement around MicroK8s, Multipass and Kubernetes clustering on that DIY Raspberry Pi...

anaqvi
23 November 2019

Tytus Kurek
22 November 2019

8th OSM Hackfest: the highlights

Article Telecommunications

The 8th OSM Hackfest is over, but the OSM (Open Source MANO) project continues to evolve and is now looking forward to landing release SEVEN. It was an exciting week in Lucca, Italy. We’ve seen a lot of interest from those who attended the event for the first time and a strong commitment from the

Tytus Kurek
22 November 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
21 November 2019

Snapcraft secret sauce: KDE neon extension

Article Desktop

Simplicity is the magic ingredient in any product design. For members of the KDE community, snap development has become that much simpler, thanks to the recent introduction of the KDE neon extension. Last year, we talked about the KDE build and content snaps, which can greatly speed the build of KDE application snaps and save

Igor Ljubuncic
21 November 2019

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
21 November 2019

The lifecycle of a component

Design Design

Vanilla Framework is a living design system for our products that will grow along with our organisation. Vanilla’s component library is used by many internal and external websites along with the cloud applications JAAS dashboard and MAAS UI. We release updates approximately every 2 weeks, either for bug fixes,...

Karl Waghorn-Moyce
21 November 2019