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Rhys Davies
2 September 2021

The new Ubuntu membership process

Desktop Desktop

Applying for Ubuntu membership just became a lot easier. After a long discussion on Discourse, we’ve made the necessary changes to lower the technical barrier of entry to apply for Ubuntu membership. It’s now a simpler process with a focus on contribution, not on technical ability. In this post, I walk through the new process

Rhys Davies
2 September 2021

Alex Chalkias
2 September 2021

How Kubernetes 1.22 addresses industry needs

Article Cloud and server

On August 4th 2021, Kubernetes (K8s) upstream announced the general availability of Kubernetes 1.22, the latest version of the most popular container orchestration platform. At Canonical, we actively track upstream releases to ensure our Kubernetes distributions align with the latest innovations that developers and...

Alex Chalkias
2 September 2021

Maciej Mazur
2 September 2021

What is OpenRAN

Article Telecommunications

OpenRAN is a key technology making it’s way to telecom operators. Read for the answer what OpenRAN is and how RAN evolution looked like.

Maciej Mazur
2 September 2021

Tytus Kurek
2 September 2021

Where configuration management falls short: model-driven OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Have you ever installed OpenStack from scratch? I know, it sounds geeky, unnecessary and maybe even overcomplicated … It is after all 2021, OpenStack is mature, there are hundreds of OpenStack distributions available out there, configuration management tools are all the way around and installing OpenStack from scratch...

Tytus Kurek
2 September 2021

liam zheng
1 September 2021

Introducing UbuCon Asia 2021: The First Ubuntu Conference in Asia

Article Community

UbuCon or Ubuntu Conference is an event organized by the Ubuntu Communities. This event is for everyone who is involved and interested in Ubuntu, Linux, and other Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) technologies. This year, UbuCon Asia will be held and organized by Ubuntu Communities and FOSS communities in Asia....

liam zheng
1 September 2021

Maciej Mazur
1 September 2021

Open source telecom quarterly – new format

Article Telecommunications

Want to stay up to date with open source in telecom, cloud native teleco, initiatives like OpenRAN ? Search no more, we’ve got you covered.

Maciej Mazur
1 September 2021

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
1 September 2021

Cybersecurity with Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

The cybersecurity state of affairs can be described as too complex today. There is an enormous number of threats endangering sensitive data for the average IT team to cope with. Threats ranging from exposure of physical assets stored in an office, to “social engineering” attacks resulting in unauthorized access, or even...

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
1 September 2021

robgibbon
30 August 2021

Cloud PaaS through the lens of open source – opinion

Article Data Systems

Opinion piece by Rob Gibbon – Product Manager at Canonical. All views expressed are the author’s own. The open source perspective viz. PaaS Open source software, as the name suggests, is developed in the open. The software can be freely inspected by anyone, and can be freely patched as required to suit the security...

robgibbon
30 August 2021

Michele Mancioppi
30 August 2021

Model-driven observability: Taming alert storms

Article Charms

Model-driven observability and its strong notion of topology provide easy-to-apply alert management capabilities to avoid alert storms and help find root causes faster.

Michele Mancioppi
30 August 2021

Rhys Davies
27 August 2021

Winners of the 21.10 Wallpaper competition

Article Desktop

Congratulations to our winners! With over 200 submissions and several hundred voters, the competition was tough. But, the votes are in, and here are the winning wallpapers. The first two make it into the official release 21.10 image and are automatically entered into the runnings for 22.04. The other eight you see here will be

Rhys Davies
27 August 2021

robgibbon
27 August 2021

DataOps: keeping the data flowing with Model-driven Operations

Article Data Systems

DataOps: Prologue – why is it so hard? If you’ve ever lived DataOps, you’ll know that it’s a challenge at the best of times. A day in the life of a typical data engineering team involves securing, releasing, debugging and stabilising complex and oftentimes fragile data pipelines. These pipelines can involve many source...

robgibbon
27 August 2021

robgibbon
25 August 2021

Happy birthday – 30 Years of Linux

Article Desktop

Won’t be big Thirty years ago today, Linus Torvalds announced his free operating system to the world. As with many of the world’s greatest, Linux had humble beginnings as a very small pet project. The GNU was working on an ambitious free, public domain operating system but the project had been delayed, and enthusiasts were

robgibbon
25 August 2021

Canonical
24 August 2021

Atresmedia modernises Spain’s most popular streaming platform with Canonical Charmed Kubernetes

Article Canonical announcements

The streaming service for the leading communication group in Spain leaves behind outdated applications and adopts a microservices architecture enabled by Canonical. SPAIN, August 24, 2021— Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces that Atresmedia, the leading company in the Over-The-Top (OTT) services market in...

Canonical
24 August 2021

Omar Ali Amin
23 August 2021

Kubernetes Fully Managed – half the cost of AWS

Article Cloud and server

Simplifiying Kubernetes adoption – How can you run a fully managed Kubernetes in a private cloud at half the cost of Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

Omar Ali Amin
23 August 2021