Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! For a while now, snapd has supported the ability to install and use multiple instances of the same snap in parallel. This allows users to test features in new software releases side by side with Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Following on from MAAS 2.6.2, we are happy to announce that MAAS 2.7 is now available. This release features some critical bug fixes, along with some exciting new features. CentOS 8 image support For some Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.02. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. CephFS backend for Manila The Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! This is the third and the last guide in this series. In the first installment, we learned about considerations for an update from Windows 7 to Ubuntu, key differences in hardware and software between the Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Many DevOps tools struggle as deployments change. Juju excels. 2020 heralds a decade for a divided technology industry. Software delivery is diversifying. Complexity is increasing. Teams are looking to make use of new approaches such Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! (This blog post is part of a 5 part series, titled “How to launch IoT devices”. It will cover the key choices and concerns when turning bright IoT ideas into a product in the market. Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Following up on the previous example of building a rust and C based snaps, I thought we’d take a look at bundling a Java application as a snap. In this example we’ll use an open Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web and Design team at Canonical.  Some of us attended our internal roadmap alignment sprint in Cape Town. These trips are extremely valuable for the Web Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Dell offers numerous workstations that come pre-installed with Ubuntu. For users wanting to run Ubuntu, pre-installed hardware offers a lot of long term benefits. On top of receiving the Ubuntu desktop experience out of the Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! The container landscape is based on constantly evolving technology, with Kubernetes dominating the ecosystem for automating and managing containerised applications. While a very powerful software, it’s also complex. How do you compare Kubernetes to other Continue Reading

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Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! A few days ago, Rhys Davies wrote a timely article, titled Why you should upgrade to Ubuntu. In it, he outlined a high-level overview of what the end of support of Windows 7 signifies for Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! MicroK8s is the smallest, fastest multi-node Kubernetes. Single-package fully conformant lightweight Kubernetes that works on 42 flavours of Linux as well as Mac and Windows using Multipass. Perfect for: Developer workstations, IoT, Edge, CI/CD. Anyone who’s tried Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! This week, as part of my work on the Ubuntu Robotics team, I headed up to Slippery Rock University in northwestern PA to meet with Dr. Sam Thangiah and to introduce students to the Robot Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Businesses looking to maximise the security, reliability, efficiency and performance of their essential, mission-critical applications are recognising the mainframe as a robust platform for a variety of workload types. With Ubuntu on IBM Z and Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! For mission-critical applications, security, reliability, and efficiency are essential. Linux excels in these areas, which is why it has become a highly popular platform for supporting key enterprise software. And for businesses looking to push Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! In the past decade, video has become the most ubiquitous method of communication on the Web. Video clips are used for pretty much anything, from short software tutorials to hours-long live online gaming streaming. In Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Once upon a time, Heathkit was a big business. Yeah, I know I’m dating myself. Meh. Heathkit kits were great, but honestly, I had an issue with them: They were either too focused on (re-)teaching Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! With the launch of the iPhone in 2007, mobile users were introduced to the smartphone as we still know it today: touchscreen, cameras and app stores. The launch of Android spurred low-cost alternatives to the Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Canonical today announced Anbox Cloud, a platform that containerises workloads using Android1 as a guest operating system enabling enterprises to distribute applications from the cloud. Anbox Cloud allows enterprises and service providers to deliver mobile Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Since the outset, Anbox Cloud was developed with a variety of use cases for running Android inside containers. Cloud gaming, more specifically for casual games as found on most user’s mobile devices, is the most Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! The second iteration of this year is the last one before our mid-cycle sprint next week. Here’s a short summary of the work the squads in the Web & Design team completed in the last Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! IoT businesses are notoriously difficult to get off the ground. No matter how good your product is or how good your team is, some of the biggest problems you will face are just in getting Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Canonical closes for the holidays, but robots just get more festive. Roboticists seem to feel the festive spirit, and it turns their projects into festive robots. The Ubuntu robotics team isn’t quite ready to let Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Two industry trends point to a gap in DevOps tooling chosen by many. Operations teams need more than an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, but a complete model-driven operations mentality. Learn how Canonical has addressed these concerns by Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! When a robot is not up-to-date, it becomes about as useful as an expensive paperweight, or companies have to burn money to get them back online. Yet when mobile apps need updating, it only takes Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Software discovery and installation broadly comes in two flavors – via graphical user interface or on the command line. If you’re using a Linux distribution with a friendly software frontend offering integrated snap support, e.g. Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Our MAAS team has been hard at work, making life even better for those of you who provision and manage servers and data centres. This hard work has produced a new release, MAAS 2.7! This Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! This is the final iteration of the year. The team has worked exceptionally hard to produce a number of new projects and initiatives. Here is a shortlist of highlights from the team in 2019: JAAS Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Canonical and Dell EMC have announced the release of a new OpenStack reference architecture – providing customers with a tested, certified framework for deploying Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack solution on top of Dell EMC’s best-of-breed PowerEdge Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! The end of 2019 brings about the latest ROS 2 release – Eloquent Elusor. Despite an ever growing set of features and some changes throughout the ecosystem, packaging with snaps is as easy as always. Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! When designers put their heart and soul into making super-fast, easy-to-use software to help take Internet of Things (IoT) apps to the next level, installation of that software needs to meet the same high standards. Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Canonical is proud to announce the availability of Juju 2.7. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Juju across various areas. To learn more about Juju, visit our Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.17, with support covering Charmed Kubernetes, MicroK8s and Kubeadm. MicroK8s will be updated with Kubernetes 1.17 enabling users access to the latest upstream release with a single-line command Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! We’re excited to announce the release of MicroK8s with Kubernetes 1.17! MicroK8s is a Kubernetes cluster delivered as a single snap package – it can be installed on any Linux distribution which supports snaps. MicroK8s Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Updated 32-bit and 64-bit images of Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi family of devices have just been released. Innovators around the world can now download 32-bit images for the Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4, Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! In what is becoming an incredibly insightful tradition, we have built a 5 to 10-minute survey to collect direct feedback from as many operating system users as we can. Not just those on Ubuntu desktop Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Every few months we release a Snapcraft update, with improvements to both linux development, and snap user experience. Last week, we released Snapcraft 3.9, and this blog post will focus on the remote build feature Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! MAAS (metal as a service), is a Canonical product which allows for very fast server provisioning and data centre management. Around 2014, work began to build a rich UI for MAAS, primarily using the AngularJS Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! When you build snaps, the process of composing a complete snapcraft.yaml file will usually revolve around three main activities: parts, build requirements and runtime components. Sometimes, you may discover that you’re missing certain libraries in Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! For the past few decades, the digital office formula has not changed much. It still revolves around three main components – text documents, data spreadsheets and visual slide decks, designed to convey a powerful business Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! The 8th OSM Hackfest is over, but the OSM (Open Source MANO) project continues to evolve and is now looking forward to landing release SEVEN. It was an exciting week in Lucca, Italy. We’ve seen Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Here at Canonical, we use Dockerfiles on a daily basis for all our web projects. Something that caught our attention recently was the amount of space that we were using for each Docker image, and Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! I remember my first foo. It was September, 1974, on a PDP-11/40, in the second-floor lab at the local community college. It was an amazing experience for a fourteen-year-old, admitted at 12 to audit night Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! The adoption of new technology is almost never without hurdles. Usually, it takes a while before users become familiar and comfortable with the new concepts and usage models. Often, having a good understanding of the Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Today, Intel announced a group of new vulnerabilities affecting various Intel CPUs and associated GPUs, known as TSX Asynchronous Abort (CVE-2019-11135), Intel® Processor Machine Check Error (CVE-2018-12207), and two Intel i915 graphics hardware  vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-0155, Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Date: Nov 13-14Location: Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GermanyBooth: 957 The TechWeek Frankfurt trade show will explore solutions to technology challenges organisations face across cloud computing and security, DevOps practices, Big Data management and more. With these Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Canonical is