The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s s … | Continue reading
We are happy to announce that the newest community feature of the Snap Store is here: Star Developers! Background In the Snap Store, we have a fantastic community where members can discuss topics in the forum, develop snaps and help others. Currently, the Snap Store has verified … | Continue reading
Linux Active Directory (AD) integration is historically one of the most requested functionalities by our corporate users, and with Ubuntu Desktop 22.04, we introduced ADsys, our new Active Directory client. This blog post is the last of a series where we will explore the new func … | Continue reading
Along with the usual bug fixing, maintenance, and upstream version enablement work that goes into every Charmed Ceph release, we also worked on a number of new features in this cycle. Stand-alone NFS shares In Ceph, you can use CephFS for your network file share needs, but someti … | Continue reading
A real-time system responds to events within a specified deadline. If the timing constraints of the system are unmet, failure has occurred. In the kernel context, real-time denotes a deterministic response to an external event, aiming to minimize the response time guarantee. Real … | Continue reading
Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the latest long term support release of Ubuntu, one of the world’s most popular Linux distributions. As a Long Term Support release, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will be supported for 10 years, receiving both extended security updates and kernel livepatching via … | Continue reading
As part of their fundamental, security-driven design, snaps are meant to run isolated from the underlying system. In most cases, the idea works well, and granular access to system resources using the mechanism of interfaces allows snap developers to ship their applications packag … | Continue reading
How important security is for your application and digital services? “Very important”, this is the answer we get the most often from Product Managers and Executives. Nobody wants the malware to take advantage of the vulnerabilities of their applications. However, any access point … | Continue reading
The software operator is a design pattern. Its design is based on successful applications where this approach was found useful. In other words, it’s a proven approach that can be recommended to others. But like all approaches, it’s important to understand their advantages disadva … | Continue reading
The software operator is a design pattern – it is a proven design that has been applied in many situations, implemented by several frameworks. As such, we can discuss its different consequences. This is important, because software developers and IT architects need to know when a … | Continue reading
Linux Active Directory (AD) integration is historically one of the most requested functionalities by our corporate users, and with Ubuntu Desktop 22.04, we introduced ADsys, our new Active Directory client. This blog post is part 3 of a series where we will explore the new functi … | Continue reading
How to build a future-proof private cloud that offloads the operational complexity and allows you to focus on innovation and digital transformation. […] | Continue reading
The Operator Day at Kubecon EU 2022, hosted by Canonical, took place on Monday 16 May 2022. We thank everyone for attending the event. Our thanks go out especially to those who engaged with us via chat during the online event. We enjoyed answering questions and having conversati … | Continue reading
Improving Firefox snap performance is one of our top priorities. In part 2 of this series, we give an update on our progress and latest fixes. […] | Continue reading
If you are packaging your IoT applications as snaps or containers, you are aware of the benefits of bundling an application with its dependencies. Publishing snaps across different operating system versions and even distributions is much easier than maintaining package dependenci … | Continue reading
Ubuntu Core is the operating system for IoT and edge Ubuntu Core, the Ubuntu flavour optimised for IoT and edge devices, has a new version available. With a 2-year release cadence, every new release is both an exciting and challenging milestone. Ubuntu Core is based on Ubuntu. It … | Continue reading
The ultra-secure embedded Ubuntu introduces support for real-time compute in robotics and industrial applications. 15 June 2022: Canonical today announced that Ubuntu Core 22, the fully containerised Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant optimised for IoT and edge devices, is now generally av … | Continue reading
The ultra-secure embedded Ubuntu introduces support for real-time compute in robotics and industrial applications. 15 June 2022: Canonical today announced that Ubuntu Core 22, the fully containerised Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant optimised for IoT and edge devices, is now generally av … | Continue reading
OIS 2022 is over, but the OpenInfra community stays tuned for the next OpenInfra Summit, taking place in Vancouver in 2023! This year’s summit in Berlin offered a lot of insightful keynotes and technical sessions. Speakers discussed the most recent trends in the industry, includi … | Continue reading
OIS 2022 is over, but the OpenInfra community stays tuned for the next OpenInfra Summit, taking place in Vancouver in 2023! This year’s summit in Berlin offered a lot of insightful keynotes and technical sessions. Speakers discussed the most recent trends in the industry, includi … | Continue reading
The software operator is a design pattern. A design pattern describes the approach to cover the operational tasks of an application’s implementation. The first post in this series introduced the concept of a design pattern in general. The second post covers the software operator … | Continue reading
In the previous blog, SQL vs NoSQL Database, we discussed the difference between two major database categories. In a nutshell, the main difference between NoSQL and SQL is that NoSQL adopts a ‘right tool for the job’ approach, whilst SQL adopts a ‘one tool for all the jobs’. Whil … | Continue reading
IT leaders, engineers, and developers must consider multiple factors when using a database. There are scores of open source and proprietary databases available, and each offers distinct value to organisations. They can be divided into two primary categories: SQL (relational datab … | Continue reading
