OpenStack is dead? The numbers speak for themselves.

Austin, Texas – 3rd of March 2022 – OpenStack is dead! A masked man in a black cloak with “public clouds”, “containers” and ”serverless” inscriptions shot OpenStack straight in the heart. OpenStack fell to the ground and with the last moment of strength exclaimed: “Long live open … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Advantech and Canonical Collaborate on Ubuntu Pre-Loaded Embedded Solutions for Edge Computing Applications

March 2nd, 2022 — Advantech, a leading provider of embedded IoT solutions, has collaborated with Canonical in the provision of Ubuntu pre-loaded and certified embedded boards and systems for diverse edge computing applications. By certifying Advantech products, Canonical, the pub … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Pacific Textiles drives digital transformation with new infrastructure for legacy and cloud-native applications

March 1st, 2022 — Canonical announces that Pacific Textiles chose Canonical Charmed OpenStack for its infrastructure upgrade. The new private cloud environment allows keeping the legacy workloads running continuously and launching new cloud-native services simultaneously. The pro … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Enabling simple, cost-effective Kubernetes on IBM Z with MicroK8s

Containerisation has transformed the enterprise IT landscape, driving faster, more secure, and more predictable software delivery than ever before. Thanks to technologies like Docker, building containerised applications is easy, and many businesses are working with hundreds or ev … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Mir 2.7 brings idle timeout and OSK support for Qt applications

We are glad to announce the release of Mir 2.7 — our open source and secure display server for building Wayland-based shells. Mir provides a set of libraries and a Wayland compositor with integrated window management. This new release brings to you an idle timeout and on-screen k … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Vodafone Cloud Smartphone Based on Anbox Cloud

Today Canonical announces it is collaborating with Vodafone to test a new technology that uses Anbox Cloud, and the power of smart mobile networks, to transform TVs, computers, wearables and other everyday objects into ‘cloud smartphones’.  The prototype Cloud Smartphone will be … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Vodafone Cloud Smartphone based on Anbox Cloud

Today Canonical announces it is collaborating with Vodafone to test a new technology that uses Anbox Cloud, and the power of smart mobile networks, to transform TVs, computers, wearables and other everyday objects into ‘cloud smartphones’.  The prototype Cloud Smartphone will be … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

An overview of live kernel patching

Learn how Canonical improves security on Linux with live kernel patching. Track Livepatch activity over time in Landscape. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Developing GUIs for IoT is easier with Ubuntu Frame on-screen keyboard

Isn’t it nice when things just work? When you don’t have to worry about every single detail but only about what creates value? Imagine that you are building a digital kiosk using a touch screen. To log in, users need to input their credentials. Do you want to spend time integrati … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Three ways to package your Electron apps as snaps

Software comes in many shapes and forms. One of the popular cross-platform, cross-architecture frameworks for building and distributing applications in Electron, which combines the Chromium rendering engine and the Node.js runtime. This makes Electron-based applications relativel … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Open source Machine Learning toolkit for financial services

The financial services sector is adopting Artificial Intelligence technologies at a growing rate. Areas such as asset management, algorithmic trading, credit underwriting, blockchain based finance solutions, fraud detection and claims processing have all seen increased adoption o … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Monitor Ubuntu Advantage FIPS configurations

There are multiple ways to enable, manage, and monitor FIPS on Ubuntu. You can use the UA Client to enable FIPS, and configure Landscape to audit FIPS configurations in your entire Ubuntu estate. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Building and running FIPS containers on Ubuntu 18.04

Build and run Ubuntu containers that comply with the US and Canada government FIPS140-2 data protection standard. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Snapd

Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Design and Web team summary – 11 February 2022

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


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

An overview of OpenStack storage

OpenStack storage is probably one of the most complex topics in OpenStack architecture right after networking. There are many different storage options, at least a few storage services, and tons of supported storage backends. It is very easy to get lost. But do not worry, there i … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Canonical at MWC 2022