happy to announce an updated Ubuntu Advantage (UA) client that provides users a more efficient and consistent command-line interface via single-token access to Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure services for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! With 19.10 release of Ubuntu Server, Canonical announced official support for the Raspberry Pi 4. The latest board from the Raspberry Pi Foundation sports a faster system-on-a-chip with a processor that uses the Cortex-A72 architecture Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! We recently got an interesting question from a customer, and I think the answer might be helpful to a wider audience. Python 2 will reach end of life in two months. This shouldn’t be news Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! The inaugural Ubuntu Masters event brought together leaders from some of the world’s most exciting companies to talk about their infrastructure challenges and how they’re relying on open-source innovation to solve them. Comprised primarily of Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 19.10. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. To learn more about Charmed Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! New York has the highest population density of any city in the United States with over 27,000 people per square mile. The average New Yorker has a commute of 40 minutes, 14 more than the Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Canonical will be present at the 2019 IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona from Tuesday 29th October at booth GV/P2/0/B/224.  We are convening to the flagship IoT event, alongside more than 350 leading suppliers Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! If you’re looking for an easy, non-techie way to install snaps, you want a simple store-like utility. Snap integration is available in both GNOME Software and KDE Discover, which cover a large portion of the Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Linux security is central to each release of Ubuntu, the most widely-used Linux distribution. With Ubuntu’s predictable six-month release cycle, users know when to expect the latest upstream open source capabilities and security. Long Term Support Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! As developers, we do not always have access to a production-like environment to test new features and run proof-of-concepts. This is why it can be very interesting to deploy Kubernetes on a single machine. Of Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! An interesting aspect in the life of any technology is how it propagates. Like organisms in nature, technology follows evolutionary patterns, and sometimes, it can be difficult predicting them. But their observation can be quite Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! There are fundamental differences between developing general-purpose software applications and making software for embedded systems. Embedded systems software runs on resource-constrained hardware, in contrast to general-purpose server or client applications that run on more capable Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. This cycle we had two sprints. The first was a web performance workshop run by the amazing Harry Roberts. It Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! At Canonical, we build solutions to simplify the lives of our users. We want to reduce complexity, costs, and barriers to entry. When we built the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) and MicroK8s, we made Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! One of the key benefits of IoT is the ability to monitor and control connected devices remotely. This allows operators to interact with connected devices in a feedback loop, resulting in accelerated decisions. These interactions Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! We have recently announced that we are transitioning the Chromium deb package to the snap in Ubuntu 19.10. Such a transition is not trivial, and there have been many constructive discussions around it, so here Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! We at Canonical have been hard at work on the security features of version 2 of the Robot Operating System (ROS 2). However, if we lift our collective heads up out of the weeds it’s Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! As you probably already know, snapcraft supports a range of plugins, designed to aid developers in making their snaps in an easier, faster, more transparent fashion. Plugins work with different programming languages and build tools, Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! With an emerging demand for higher speeds, lower latency, and increasing connection density,  telecommunications providers have started implementing 5G. While the initial roll-out usually takes months, the entire process is going to take years. This Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  The first week was spent at an Engineering Sprint in Paris France. The second week was back home.  Here are Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! This is the second part of our introduction to MicroK8s blog series. In the previous blog, we introduced MicroK8s, went over K8s basic concepts and showed you how fast and easy it is to install Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! For many, watching other people play games has long taken over from TV as the favoured source of entertainment content. As a creator, whether you stream via YouTube, Twitch.tv or Mixter, Open Broadcast Software (OBS) Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! From a distance, Linux is one big, confusing ball of passionate users and hardcore technical jargon. But as you zoom in, you can start seeing patterns – and differences. Indeed, the individual and vastly varied Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! This is a guest blog by Kara Todd, Director, Linux, IBM Z and LinuxONE Enterprises today need the most secure, and flexible system to support their initiatives, and for that system to grow and evolve Continue Reading