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14 December 2017

UbuCon Europe: 27th, 28th, 29th of April 2018 in Gijón/Xixón, Spain

Article Cloud and server

The next Ubucon Europe will take place at the Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos in Gijón/Xixón (Asturias, Spain), the 27th, 28th & 29th of April 2018. The Antiguo Instituto was built in 1797 as a centre for scientific and technical education. Currently, it is a public space maintained and managed by the City Council and it has

Canonical
14 December 2017

kzapalowicz
14 December 2017

Canonical shows EdgeX on ARM

Article Edgex

Beginning in March, I have been assigned to the Linaro organisation to carry on the work with the LITE (Linaro IoT and Embedded) group by researching design and development of software for ARM-based gateway devices. One of my main focus points has been to investigate how complex it would be to run EdgeX on ARM.

kzapalowicz
14 December 2017

Canonical
14 December 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: December 14, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [email protected]...

Canonical
14 December 2017

Chris Johnston
13 December 2017

FIPS 140-2 Certified Modules for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Article Canonical announcements

We are pleased to announce that officially certified FIPS 140-2 level 1 cryptographic packages are now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu Advantage Advanced customers and as a separate, stand-alone product. In 2016 Canonical began the process of completing the Cryptographic Module Validation Program to obtain...

Chris Johnston
13 December 2017

David Britton
12 December 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 12 Dec 2017

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

David Britton
12 December 2017

Canonical
12 December 2017

Canonical helps DeNA lower operational cost of always-on service

Article Cloud and server

DeNA is one of the most popular mobile and online platforms in Japan, offering games, e-commerce, entertainment, healthcare, and automotive services. The always-on DeNA infrastructure is powered by Ubuntu. When Canonical released Livepatch in October 2016, with the ability to patch servers without downtime, DeNA saw an...

Canonical
12 December 2017

Stéphane Graber
12 December 2017

LXD Weekly Status #27

Article Cloud and server

Introduction This past week was incredibly busy and featureful for both LXC and LXD. We landed Infinband support in LXD, alongside new configuration keys to control the presence of /dev/lxd in the container and support for pre-migration of memory during container live-migration. That’s on top of a variety of bugfixes...

Stéphane Graber
12 December 2017

Canonical
11 December 2017

Silph Road embraces cloud and containers with Canonical

Case study Cloud and server

With massive user demand and with volunteer developers located all over the world, The Silph Road’s operations must be cost-effective, flexible, and scalable. This led the Pokémon GO network first to cloud, and then to containers and in both cases, Canonical ’s technology was the answer.

Canonical
11 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
11 December 2017

Rocket.chat achieves simplicity through snaps

Article Desktop

Switching to snaps, Rocket.Chat has been able to get its product into the hands of users with as few steps as possible, switching a multi-stage set-up process for a single command and instant installation.

Sarah Dickinson
11 December 2017

Canonical
7 December 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: December 7, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [email protected]...

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7 December 2017

Canonical
6 December 2017

Kernel Team Summary – December 6, 2017

Article Cloud and server

November 21 through December 04 Development (18.04) Every 6 months the Ubuntu Kernel Team is tasked to pick the kernel to be used in the next release. This is a difficult thing to do because we don’t definitively know what will be going into the upstream kernel over the next 6 months nor the quality

Canonical
6 December 2017

luciadecastro
6 December 2017

Commercetools’ next-generation ecommerce platform

Article Cloud and server

Using a Software-as-a-Service model, open source philosophy, and strong support of an API and microservices architecture, Commercetools enables their customers to rapidly build unique shopping experiences without having to change their entire IT ecosystem.

luciadecastro
6 December 2017

David Britton
5 December 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 05 Dec 2017

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

David Britton
5 December 2017

Canonical
5 December 2017

Canonical and Rancher Labs announce Kubernetes Cloud Native Platform

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Canonical and Rancher Labs announce joint Kubernetes Cloud Native Platform offering Kubecon, Austin, Texas – 5th Dec: Canonical, in partnership with Rancher Labs today announce a turn-key application delivery platform built on Ubuntu, Kubernetes, and Rancher 2.0. The new Cloud Native Platform will make it easy for...

Canonical
5 December 2017