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Mark Shuttleworth on overcoming software complexity

While today we see an enormous amount of incredible software being published, both by tech giants and niche providers, there is a significant lag in the telco...

Edge computing is dead, long live micro clouds and IoT gateways

“The King is dead, long live the King.” It might be my french roots speaking, but it seems that actual use cases are replacing King Edge, and it might be for...

Popular snaps per distro (2020 edition)

Back in mid-2019, we wrote a blog post detailing and comparing the most popular snaps across multiple distributions – Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora,...

Canonical’s Open Operator Collection extends Kubernetes operators to traditional Linux and Windows applications

13th November 2020: Canonical’s Open Operator Collection, the largest collection of application operators, now supports both cloud-native and traditional...

10 years and 10 million cores: charting OpenStack’s greatest achievements

Technology anniversaries have become more commonplace in recent years. The iPhone at 10 years old, indeed Canonical itself turned 15 last year. Here though,...

Less than 6 months to Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: 6 things to prepare

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus will enter the extended security maintenance (ESM) period in April 2021. This article explains the ESM period and provides a...

Open Operators Training Day hosted by Canonical: a co-located KubeCon event

Register for Operators Day Date: Tuesday, November 17Registration Fees: Complimentary KubeCon NA is just around the corner and, as always, we aim to give back...

Design and Web team summary – 10th 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, my name...


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Malawi’s TNM selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to help lead virtualisation charge

10 November 2020 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack, an open source private cloud solution that allows...

ROS 2 on Kubernetes: a simple talker and listener setup

Kubernetes and ROS make a great match, but ROS2 can be tricky to set up. In this post we demonstrate a scalable system with MicroK8s on Ubuntu.

Edge-native Linux

Tech innovators use Linux to create intelligent devices for homes, factories, buildings, cities or vehicles etc… These things are deployed at the edge, in...

The State of Robotics – October 2020

This post marks the one year anniversary of the Ubuntu Robotics newsletter: the place we showcase our work and discussing cool robotics happenings.

The Hunt for Rogue Time – How we investigated and solved the Chromium snap slow startup problem

In October, we shared a blog post detailing significant snap startup time improvements due to the use of a new compression algorithm. In that article, we...

Ubuntu at ROS World 2020: Learn how to do more for your robot

Come and connect with the Ubuntu robotics team on November 12th to answer all of your questions. This is the first time ROSCon has ever been virtual and is...

MTS selects OpenStack and Canonical for next-generation cloud infrastructure

5th November, 2020: MOSCOW, Russia – MTS (NYSE:MBT; MOEX:MTSS), Russia’s largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services,...

Open Infrastructure Summit 2020: Highlights from Canonical’s first digital OIS

Another Open Infrastructure Summit just passed, and yet this one was like no other OIS past. Head-sponsoring the first ever virtual OIS was an interesting...


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