KDE apps at the snap of your fingers

Are you a Plasma fan? And you want to develop KDE applications? This has just become easier and more fun than ever before. In early November, we hosted a Snapcraft Summit in our London offices, a forward-thinking software workshop attended… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Tricks for keeping a tidy Git commit history

One of the things we’re currently working on in the web and design team is a page about writing Git commit messages for our team practices website (I hope to write more about the practices website itself in the coming days). As part… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Secure VPN Connection with Ubuntu Core

As part of a personal drive to be less dependent on 3rd party Internet services, I’ve moved some things in house, under my own control. This includes self-hosting important shared files, photos and media at home. Which can pose a… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Canonical announces support for Kubernetes 1.13 on Ubuntu

Canonical is pleased to announce full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.13 on Ubuntu, including support for kubeadm, and updates to MicroK8s – our popular single-node deployment of Kubernetes. Canonical’s certified, Charmed… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Canonical announces support for Kubernetes 1.13 on Ubuntu

Canonical is pleased to announce full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.13 on Ubuntu, including support for kubeadm, and updates to MicroK8s – our popular single-node deployment of Kubernetes. Canonical’s certified, Charmed… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Using GPGPUs with Kubernetes

This post walks through the use of GPGPUs with Kubernetes and DevicePlugins. We’ll use MicroK8s for a developer workstation example and charmed K8s for a cluster since that’s a consistent multi-cloud Kubernetes approach. The various cloud… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Fresh Snaps from November 2018

Another month passes and we’ve got a collection of applications which crossed our “desk” (Twitter feed) towards the end of 2018. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. 1. MiniZinc MiniZinc MiniZinc… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Canonical launches MicroK8s – deploy Kubernetes in seconds

Canonical has released MicroK8s – a fast and efficient upstream Kubernetes delivered as a single snap package that installs on 42 flavours of Linux. With a small disk and memory footprint, MicroK8s provides an efficient way to get… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

How to harness big data for maximum business value

Are you getting maximum value from your big data? Despite most businesses understanding the power and competitive advantage they could gain from harnessing their big data more effectively and leveraging it more efficiently, it’s not an… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Canonical and Dell EMC provide certified, production-ready Kubernetes solution

Dell EMC and Canonical today announced the continued evolution of their long-standing partnership to bring a tested and validated container orchestration solution to market through a reference architecture framework that helps… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Canonical launches MicroK8s – deploy Kubernetes in seconds

Canonical has released MicroK8s – a fast and efficient upstream Kubernetes delivered as a single snap package that installs on 42 flavours of Linux. With a small disk and memory footprint, MicroK8s provides an efficient way to get… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Canonical widens Kubernetes support with kubeadm

Canonical is pleased to announce commercial support for Kubernetes clusters deployed using kubeadm. Companies using kubeadm to deploy Kubernetes in production, development or multi-stage environments, can immediately benefit from… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Canonical and Supermicro collaborate to advance enterprises’ Kubernetes adoption

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and Supermicro, a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking and green technologies, today announce a joint offering helping enterprises to accelerate the design and deployment of their… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Minimum viable Kubernetes

The appeal of Kubernetes is universal. Application development, operations and infrastructure teams recognise diverse reasons for its immediate utility and growing potential — a testament of Kubernetes’ empathetic design. Web apps,… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Canonical publishes auto-apply vulnerability patch for Kubernetes

Charmed distribution of Kubernetes clusters auto-apply vulnerability patches for CVE-2018-1002105 On December 3 2018, the Kubernetes project disclosed a security vulnerability in all versions of its popular container orchestration… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Ubuntu Server development summary – 04 December 2018

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 can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode.… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Design and Web team summary – 04 December 2018

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. Web squad Takeovers In collaboration with the marketing team, we have produced three takeovers Apellix webinar: Discover how Apellix has designed revolutionary software… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Collaborative robots – Cobots and the changing nature of work

  This is a guest blog by Jamie Branch, Corrosion Engineer at Apellix. Collaborative robots, or cobots, work side by side with humans to enhance human worker’s ability to perform their job safer, with less monotony and repetitive… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

GitKraken picks up community demand to adopt snaps

Used by the likes of Netflix, Tesla and Apple, GitKraken is the go-to home for developers who are looking for a more user-friendly interface for Git with integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and VSTS (Azure DevOps). Established a… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Running Android in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 A1 instances

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of their new Amazon EC2 A1 instances powered by custom AWS Graviton processors based on the Arm architecture, which brings Arm to the public cloud as a first class citizen. Arm based… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Six reasons why developers choose Ubuntu Desktop

Used in more than 240 countries, by governments, enterprises, and consumers alike, Ubuntu Desktop is the number one Linux operating system (OS) in the world. Ubuntu Desktop is used by leading technology companies in no small part down to… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Ubuntu available in new AWS Marketplace for Containers

The new AWS Marketplace for Containers, launched this week at AWS Re:Invent, provides another fantastic opportunity for developers across public, private and multi-cloud environments to use Ubuntu. The AWS Marketplace provides customers… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Ubuntu Server development summary – 27 November 2018

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 can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode.… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

The power of installed-base snap metrics

The Snap Store is able to provide insightful information to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) about usage of their snap applications. Our goal is to help snap publishers interact better with their users and make the most of their… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Ubuntu at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon

