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

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! In this blog, we are going to explore how to leverage MAAS for hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration using tags. In many cases, certain pieces of hardware require extra kernel parameters to be set in Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning adoption in the enterprise is exploding from Silicon Valley to Wall Street with diverse use cases ranging from the analysis of customer behaviour and purchase cycles to diagnosing medical conditions. Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! After exploring some ROS 2 subtleties and implementing some CLI tools we felt were missing, the time has come to get our hands even more dirty. What better way to learn than by doing? C’est 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! I needed to install a clean instance of Bionic to test some code, but I did not want to use a full virtual machine as I was in a hurry.  To do this, I used Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! We at Canonical care deeply about robotics. We firmly believe that robots based on Linux are cheaper to develop, more flexible, more secure, and faster to market. One of the contributing factors to this being Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! How are snaps different from debs? This is a common question that comes up in technical discussions in the Linux community, especially among developers and users who have just embarked on their snap journey and Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! In this blog post, we are going to introduce the concept of multi-tenancy in MAAS. This allows operators to have different groups of users own a group of resources (machines) without ever even knowing about 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 1.16 beta! MicroK8s is a lightweight and reliable Kubernetes cluster delivered as a single snap package – it can be installed on any Linux distribution which supports Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! We are excited to announce new Cilium and Helm add-ons, coming to MicroK8s! These add-ons add even more power to your Kubernetes environment built on MicroK8s. The Cilium CNI plugin brings enhanced networking features, including Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! A well configured linter can catch common errors before code is even run or compiled. ROS 2 makes it easy to add linters of your choice and make them part of your package’s testing pipeline. Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! One of the most common complaints from developers moving into large Python codebases is the difficulty in figuring out type information, and the ease by which type mismatch errors can appear at runtime. Python 3.5 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 19.07. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. Let’s talk about a few Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Kubeflow — a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes – An introduction to Kubeflow from the perspective of a data scientist. This article quickly runs through some key components – Notebooks, Model Training, Fairing, Hyperparameter Tuning Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS has just been released. For the Desktop, newer stable versions of GNOME components have been included, as well as a new feature – Livepatch desktop integration. As usual with LTS point releases, Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Following our previous post on ROS 2 CLI (Command Line Interface), we will see here how one can extend the set of existing CLI tools by introducing a new command and its related verb(s). As Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! 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 Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! An upstream Kubernetes vulnerability (CVE-2019-11247) has been identified where the API server mistakenly allows access to a cluster-scoped custom resource, if the request is made as if the resource were namespaced. Authorisations for the resource Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Kubeflow v0.6: support for artifact tracking, data versioning & multi-user – version 0.6 includes several enterprise features to support multiple users and better model training pipelines. For multiple users, Kubeflow v0.6 provides a flexible architecture Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! This iteration was fairly light iteration for the Web & design team at Canonical as we had a fair few people on holidays as well as a group who has gone to Toronto for our Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Ubuntu has supported ZFS as an option for some time. We started with a