Visit us from 9AM to 6PM (CET) in our Executive Room (Hall 2.1) MWC Barcelona is the world’s most influential exhibition for the connectivity industry. Since open source software is a key component of innovation and technology improvements in that space we will be there as well. … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Low latency Linux for industrial embedded systems – Part III

Welcome to the concluding chapter of this three-part blog series on the low latency Ubuntu kernel for industrial embedded systems.   Each blog is standalone and can be read independently from the others, although you may want to start at the beginning for some continuity. If you … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Meet Canonical at Cloud Expo Europe London 2022

The leading fair in London, Paris, Frankfurt and Singapore will open its doors to C-level experts and executives in London. Canonical will be attending as a Platinum Sponsor, presenting strategies and trends for industry leading companies. Get your free ticket now Book a meeting … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

The State of Robotics – January 2022

What a way of starting the year! Setting milestones, helping those in need, and daring to dream. January 2022 starts with one of the biggest technological conferences — CES. So, in this piece, you will find a breakdown of three robots in our usual style. But there’s more… we also … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Learn how to build a minimal Charm

The previous blog post talked about the community workshops taking place in the Juju and Charm community. Normally the community workshops take place every Friday at 10:00 am CET. The details for these workshops can be found in the public channel on Mattermost. In one of the work … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

A Charming community: how to join the Juju and Charmed Operators community

If you are familiar with open source, you know that the community is what drives a project and gives its purpose, keeps it alive and thriving. So, it is important to support that community, and provide tools and encouragement to help it grow. Today, we would highlight the communi … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Canonical: a world leader in remote first working

Over the last two years much of the Global workforce has experienced remote working first-hand. Sound familiar? For many, this was a ‘career first’, changing their views on the effectiveness of remote working. The desire to be office based has reduced dramatically with people wan … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Low latency Linux kernel for industrial embedded systems – Part II

Welcome to Part II of this three-part blog series on adopting the low latency Ubuntu kernel for your embedded systems. In case you missed it, check out Part I for a brief intro on preemptable processes in multiuser systems and memory split into kernel and user space. The low-late … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Low latency Linux for industrial embedded systems – Part I

Welcome to this mini blog series on the low latency Linux kernel for industrial embedded systems!  The real-time patch, which is not fully upstream yet, has had many developers wonder about stable alternatives for their projects adopting an embedded Linux operating system (OS) wi … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Deploying Kubeflow Pipelines with Azure AKS spot instances

Introduction Charmed Kubeflow is an MLOps platform from Canonical, designed to improve the lives of data engineers and data scientists by delivering an end-to-end solution for AM/ML model ideation, training, release and maintenance, from concept to production. As a result, Charme … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Canonical and CoreSpace Announce Partnership To Offer Organizations ‘One-Stop Shopping’ for Private Clouds

With Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack and Charmed Kubernetes and CoreSpace’s Infrastructure Solutions, Enterprises Can Easily and Economically Move Forward in Their Cloud Journeys February, 8th 2022 — Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, and CoreSpace, a leading Infrastructure-as-a-S … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

How Snapcraft helps developers map out their application dependencies and efficiently build snaps

One of the core concepts of snaps is cross-distro compatibility. Developers can build their snaps once, and they should run well on more than 40 different Linux distros. But how does one take care of all the required runtime dependencies? By providing them inside the snap, as par … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Enabling Ubuntu FIPS 140 in air-gapped environments

Understand how you can enable Ubuntu FIPS profile in air-gapped environments using Ubuntu Advantage […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Planning phased Ubuntu 22.04 Enterprise Desktop upgrades with Landscape

Comply with release management and change management policies by controlling enterprise Ubuntu Desktop upgrades with Landscape […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Finserv hybrid cloud strategy – it starts with Linux

The future of financial services technology infrastructure is hybrid multi-cloud. Hybrid multi-cloud architecture provides financial institutions flexibility, portability, interoperability, and the control needed to consistently deploy and manage enterprise applications and workl … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Linux Server Management in 2022

Objectively compare Linux server management products, and identify what server dashboard is best suited for your organisation. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Open source cloud platform: meet OpenStack

