How should a great K8s distro feel? Try the new Canonical Kubernetes, now in beta

Try the new Canonical Kubernetes beta, our new distribution that combines ZeroOps for small clusters and intelligent automation for larger production environments that also want to benefit from the latest community innovations | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Join Canonical Data and AI team at Data Innovation Summit 2024

Join Canonical Data and AI team at Data Innovation Summit 2024 […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Ubuntu Blog: Canonical’s showcase at HPE Tech Jam 2024

Canonical, a leading advocate for open-source technology, is excited to announce its participation in the HPE Tech Jam 2024, set to take place in Atlanta and Vienna. This prestigious event will convene presales consultants and enterprise architects to delve into groundbreaking st … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

CentOS EOL – What does it mean for Ceph storage?

Out of the darkness and into the light, a new path forward Back in 2020, the CentOS Project announced that they would focus only on CentOS Stream, meaning that CentOS 7 would be the last release with commonality to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The End of Life (EOL) of CentOS 7 on Ju … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Large Language Models (LLMs) Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) using Charmed OpenSearch

This article guides you on leveraging Charmed OpenSearch to maintain a relevant and up-to-date LLM application. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Meet Canonical at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

Join Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, as we proudly return as a gold sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2024. Hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the conference unites adopters and technologists from top open source and cloud-native communities. Mark your cal … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Ubuntu Blog: Create an Ubuntu Core image with Landscape Client included

Canonical recently released the Landscape Client snap which, along with the new snap management features in the Landscape web portal, allows for device management of Ubuntu Core devices. In this blog we will look at how this can be deployed at scale by building a custom Ubunt … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

PostgreSQL for AI applications

If you’re working with AI, you’re working with data.  From numerical data to videos or images, regardless of your industry or use case, every AI project depends on data in some form. The question is: how can you efficiently store that data and use it when building your models? On … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

ESXi Alternative: try open source LXD 

LXD is a modern, secure and robust ESXi alternative. With its intuitive CLI and web interface, users can easily get started and deploy and manage their workloads easily and intuitively. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Join Canonical at 2024 GTC AI Conference

As a key technology partner with NVIDIA, Canonical is proud to showcase our joint solutions at NVIDIA GTC again. Join us in person at NVIDIA GTC on March 18-21, 2024 to explore what’s next in AI and accelerated computing. We will be at booth 1601 in the MLOps & LLMOps Pavilion, d … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Telco-grade Sylva-compliant Canonical platforms

In December 2023, Canonical joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe to provide fully open-source and upstream telco platform solutions to the project. Sylva aims to tackle the fragmentation in telco cloud technologies and the vendor lock-in caused by proprietary platf … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Canonical announces the availability of Real-time Ubuntu for Amazon EKS Anywhere

Collaboration to benefit communication service providers and business application vendors at the telco edge Barcelona, Spain. 28 February 2024. Canonical today announced an expansion of its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make Real-time Ubuntu available to Amazon E … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Canonical announces the general availability of Charmed Kafka

27 February 2024: Today, Canonical announced the release of Charmed Kafka – an advanced solution for Apache Kafka® that provides everything users need to run Apache Kafka at scale.   Apache Kafka is an event store that supports a range of contemporary applications including micro … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Canonical 发布 MicroCloud:人人触手可及的低接触私有云

Canonical 正式发布 MicroCloud — 一款低接触开源云解决方案。MicroCloud 是 Canonical 不断增长的云基础架构产品组合中的一员,专为所有类型企业的可扩展集群和边缘部署而构建。其设计集简单性、安全性和自动化于一身,最大限度地减少了其部署和维护的时间与精力。MicroCloud... | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Crafting new Linux schedulers with sched-ext, Rust and Ubuntu

In our ongoing exploration of Rust and Ubuntu, we delve into an experimental kernel project that leverages these technologies to create new schedulers for Linux. Playing around with CPU scheduling policies has always been a dream for many kernel hackers and OS enthusiasts. Howeve … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Ceph Storage for AI

Use open source Ceph storage to fuel your AI vision The use of AI is a hot topic for any organisation right now. The allure of operational insights, profit, and cost reduction that could be derived from existing data makes it a technology that’s being rolled out at an incredible … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

What is a Kubernetes operator?

