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Tytus Kurek
14 August 2019

OpenStack Charms 19.07 – Percona Cluster Cold Start, DVR SNAT and more

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 19.07. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. Let’s talk about a few notable ones. Percona cluster cold start The percona-cluster charm now contains a new...

Tytus Kurek
14 August 2019

Andres Rodriguez
12 August 2019

Provisioning ESXi with MAAS: An overview

Article Cloud and server

MAAS has supported provisioning ESXi starting from MAAS 2.5. However, MAAS 2.6 has expanded its support and provides new features that significantly improves the provisioning experience. What is supported? The support MAAS provides for provisioning an operating system varies depending on the operating system in use....

Andres Rodriguez
12 August 2019

Sarah Dickinson
12 August 2019

Julia and Jeff discover the ease of snaps at the Snapcraft Summit

Desktop Desktop

Julia is an open source, high-level, general-purpose, dynamic programming language designed for numerical analysis and computational science, launched in 2012. It solves the “two language” problem: developers can use Julia for both computational and interactive work, instead of needing to work with two different...

Sarah Dickinson
12 August 2019

Canonical
9 August 2019

Enhanced Livepatch desktop integration available with Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

Article Desktop

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS has just been released. For the Desktop, newer stable versions of GNOME components have been included, as well as a new feature – Livepatch desktop integration. As usual with LTS point releases, the main changes are a refreshed hardware enablement stack (newer versions of the kernel, xorg & drivers)...

Canonical
9 August 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
8 August 2019

Slow snap? Trace-exec to the rescue!

Article Desktop

Slow applications are never fun. But not knowing why an application is not behaving correctly can be even more frustrating. A well-designed system that can diagnose performance or startup issues and inform the user about the problem goes a long way toward mitigating the frustration, and may even help resolve the root...

Igor Ljubuncic
8 August 2019

Jeremie Deray
7 August 2019

Creating a ROS 2 CLI command and verb

Article Robotics

Following our previous post on ROS 2 CLI (Command Line Interface), we will see here how one can extend the set of existing CLI tools by introducing a new command and its related verb(s). As support for this tutorial, we will create a ‘Hello World’ example so that the new command will be hello and

Jeremie Deray
7 August 2019

didrocks
7 August 2019

Enhancing our ZFS support on Ubuntu 19.10 – an introduction

Article Desktop

Ubuntu has supported ZFS as an option for some time. We started with a file-based ZFS pool on Ubuntu 15.10, then delivered it as a FS container in 16.04, and recommended it for the fastest and most reliable container experience on LXD. We have also created some dedicated tutorials for users who want to become

didrocks
7 August 2019

Chad Smith
6 August 2019

Ubuntu Server development summary – 06 August 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
6 August 2019

Tytus Kurek
6 August 2019

Declarative vs Imperative: DevOps done right

Article Cloud and server

Deciding whether to automate workloads, while designing your ICT infrastructure, is trivial. It’s 2019 and automation is everywhere around. However, deciding which DevOps paradigm to choose and which tool to use, may not be that obvious. In order to assist you with the ‘declarative vs imperative’ decision-making...

Tytus Kurek
6 August 2019

Canonical
5 August 2019

Charmed Kubernetes update for upstream API server vulnerability

Article Cloud and server

An upstream Kubernetes vulnerability (CVE-2019-11247) has been identified where the API server mistakenly allows access to a cluster-scoped custom resource, if the request is made as if the resource were namespaced. Authorisations for the resource accessed in this manner are enforced using roles and role bindings within...

Canonical
5 August 2019

Peter Mahnke
2 August 2019

Design and Web team summary – 2 August 2019

Article Ubuntu

This iteration was fairly light iteration for the Web & design team at Canonical as we had a fair few people on holidays as well as a group who has gone to Toronto for our mid-cycle roadmap sprint. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that

Peter Mahnke
2 August 2019

Canonical
31 July 2019

Digital signage platform Xibo launches as a snap

Article Internet of Things

The open source digital signage platform, Xibo, is now available as a snap – the universal Linux app packaging format. Xibo provides a comprehensive suite of digital signage products, with its Content Management System (CMS) at the heart of this experience-led offering. Xibo for Linux is completely free and natively...

Canonical
31 July 2019

Canonical
30 July 2019

Canonical Design Blog: Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS now available

Article Ubuntu

AWS and Canonical today announce the public release of Amazon EC2 Hibernation support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Amazon EC2 Hibernation gives you the ability to launch Amazon EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then quickly br

Canonical
30 July 2019

Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS now available

Cloud Cloud and server

AWS and Canonical today announce the public release of Amazon EC2 Hibernation support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Amazon EC2 Hibernation gives you the ability to launch Amazon EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then quickly bring them back to life when you need them. Applications pick up exactly where...

Canonical
30 July 2019