file-based ZFS pool on Ubuntu 15.10, then delivered it as a FS container in 16.04, and  recommended it for the fastest Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! The open source digital signage platform, Xibo, is now available as a snap – the universal Linux app packaging format. Xibo provides a comprehensive suite of digital signage products, with its Content Management System (CMS) Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! One of the benefits of the internet of things is the feedback loop created between operators and connected devices. Instrumented devices communicate sensor data to operators, who monitor the data, take actions and elicit further Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Kubeflow 0.5 simplifies model development with enhanced UI and Fairing library – The 2019 Q1 release of Kubeflow goes broader and deeper with release 0.5. Give your Jupyter notebooks a boost with the redesigned notebook Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Recently, I gave a keynote at the Cloud Native / OpenStack Days in Tokyo titled “the ten new rules of open source infrastructure”. It was well received and folks pointed out on Twitter that they Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Artificial intelligence relies on machine vision just as much as human intelligence relies on vision. Image sensors are, therefore, crucial for AI applications because of the richness of data that they capture. Capturing and processing Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! What is Mir, what is Wayland, do I care? Shells for graphical interfaces come in many forms, from digital signage and kiosks that just show a single full screen application; to desktop environments that manage Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Today, Canonical announces it’s Charmed OpenStack on Ubuntu has been selected by BT as a key component of its next generation 5G Core. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, will provide the open source virtual infrastructure Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! Ubuntu Advantage  for Infrastructure为业内最全面的软件、安全和IaaS提供单一 ，每节点包支持。OpenStack和Kubernetes支持的加入，UA基础设施建设提供了验证未来数据中心所需要的一切。 Ubuntu Advantage也是Canonical为企业所提供的专业技术支持，旨在降低生成环境维护成本，确保企业生产、服务正常运行免除安全威胁。 Ubuntu Advantage 为企业提供安全、合规性支持，在提高效率的同时降低了复杂性和成本支出。Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure帮助全球领先的组织管理生产环境中的Ubuntu的部署。（以下简称Ubuntu Advantage为UA） 包含： 扩展安全维护更新（ESM） Kernel live patch 服务可避免重启 Landscape内部系统管理工具 24×7的电话和ticket支持 支持OpenStack，Kubernetes，Ceph/Swift及更多 知识库访问 IP（知识产权）法律支持计划 通过FIPS 140-2认证的加密模块和普通标准 扩展安全维护更新（ESM） 扩展的安全维护（ESM）通过UA for Infrastructure确保Ubuntu长期支持（LTS）系统的持续安全性和完整性。 Canonical Ubuntu安全团队将提供Ubuntu main archive上常用的服务器包的高危漏洞、已知的安全风险修复服务。其包含12.04 Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! As you probably know, there are many ways you can build snaps: locally using snapcraft, with CI systems like Travis, through Launchpad, and also via the free online Snapcraft Build Service. Now, a new preview Continue Reading

Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! 为帮助解决电信，多媒体，运输，物流，农业和其他细分市场的独特挑战，边缘计算继续备受关注，迎来了大增长。如果你刚接触以上几个边缘计算体系结构，下图是新兴架构体系的简单抽象。 在此图中，你可以看到边缘云位于现场设备旁边。事实上，有一个极端边缘计算的概念，它将计算资源放在现场设备上——即最左边的圆圈。连接你办公室，家电和 所有传感器网关设备就是一个极端边缘计算的例子。 到底什么是边缘计算呢？ 边缘计算是云计算的一种变体，你的基础设施服务（计算，存储和网络）在物理上更靠近生成数据的现场设备。从而为你提供更低延迟和更低网络流量的双重优势。低延迟可提高现场设备的性能，使其不仅能够更快地响应，还能响应更多事件。降低网络流量有助于降低成本并提高整体吞吐量——你的核心数据中心可以支持更多现场设备。应用程序或服务是否位于边缘云或核心数据中心将取决于用例。 如何才能创建边缘云呢？ 边缘云服务应该有至少两层，两层都将最大限度地提高操作效率和开发人员的工作效率，且每层都以不同的方式构建。 第一层是基础设施即服务（IaaS），除此还提供计算和存储资源，IaaS层应该满足超低延迟和高带宽的性能需求。 第二层是Kubernetes层，提供一个让你运行应用和服务的通用平台。当然，是否用Kubernetes是可选的，但今天它已经被证明是一个让企业和组织充分利用边缘计算能力的平台。你可以在现场设备、边缘云、核心数据中心和公有云上部署你的Kubernetes。这种多云部署功能为你提供了在选择的任何地方部署工作负载的完全灵活性。Kubernetes为你的开发人员提供了简化其devop实践的能力，并最大限度地缩短了与异构操作环境集成所花费的时间。 接下来的问题是，怎么部署这些层？在Canonical，我们通过使用定义明确的专用技术来实现这一目标。让我们先开始Kubernetes所需要的IaaS层。 物理基础设施生命周期管理 第一步是考虑物理基础设施，什么技术可以更有效地管理基础设施，将原始的硬件转换到你的IaaS层。在这方面，Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS)，裸机即为服务已经被证明了其具有的高效性。MAAS提供可用于硬件发现的底层系统，使你可以灵活地分配计算资源并动态重新利用它们。这些底层系统通过开放API将裸机服务器暴露给更高级别的业务流程，就像你使用OpenStack和公共云一样。 随着最新版MAAS发布，你可以基于KVM pod自动创建边缘云，从而有效地使操作者能够创建具有预定义资源集（内存，处理器，存储和超额预订比）的虚拟机。你可以通过命令行和浏览器界面以及MAAS API来完成上面操作。你也可以是用Canonical的高级编排解决方案Juju来构建自己的自动化框架。 正如我们在柏林的OpenStack峰会期间所展示的那样。MAAS还可以被优化过的方式部署以便在机架交换机上运行。 边缘应用的编排 一旦边缘云的物理基础架构的发现和配置完成，第二步就是选择一个业务流程工具，以便在边缘基础架构上轻松安装Kubernetes或其他软件。你可以通过Juju简单安装一个完全兼容上游Kubernetes的Charmed Kubernetes。使用Kubernetes时，你可以安装容器化工作负载，为其提供最高性能。 在电信领域，容器网络功能（CNFs）等工作负载非常适合这种架构。 Charmed Kubernetes还有其他的优点。能够在虚拟化环境中运行或直接在裸机上运行，全自动Charmed Kubernetes部署内置高可用性设计，允许就地，零停机升级。这些都是经过验证的，真正具有弹性的边缘基础架构和解决方案。Charmed Kubernetes的另一个好处是能够自动检测和配置GPGPU资源，以加速AI模型论证和容器化转码工作负载。 下一步 当选择好了合适的技术，现在是时候部署环境和开始验证程序。下一部分的博客文章将包含实际操作的例子。 The post 在边缘端部署Kubernetes第一部分——模块搭建 appeared first on Ubuntu Blog. Continue Reading