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Joshua Powers
1 December 2017

Ubuntu Bionic: Netplan

Article Cloud and server

NetplanFor this week’s Bionic test blitz I am looking at Netplan! Netplan enables easily configuring networking on a system via YAML files. Netplan processes the YAML and generates the required configurations for either NetworkManager or systemd-network the system’s renderer.Netplan replaced ifupdown as the default...

Joshua Powers
1 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
30 November 2017

Ubuntu Core manages 25m data points a minute

Article Internet of Things

IMS Evolve’s systems monitor 25 million data points every minute of every day and manage almost 98,000 sites across 12 countries. Learn how they adopted Ubuntu Core on Dell Edge Gateways to run the cold-chain solutions of some of the most recognisable food retailers.

Sarah Dickinson
30 November 2017

David Callé
28 November 2017

How to write an Ubuntu tutorial

Article People and culture

Since we started building a learning platform at tutorials.ubuntu.com, we have published over 30 tutorials on a wide range of Ubuntu-related topics: for developers wanting to assess new technologies (such as installing Kubernetes or running Linux containers on Windows) and users (such as using the snap command and...

David Callé
28 November 2017

Stéphane Graber
27 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #25

Article Cloud and server

Introduction This week has been split between some upcoming feature work (infiniband and clustering), helping some new contributors get started with contributing to LXD and doing a lot of backports to the stable branches. Our stable branch backlog is now empty on all 3 projects and @brauner is now handling this for LXC...

Stéphane Graber
27 November 2017

Paul Gear
24 November 2017

Making NTP best practices easy with Juju charms

Article Cloud and server

NTP: a behind-the-scenes protocol Network Time Protocol is one of those oft-ignored-but-nonetheless-essential subsystems which is largely unknown, except to a select few. Those who know it well generally fall into the following categories: time geeks who work on protocol standardisation and implementation, enthusiasts...

Paul Gear
24 November 2017

Sergio Schvezov
22 November 2017

Announcing snapcraft 2.35

Article Desktop

The snapcraft team is pleased to announce that version 2.35 has been released. Contributions This release saw some excellent contributions from outside the snapcraft core team, and we want to give a shout out to those folks. A team thank you to: Mark Lee Michael Vogt James Beedy Aleix Pol Jeff Dickey Nathan Haines Chris

Sergio Schvezov
22 November 2017

Canonical
21 November 2017

Join us at the Ubuntu Enterprise Summit!

Article Cloud and server

Bloomberg, Walmart, eBay, Samsung, Dell. Ever wonder how some of the world’s largest enterprises run on Ubuntu? This December, we are hosting our first ever Ubuntu Enterprise Summit to tell you how and help guide your own organisation whether it be running the cloud in a large telco to deriving revenue from your next IoT

Canonical
21 November 2017

David Britton
21 November 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 21 Nov 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
21 November 2017

Canonical
21 November 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 (final) Released!

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Andres Rodriguez’s blog I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.3.0 (final) is now available! This new MAAS release introduces a set of exciting features and improvements to the overall user experience. It now becomes the focus of maintenance, as it fully replaces MAAS 2.2 In order to...

Canonical
21 November 2017

Stéphane Graber
20 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #24: LXD 2.20

Article Cloud and server

The highlight of this week was the release of LXD 2.20 which introduces a number of exciting new features. LXD 2.20 should now be available everywhere through both native packages and snap. We also started the process of deprecating the various LXD PPAs, see below for details. Our next milestone is LXD 2.21 in about

Stéphane Graber
20 November 2017

Canonical
20 November 2017

Introducing the UP² Grove IoT development kit with Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

As computing at the edge grows, so does the need to connect a flurry of IoT devices directly into a device that can do advanced analytics and processing. The whole journey from prototype to production is often bumpy, having to switch from a tangle of wires and development boards to production hardware: portability issues, lack

Canonical
20 November 2017

Sarah Dickinson
20 November 2017

Building a future-proofed IoT consumer device with brand stores

Article Internet of Things

When building or deploying any IoT device either in remote locations or consumer’s homes, it is now essential for manufacturers to consider and review how their devices can be future-proofed once it leaves their warehouses – such as update mechanisms and deploying security patches quickly. This is particularly so in the...

Sarah Dickinson
20 November 2017

Stephan Fabel
17 November 2017

Edging Closer – ODS Sydney

Article Cloud and server

Despite the fact that OpenStack’s mission statement has not fundamentally changed since the inception of the project in 2010, we have found many different interpretations of the technology through the years. One of them was that OpenStack would be an all-inclusive anything-as-a-service, in a striking parallel to the...

Stephan Fabel
17 November 2017

Canonical
16 November 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: November 16, 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
16 November 2017