Last May, KubeCon gathered multiple tech enthusiasts, students, professionals, and companies. The event highlighted various topics and insights on how to collaborate on pushing the boundaries of cloud-native computin One of our Engineering Directors, Mykola Marzhan, shared his kn … | Continue reading
In this blog, we’ll explore some of the main VM features that help you run your infrastructure on LXD. […] | Continue reading
The heart of open source will be beating in Austin and streamed online for the Open Source Summit North America, taking place on 20-25 June 2022. Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders. It’s a great venue to collab … | Continue reading
A real-time system responds to events within a specified deadline. If the timing constraints of the system are unmet, failure has occurred. Real-time in the kernel context denotes a deterministic response to an external event, aiming to minimize the response time guarantee. PREEM … | Continue reading
Managing a Kubernetes cluster is a complex endeavor. As demands on a cluster grow, increasing the number of deployed pods can help ease the load on the system. But what do you do when you run out of nodes to host those pods, or when the load decreases and some nodes are no longer … | Continue reading
From home control to drones, robots and industrial systems, Ubuntu Core provides robust security, app stores and reliable updates for all your IoT devices. | Continue reading
Welcome to the May edition of the monthly State of IoT series. May was a month full of exciting news, from open-source GPU modules and alternatives to the Jetson to a new Matter-ready hub for smart home appliances. Before diving straight in, let’s cover noteworthy news not inclu … | Continue reading
How to build a private cloud strategy that cuts down costs and allows you to focus on your business goals? […] | Continue reading
Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure offers a single, per-node packaging of the most comprehensive software, security and IaaS support in the industry, with OpenStack support, Kubernetes support included, and Livepatch, Landscape and Extended Security Maintenance to address securi … | Continue reading
Advantech, a leading global provider of intelligent systems and industrial edge computers, is excited to announce that its MIC-770 V2 modular fanless edge IPC is certified on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. MIC-770-V2 is powered by a 10th generation Intel® Xeon®/Core™ i socket-type (LGA1200) p … | Continue reading
Welcome to the concluding chapter of this journey on embedded Linux development with Ubuntu. We covered a lot of ground, so let us quickly recap what we learned so far. In Part I we introduced Snaps, software packages designed for the world of IoT. Snap packages isolate and encap … | Continue reading
Embedded World 2022 is almost here! From 21-23 June 2022, the 20th edition of the embedded world Conference will bring together experts from all areas of research and fields of application for embedded systems, IoT & Edge devices. It’s a special event for Canonical as we’ll be c … | Continue reading
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, joined the World Data Summit held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, last May 18-20, 2022. Michelle Anne Tabirao, Data Solutions Product Manager, participated as a speaker in a technical workshop and a panel discussion. Discussing the latest trends in … | Continue reading
Welcome to Part II of this three-part mini-series on embedded Linux development on Ubuntu. In Part I, we set the stage for the remainder of the series and gave an overview of snaps, the packaging format at the heart of embedded devices running Ubuntu. Snaps are a secure, confined … | Continue reading
Linux Active Directory integration is one of the most popular and requested topics from both the community and our clients. On May 17 we delivered a webinar on the new AD integration features introduced with 22.04 (now available on demand) and following that we received an overwh … | Continue reading
Improving Firefox snap performance is one of our top priorities. Learn more about our recent changes, ongoing investigations and how to run your own benchmarks. […] | Continue reading
Welcome to this three-part mini-series on embedded Linux development on Ubuntu. Throughout this series, we will discuss the key challenges of traditional software distribution mechanisms for embedded Linux devices. We will understand why legacy development and update approaches … | Continue reading
Date: July 11-13 Location: Portland, Oregon, USA In just a few weeks Cephalocon will be held in Portland at the Oregon Convention Center, as well as online for those unable to travel. After a pandemic induced hiatus, this will be the first gathering of Ceph developers and users … | Continue reading
Come join us at ISC High Performance 2022 in Hamburg, book your meeting now, to discuss all things Canonical, Ubuntu and HPC. […] | Continue reading
Canonical’s UA and Pro customers can now fully benefit from their subscriptions directly in containerised environments and pipelines. The new UA client release (27.7+) makes it easier to enable FIPS mode in Ubuntu containers. It also automatically signs up CI/CD builds for 10-yea … | Continue reading
We’re excited about the recent release of ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill, a Long Term Support (LTS) distro, supported for the next five years. ROS 2 releases come out on every even-numbered year together with the LTS release of Ubuntu, this time with Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). Earl … | Continue reading
HPE and Canonical have a long-standing relationship, certifying Ubuntu on HPE hardware. Now, you can go beyond the operating system and engage with us on hybrid cloud, AI/ML, and open source support projects. Now we’re excited to share that we’ll be at the HPE Discover 2022 in La … | Continue reading
We welcome the new release of ROS 2 Humble which targets the recently released Ubuntu 22.04. If you want to install ROS 2 Humble and test compatibility, keeping your current environment stable until you know you are ready to upgrade, you can dive into LXD containers. In this blog … | Continue reading
Robotics ventures are different. They face different technical challenges in design, testing and deployment. This has an implication for everything, including funding. It’s not the same to raise funding for the next mobile app or IoT device, as for the next assistive robot. Inves … | Continue reading