Are you looking for an open source cloud platform and you don’t know where to start? Are you getting lost in all the independent rankings and cloud platform comparison pages? Try OpenStack and get your open source cloud platform up and running today. OpenStack works at any scale: … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Bare metal Kubernetes as a Service: Canonical MAAS and SpectroCloud Webinar

Developers want Kubernetes infrastructure that is fast, consistent, and without limits! Platform engineering, IT, and DevOps teams are adopting Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS) now more than ever before to streamline efficiency for dev teams and operations. But what happens when th … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Art Created in Space as Prelude To Celestium Global Art and STEM Project

A ground breaking data storage and edge processing tech demo aboard the International Space Station has paved the way for a new era in digital art St. Petersburg, Florida – 1st February 2022- Award-winning artist Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm and her tech team at ARTificial Mind ar … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Design and Web team summary – 14 January 2022

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


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

The State of IoT – January 2022

No day goes by without innovation in the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, affecting enterprises and individuals alike. In case you missed it, here is a roundup of last year highlights from the IoT world. January was a month packed with IoT-related news, so brace for a ride as … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Single-command Docker environments on any machine with Multipass

Multipass has a new workflow tailored to run Docker containers on macOS, Windows or Linux. One single command, no dependencies, full flexibility. Multipass exists to bring Ubuntu-based development to the operating system of your choice. Whether you prefer the GUI of macOS (even o … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Understanding bare metal Kubernetes

Bare metal Kubernetes is a powerful set of technologies that builds on the best ideas behind the public and private cloud, yet abstracts away some toilsome aspects related to virtualisation management and networking. For operators and users, it provides significant benefits, maki … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Telco workloads orchestration in multi-clouds environments – focus for Open Source MANO release ELEVEN

Open source MANO release ELEVEN is here with another set of exciting features for the telco world!! Promising the production-grade orchestration of telco workloads, OSM release ELEVEN focuses on the trends of cloud-native deployments in multi-cloud environments. To overcome the c … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

The idea of a tutorial

Sooner or later, almost everyone who looks at some software that they or their team have created imagines a user getting to grips with it, and a pang of empathy for that unknown person prompts them to think: what we need here is a tutorial. And they are always absolutely right. I … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Smart, agile MLOps on any cloud – Canonical releases Charmed Kubeflow 1.4

25th January 2022: Today, the Canonical Charmed Kubeflow team announced the release of Charmed Kubeflow 1.4 – the state-of-the-art MLOps platform. The new release enables data science teams to securely collaborate on AI/ML innovation on any cloud, from concept to production. Char … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Linux game development on Ubuntu: Godot and Unity

In this post we show you how to set up two of our favourite Linux game development tools for Ubuntu Desktop; Godot and Unity. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Let’s build a snap together – a complex snapcraft.yaml walkthrough

It has been a while since we talked about how to build snaps. In the past, we went through a number of detailed examples, focused on different programming languages and the use of various useful components that can be declared in snapcraft.yaml, like extensions, stage packages, l … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Accessible by design: How we are designing for accessibility at Canonical

In this blog post, I will talk about some of the most important considerations when it comes to building UIs that are accessible by design and how we are approaching this challenge at Canonical to continuously improve the accessibility of Vanilla, our open source design system an … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Ubuntu introduces the Ubuntu Security Guide to ease DISA-STIG compliance

January 17th: London, UK – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the world’s most popular operating system across private and public clouds, now offers the Ubuntu Security Guide tooling for compliance with the DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) in Ubuntu 20.04 LT … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

CIS benchmark compliance: Introducing the Ubuntu Security Guide

The CIS benchmark has hundreds of configuration recommendations, so hardening and auditing a Linux system manually can be very tedious. Every administrator of systems that need to comply with that benchmark would wish that this process is easily usable and automatable. Why is tha … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago

Canonical Kubernetes for Financial Services

To serve today’s on-demand customer, financial institutions must become agile digital enterprises focused on delivering innovative products, services, and customer experiences.  Adopting a container-first approach represents an unrivalled opportunity for financial institutions to … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 years ago