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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade vs extended security maintenance
By Lech Sandecki, 8 December 2020
Weighing the options with an Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus is transitioning from its five-year standard security maintenance window in...
How to switch the Docker container runtime to containerd with Charmed Kubernetes
By Canonical, 7 December 2020
This article describes how easy it is for users of Charmed Kubernetes to switch from the Docker container runtime to containerd. You may have heard that...
SUSE OpenStack Cloud reaches the end of life
By Tytus Kurek, 7 December 2020
Time passes by! A year has passed since SUSE announced its decision to discontinue SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and many enterprises are already affected. This is...
When you need the numbers just right – benchmark and profiling applications in the Snap Store
By Igor Ljubuncic, 4 December 2020
The world of software is a vast and complex one, often too difficult to easily assess by human intuition alone. Which is why detailed and accurate...
Migrating the Launchpad Keyservers from SKS to Hockeypuck
By Paul Collins, 3 December 2020
Ubuntu and Launchpad use OpenPGP keys heavily. Each source package is signed with the uploader’s key, and binary and source package downloads from Ubuntu’s...
MAAS CLI-only machine creation
By Bill Wear, 2 December 2020
The whole point of MAAS configuration is to get machines deployed. If you read the previous post in this series, you know how to install MAAS and do basic...
Forecasting the future of cloud with OpenStack experts
By Sarah Dickinson, 2 December 2020
OpenStack, the cloud computing platform, has proved to be a beacon of success for open source. It rounds off 10 years in existence this year, a period which...
Install Amazon EKS Distro anywhere
By Canonical, 1 December 2020
One install, one cluster, snap! Today, we’re excited to announce that EKS is available outside of AWS, on any Ubuntu system, with the EKS snap. This...
Canonical’s LTS Docker Image Portfolio is now available on Amazon ECR Public
By Canonical, 1 December 2020
Today, Canonical announced the availability of its curated set of secure container application images on Amazon ECR Public, complementing the current...
CLI-only MAAS operation
By Bill Wear, 30 November 2020
MAAS provides a state-of-the-art User Interface (UI), which is relatively simple to use, if the required inputs are known and understood. You may be less...
Embedded Linux for teams
By Galem KAYO, 26 November 2020
A Linux kernel for each developer team, which uses it to bring up target boards. Bespoke, built, issued, and maintained over years by the vendor. Teams that...
Design and Web team summary – 24th November 2020
By Anthony Dillon, 24 November 2020
The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team Hi, I am...
Canonical publishes LTS Docker Image Portfolio on Docker Hub
By Canonical, 24 November 2020
Ten year maintenance commitment on app images provides secure cloud software supply chain November 24th 2020: Canonical has published the LTS Docker Image...
Exploring ROS 2 Kubernetes configurations
By sidfaber, 23 November 2020
Kubernetes and robotics make a great match. However, as we have seen, robots running ROS 2 can be tricky to set up on Kubernetes. This blog series has...
Distribute ROS 2 across machines with MicroK8s
By sidfaber, 17 November 2020
Introduction Our simple ROS 2 talker and listener setup runs well on a single Kubernetes node, now let’s distribute it out across multiple computers. This...
Cybersecurity defenses for IIoT
By Galem KAYO, 17 November 2020
Cybersecurity attacks on industrial IoT solutions can have detrimental consequences. This is the case because IoT devices record privacy-sensitive data and...