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Igor Ljubuncic
17 January 2019

Where eagles snap – snap security overview

Desktop Desktop

Quite often, security and functionality are two opposing forces. Vendors are trapped in a zero-sum game between providing their users as much freedom in the software they use and limiting said freedom to create tightly controlled and secure products. But this does not have be the case. For the last several years, Linux...

Igor Ljubuncic
17 January 2019

Canonical
16 January 2019

MAAS 2.5 : Growing the ecosystem and support for KVM micro-clouds

Article Cloud and server

Our latest release makes for a very exciting point in the MAAS evolution. As datacenter (DC) infrastructure grows at unparalleled scale fueled by new applications and services such as connected autonomous cars, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) and IoT, the need for automated bare metal provisioning has never been more...

Canonical
16 January 2019

Martin Wimpress
14 January 2019

Fresh Snaps from December 2018

Article Desktop

Another month passes and we’ve got a collection of applications which crossed our “desk” (Twitter feed) during December 2018. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. 1. travis Travis CI Developers! Get the snap of the ubiquitous Travis CI command line client for Linux that works with any Travis CI setup

Martin Wimpress
14 January 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
10 January 2019

Snap up your development – Tools for making the snap trek easier

Desktop Desktop

Software development is what happens in between users and bug reports. Niccolo Machiavelli In an ideal world, developers would be able to create new applications without any errors, and live happily ever after. Unfortunately, errors, warnings and bugs are an inseparable part of the process. Sometimes, these problems are...

Igor Ljubuncic
10 January 2019

Sarah Dickinson
9 January 2019

Apellix engineers safer work environments with Ubuntu powered aerial robotics

Article Internet of Things

In 2016, 16% of all workplace deaths in the US were attributed to falls. Apellix, a Florida-based start up, who specialise in aerial robotics aims to reduce this number by using their drones in place of workers to complete tasks in elevated or dangerous environments. In tandem, these same aerial robotics can also reduce the

Sarah Dickinson
9 January 2019

Chad Smith
8 January 2019

Ubuntu Server development summary – 08 January 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
8 January 2019

Canonical
3 January 2019

Mark Shuttleworth on success with OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

As one of the founding members and most popular distributions in OpenStack the conferences, now the Open Infrastructure Summit, is a valuable event that Canonical uses to meet with the open source community. During the final OpenStack Summit, Mark Shuttleworth, CEO, Canonical spoke about success with OpenStack being...

Canonical
3 January 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
3 January 2019

Kata Containers – A form of art

Article Cloud and server

November was a productive month for us. As you’ve already glimpsed in the KDE snaps article, we hosted a Snapcraft Summit in our London offices, during which we worked with engineers from major companies on building snaps. Hailing from Intel, Julio Montes joined us to improve the Kata Containers snap, to make it easier for

Igor Ljubuncic
3 January 2019

Alan Pope
27 December 2018

Top Snaps in 2018

Desktop Desktop

With 2018 drawing to a close, and many of us spending with family during the holiday season, I thought we’d take a look back over some of our favourite Linux applications in the Snap Store. Some have been in the store for over a year, and a few landed only recently, but they’re all great.

Alan Pope
27 December 2018

Igor Ljubuncic
27 December 2018

I have a need, a need for snap

Desktop Desktop

Are snaps slow? Or slower than their classic counterparts (DEB or RPM, for instance)? This is a topic that comes up often in online discussions, related to various containerised application formats, including snaps. We thought this would be a good idea to run a detailed experiment to see what kind of numbers we get when

Igor Ljubuncic
27 December 2018

Canonical
27 December 2018

The evolution of Canonical at KubeCon

Article Cloud and server

Stephan Fabel, director of products at Canonical spoke to Swapnil Bhartiya from TFIR at KubeCon in Seattle about the evolution of Canonical at KubeCon, the excitement around MicroK8s and Kubernetes announcements.  The full interview can be watched below and can also be found on the TFIR site. 

Canonical
27 December 2018

Maximilian Ehlers
21 December 2018

Our Kubernetes deployment pipeline

Design Desktop

A few weeks ago I joined the web and design team here at Canonical, in the Base Squad, which is our backend team. One of the things that we are responsible for is deploying the code to our different staging and production environments. With multiple features being developed simultaneously, bugs being fixed, and some parts

Maximilian Ehlers
21 December 2018

Alan Pope
20 December 2018

Ubuntu Core Smart Speaker

Article Desktop

With the holidays coming up, many of us can expect to spend time with our friends and families, often listening to seasonal music, or indeed escaping the seasonal music! Whether you’re joining in or getting away from the crowd, this simple project can help. This is part one of a series of posts where I

Alan Pope
20 December 2018

Anthony Dillon
19 December 2018

Design and Web team summary – 19 December 2018

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. Base squad This week, the bulk of our work was on improving our internal system for employee reviews, but we found time to squeeze in a few other things: We also progressed with the initial work for moving our Juju documentation into

Anthony Dillon
19 December 2018

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