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Galem KAYO
21 November 2019

Canonical introduces Ubuntu to the industrial Mittelstand at SPS 2019

Article Internet of Things

Canonical is attending the Smart Product Solutions (SPS) trade fair in Nuremberg from November 26th to 28th. We are convening to the 30th edition of the trade fair for smart automation solutions alongside 1650 other exhibitors. Digital transformation in automation will be the main theme of SPS 2019, under the official...

Galem KAYO
21 November 2019

Canonical
20 November 2019

Canonical introduces Charmed OSM to enable telcos with network functions management and orchestration

Article Cloud and server

November 20, 2019: Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, today announced Charmed OSM – a pure upstream Open Source MANO (OSM) distribution designed for production-grade, highly available and scalable deployments. Charmed OSM provides telecommunications service providers (TSPs) with a generic approach to network functions...

Canonical
20 November 2019

Robin Winslow
19 November 2019

Avoiding dropped connections in nginx containers with “STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT”

Article Cloud and server

(Also published on my blog at robinwinslow.uk) Update: The default used in the official nginx docker image was changed from SIGTERM to SIGQUIT in November 2020, so this should no longer be an issue for Docker or Kubernetes users. nginx is a very popular web server. It may have just become the most popular web

Robin Winslow
19 November 2019

Francisco Jiménez Cabrera
15 November 2019

We reduced our Docker images by 60% with –no-install-recommends

Article Cloud and server

Here at Canonical, we use Dockerfiles on a daily basis for all our web projects. Something that caught our attention recently was the amount of space that we were using for each Docker image, and we realized that we were installing more dependencies than we needed. In this article, I’ll explain how we improved our

Francisco Jiménez Cabrera
15 November 2019

Alex Cattle
14 November 2019

Lessons learned from 100+ private cloud builds

Article Cloud and server

Building a private cloud based on OpenStack has typically been a complex process with uncertain build costs based on time and materials requiring specialised expertise and low-level Linux OS knowledge. To help enterprises overcome these challenges,Canonical offers Private Cloud Build to provide businesses with a fully...

Alex Cattle
14 November 2019

Canonical
14 November 2019

Canonical enhances Kubernetes reliability for edge, IoT and multi-cloud

Kubernetes Cloud and server

14 November 2019: Canonical today announced high-availability clustering in MicroK8s, the workstation and appliance Kubernetes, and enterprise SQL database integration for its multi-cloud Charmed Kubernetes. “The rapid rise of enterprise and edge Kubernetes creates a challenge for corporate IT, with thousands of edge...

Canonical
14 November 2019

Bill Wear
13 November 2019

foo.c

Article Cloud and server

I remember my first foo. It was September, 1974, on a PDP-11/40, in the second-floor lab at the local community college. It was an amazing experience for a fourteen-year-old, admitted at 12 to audit night classes because his dad was a part-time instructor and full-time polymath. I should warn you, I’m not the genius in

Bill Wear
13 November 2019

Peter Mahnke
13 November 2019

Design and Web team summary – 8 November 2019

Design Design

This was the final iteration before our roadmap sprint where we plan our 20.04 work. 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. New content We created a takeover and landing page a Kata Containers

Peter Mahnke
13 November 2019

Alex Murray
12 November 2019

Ubuntu updates to mitigate latest Intel hardware vulnerabilities

Article Cloud and server

Today, Intel announced a group of new vulnerabilities affecting various Intel CPUs and associated GPUs, known as TSX Asynchronous Abort (CVE-2019-11135), Intel® Processor Machine Check Error (CVE-2018-12207), and two Intel i915 graphics hardware vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-0155, CVE-2019-0154). TSX Asynchronous Abort...

Alex Murray
12 November 2019

Alan Pope
12 November 2019

Growing the Linux app Ecosystem at LAS 2019

Article Desktop

The third Linux Application Summit (LAS) kicks off this week in Barcelona, Spain. Formerly organised under the GNOME project, known as Libre Application Summit, the new LAS is a joint effort between the KDE and GNOME projects. The aim of the conference is to encourage the growth of a vibrant Linux application ecosystem....

Alan Pope
12 November 2019

Tytus Kurek
11 November 2019

Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai 2019: the highlights

Article Cloud and server

The Canonical team is getting back from the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai 2019 with a lot of excitement and a fresh view on the key projects from the OpenStack Foundation including OpenStack and Kata containers. Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai: Keynotes OpenStack remains a big thing and its adoption is...

Tytus Kurek
11 November 2019

Canonical
11 November 2019

Canonical at TechWeek Frankfurt

Article Cloud and server

Date: Nov 13-14Location: Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GermanyBooth: 957 The TechWeek Frankfurt trade show will explore solutions to technology challenges organisations face across cloud computing and security, DevOps practices, Big Data management and more. With these major infrastructure themes in mind, the Ubuntu and...

Canonical
11 November 2019

Thibaut Rouffineau
8 November 2019

Ubuntu at Kubecon Americas 2019, San Diego

Article Cloud and server

The Kubecon world tour is coming to its last stop of the year for Kubecon Americas 2019 in San Diego… and the Canonical / Ubuntu team will be present with Kubernetes in all its flavours from public cloud to private cloud, from powerful Intel Cores to ARM chipset, from single-node development machines to large clusters.

Thibaut Rouffineau
8 November 2019

Canonical
7 November 2019

Canonical collaborates with NVIDIA to accelerate enterprise AI adoption in multi-cloud environments and at the edge

Article AI

Enterprises currently face the challenge of how to adopt and integrate AI and ML into their operations effectively, at scale and with minimum complexity. In tandem, today’s AI workloads have become increasingly advanced and the compute power required to support them has exponentially increased. Canonical and NVIDIA...

Canonical
7 November 2019