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Igor Ljubuncic
24 October 2019

Bauh is a nifty snap manager

Article Desktop

If you’re looking for an easy, non-techie way to install snaps, you want a simple store-like utility. Snap integration is available in both GNOME Software and KDE Discover, which cover a large portion of the Linux user base. However, in distributions and desktop environments that do not natively provide a snap-capable...

Igor Ljubuncic
24 October 2019

Sarah Dickinson
24 October 2019

FinTechs discuss security, regulation and innovation at New York City roundtable

Article Cloud and server

Earlier this month, Canonical, IBM and FinTech specialists Medici held a joint roundtable in New York for executives within the financial services sector to hear and discuss their pain points, the most prominent emerging technologies and what the future holds. Entitled ‘Graduating from FinTech to FinServ’, the...

Sarah Dickinson
24 October 2019

Peter Jose De Sousa
24 October 2019

Kubernetes storage options: StorageOS

Article Kubernetes

Kubernetes offers a range of storage solutions out of the box, but the majority of these are specific to cloud providers, for example, AWS or Google Cloud. This means that the options left for bare metal deployments are Ceph, NFS or local. “StorageOS is a newcomer to this area providing an easy to setup solution

Peter Jose De Sousa
24 October 2019

Lech Sandecki
22 October 2019

How Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure delivers top-notch Linux security

Article Ubuntu

Linux security is central to each release of Ubuntu, the most widely-used Linux distribution. With Ubuntu’s predictable six-month release cycle, users know when to expect the latest upstream open source capabilities and security. Long Term Support (LTS) vs Interim releases Every two years in April, a Long Term Support...

Lech Sandecki
22 October 2019

anaqvi
22 October 2019

NVIDIA GPU Operator – Simplifying AI/ML Deployments on the Canonical Platform

Article Ubuntu

Leveraging Kubernetes for AI deployments is becoming increasingly popular. Chances are if your business is involved in AI/ML with Kubernetes you are using tools like Kubeflow to reduce complexity, costs and deployment time. Or, you may be missing out! With AI/ML being the tech topics of the world, GPUs play a critical...

anaqvi
22 October 2019

Camille Rodriguez
17 October 2019

Kubernetes on a single machine

Article Cloud and server

As developers, we do not always have access to a production-like environment to test new features and run proof-of-concepts. This is why it can be very interesting to deploy Kubernetes on a single machine. Of course, there is the new microk8s snap that allows a super fast deployment of a k8s cluster on a laptop

Camille Rodriguez
17 October 2019

Canonical
17 October 2019

Ubuntu 19.10 delivers Kubernetes at the edge, multi-cloud infrastructure economics and an integrated AI/ML developer experience

Article AI

17th October 2019: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 19.10 with a focus on accelerating developer productivity in AI/ML, new edge capabilities for MicroK8s and delivering the fastest GNOME desktop performance. “In the fifteen years since the first Ubuntu release, we have seen Ubuntu evolve from the...

Canonical
17 October 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
17 October 2019

Snaptastic – elementary OS snap manager

Article Desktop

An interesting aspect in the life of any technology is how it propagates. Like organisms in nature, technology follows evolutionary patterns, and sometimes, it can be difficult predicting them. But their observation can be quite telling. Case in point, Snaptastic on elementary OS. Snaptastic is a graphical snap manager...

Igor Ljubuncic
17 October 2019

Galem KAYO
17 October 2019

Embedded system cross-development with Ubuntu Core

Article DevOps

There are fundamental differences between developing general-purpose software applications and making software for embedded systems. Embedded systems software runs on resource-constrained hardware, in contrast to general-purpose server or client applications that run on more capable hardware. For this reason, embedded...

Galem KAYO
17 October 2019

Chad Smith
16 October 2019

Ubuntu Server development summary – 16 October 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
16 October 2019

Tytus Kurek
16 October 2019

Ansible vs Terraform vs Juju: Competition or cooperation?

Article DevOps

Ansible vs Terraform vs Juju vs Chef vs SaltStack vs Puppet vs CloudFormation – there are so many tools available out there. What are these tools? Do I need all of them? Are they competing with each other or cooperating? The answer is not really straightforward. It usually depends on your needs and the particular

Tytus Kurek
16 October 2019

Canonical
15 October 2019

Grace Hopper Conference 2019

Article People and culture

We are so excited about what just happened that we felt we should tell everyone about it! A group of 24 of us at Canonical from various teams including Sales, HR and Engineering, attended the Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando, Florida. This year, it was an epic gathering of more than 26,000 people from all

Canonical
15 October 2019

Peter Mahnke
15 October 2019

Design and Web team summary – 11 October 2019

Article Design

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. This cycle we had two sprints. The first was a web performance workshop run by the amazing Harry Roberts. It was a whirlwind two days where we learned a lot about networking, browsers, font loading and more. We also spent

Peter Mahnke
15 October 2019

anaqvi
11 October 2019

Onboarding edge applications on the dev environment

Edge Cloud Internet of Things

Adoption of edge computing is taking hold as organisations realise the need for highly distributed applications, services and data at the extremes of a network. Whereas data historically travelled back to a centralised location, data processing can now occur locally allowing for real-time analytics, improved...

anaqvi
11 October 2019