KubeCon and CloudNativeCon are just around the corner and Ubuntu will be out in force. Held between December 10th – 13th at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, KubeCon and CloudNativeCon will be a great opportunity to… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

How to effortlessly modernise your cloud

Companies across all industries have now adopted the cloud computing paradigm, with many leveraging OpenStack to manage private clouds. But what happens when first generation environments become obsolete, non-upgradeable and exposed to… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Goodbye OpenStack, hello Open Infrastructure Summit

We have reached the end of an era, the end of the OpenStack Summit, but we’ve started a new era – the beginning of the Open Infrastructure Summit. Canonical has been with the OpenStack Summit since its inception, designing, building,… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Ubuntu, security & compliance

Security, regulations and compliance are everyday issues for businesses, whether global or not. HIPAA, GDPR, MiFID II, and a whole host of other regulations, security and compliance demands are shaping the way businesses operate and the… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Behind the drone: how aerial robotics solve industrial IOT challenges

  Apellix, an emerging leader in the field of aerial robotics, are creating innovative industrial solutions with the help of Ubuntu. The development of aerial robotic systems to carry out tasks at height has taken the responsibility… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

egmde: a project that uses Mir

Display servers solve a large and complex problem. Mir provides a broad and powerful library to solve those problems, but there is a learning curve to use Mir effectively. It is really helpful to have a step-by-step example that covers… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Mastering the upgrading of OpenStack

This past week the OpenStack Summit has been in Berlin with thousands attending the last of its name, given that it will soon be renamed the Open Infrastructure Summit. Canonical, as a founding member of the OpenStack community, was of… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

OpenStack Summit Berlin 2018, Mark Shuttleworth keynote

Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, took to the stage at the OpenStack Summit Berlin to deliver his keynote, dealing with: product and support, MAAS support for ESXi, upgrading OpenStack smoothly and perfectly portable AI from the cloud… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Upgrading Charmed Kubernetes

This article describes the advantages users of Charmed Kubernetes enjoy through the high degree of automation charms offer the operator. One of the hardest problems of infrastructure-as-a-service operations is upgrading. Charms make it an… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Innovating toward safety: computer controlled aerial robotic systems

This is a guest blog by Jamie Branch, Corrosion Engineer at Apellix. In the United States alone, 849 workers lost their lives in 2016 from falling while on the job. In the construction industry specifically, falls are the leading cause of… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Ubuntu Server development summary – 13 November 2018

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 can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode.… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Using Juju to manage evolving complex software

With developers increasingly moving towards microservices – and with the growing prevalence of the cloud as the default platform – software has become more complex than ever. While installing all of the interconnected applications that… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Ubuntu Core and Kura: A framework for IoT gateways

The Linux distribution model, whilst established and well understood for computing, has some limitations when it comes to IoT edge gateway devices. Due to often being located in remote or hard to access areas, there is a greater demand for… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

How to harness big data for maximum business value

Canonical and Spicule have joined forces to bring your business a better option for open source big data and streaming analytics. You can learn more about us at some of our upcoming events – read on to find out more. Or, jump right… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Samsung announce Linux on DeX with Ubuntu: for developers on the move

The Samsung Developer Conference, held this week in San Francisco, brings creators together to discover and learn about the latest technologies in Samsung’s portfolio and further afield. One of the technologies showcased, following the… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

The rise of the Digital Smart Kiosk

This is a guest blog by Jody Smith, Product Manager at Broadsign. The world’s increasing demand for quick, personalised service often clashes with budgetary concerns and the limited throughput that individual workers are capable of.… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Samsung announce Linux on DeX with Ubuntu: for developers on the move

The Samsung Developer Conference, held this week in San Francisco, brings creators together to discover and learn about the latest technologies in Samsung’s portfolio and further afield. One of the technologies showcased, following the… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Keep legacy applications secure with Extended Security Maintenance

Application updates come and go, often they provide your business with added value, but sometimes an update isn’t what is needed or wanted for a legacy application. Choosing not to update an application can cause issues. Often, that… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

KubeCon and CloudNativeCon

This December, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, will be present at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon in Seattle. The team at Ubuntu will be out in force showcasing their work across Kubernetes and containers and highlighting what makes… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

How Ubuntu is at the forefront of security & compliance

  Whether it is HIPAA, MiFID II or GDPR, the importance of being compliant cannot be underestimated. Protecting your customers and avoiding the significant financial and reputational ramifications that threaten non-compliant… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

A guide to snap permissions and interfaces

Snap is a Linux application package management system which allow developers to easily publish self contained software packages (snaps) that work across many distributions and versions of Linux. Snaps have security at their heart, and are… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes supported on Arm architecture

Today, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announces that Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) is now commercially available and supported on processors and servers based on 64-bit Arm® v8-A architecture. The data centre is… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Statement on the IBM Acquisition of Red Hat

Over the past two years, many prominent Red Hat customers have selected Ubuntu and engaged Canonical to build leaner, more efficient open source infrastructure and solutions for important new initiatives. Among them we count the world’s… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago

Statement on the IBM acquisition of Red Hat

Over the past two years, many prominent Red Hat customers have selected Ubuntu and engaged Canonical to build leaner, more efficient open source infrastructure and solutions for important new initiatives. Among them we count the world’s… | Continue reading


@blog.ubuntu.com | 6 years ago