Kubernetes is the open source, industry-standard platform for deploying, managing and scaling containerized applications – and applications on Kubernetes are easier with operators. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Migrating from Cloudera to a modern data hub architecture

In the early 2010s, Apache Hadoop captured the imagination of the tech community. A free and powerful open source platform, it gave users a way to process unimaginably large quantities of data, and offered a dazzling variety of tooling to suit nearly every use case – MapReduce fo … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Preview Confidential AI with Ubuntu and Nvidia H100 GPUs on Microsoft Azure

Learn about Confidential AI preview on Azure with Ubuntu confidental VMs and Nvidia H100 GPUs, and explore how confidential computing in the cloud transforms AI security, ensuring utmost confidentiality and integrity for sensitive data and models. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 1 month ago

Edge AI: what, why and how with open source

Edge AI is transforming the way that devices interact with data centres, challenging organisations to stay up to speed with the latest innovations. From AI-powered healthcare instruments to autonomous vehicles, there are plenty of use cases that benefit from artificial intelligen … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

5 Edge Computing Examples You Should Know

In this blog, we’re exploring edge computing examples, its diverse applications and use cases, with a special focus on how Canonical’s MicroCloud fits seamlessly into this transformative landscape. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Firecell and Canonical to demonstrate 5G private mobile network (PMN) solution running on Ubuntu at MWC Barcelona

Paris, France. 14 February 2024. United by a common goal to advance open source software in telecommunications, Firecell and Canonical will demonstrate at this year’s Mobile Wireless Congress (MWC) event in Barcelona, 5G private mobile network (PMN) solutions running on Canonical … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Simplify IoT device management: How to add Ubuntu Core devices to Landscape

Landscape has been a member of the Canonical product list for almost as long as Canonical has existed. Landscape allows administrators to manage their desktop and server instances from a single centralised portal. With the latest release of Landscape Server (23.10), we’ve introdu … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Charmed MongoDB®: use cases for financial services

MongoDB is the ideal fit, and it’s one of the most widely used databases in the financial services industry. It  provides a sturdy, adaptable and trustworthy foundation. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Cloud storage security

Secure your data by using Ceph’s security features How can I securely store data in a cloud storage system? Data is like the crown jewels of any organisation, if lost or exposed there could be severe repercussions.  Failure to protect against system failure could lead to the loss … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Driving towards Environmental Parity and Software-Defined Vehicles with EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu

As the automotive industry continues to advance into the world of high-performance computing (HPC), it becomes increasingly crucial to achieve environmental parity for seamless software integration. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

IBM LinuxONE 4 Express and Ubuntu Server drive data centre performance and economics

Canonical is pleased to announce that Ubuntu Server is optimised and fully supported on IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – the newest addition to IBM’s world-leading LinuxONE server family. The previous model in the Express series, IBM LinuxONE III Express, was immensely popular, and broug … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Operate popular open source on Kubernetes – Attend Operator Day at KubeCon EU 2024

Operate popular open source on Kubernetes – Attend Operator Day at KubeCon EU 2024 | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Generative AI on a GPU-Instance with Ubuntu on AWS: Part 1 – Image Generation

We recently published a technical document showing how to install NVIDIA drivers on a G4DN instance on AWS, where we covered not only how to install the NVIDIA GPU drivers but also how to make sure to get CUDA working for any ML work.  In this document we are going to run one of … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Real-time Linux vs RTOS – Part II

Download our latest Whitepaper: A CTO’s Guide to Real-time Linux Welcome to this two-part blog series on real-time systems which asks the question: Real-time Linux vs RTOS, which is best for you?  In Part I we looked at the basics of a real-time system where we explained that a r … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Driving into 2024 – The automotive trends to look out for in the year ahead

With multiple technological innovations all converging at the same time, we are living in an exciting era for the automotive industry. From AI to 5G, and plenty in between, we can expect to see a host of groundbreaking trends emerge this year. As electric vehicles (EVs) completel … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

AI on-prem: what should you know?

Organisations are reshaping their digital strategies, and AI is at the heart of these changes, with many projects now ready to run in production. Enterprises often start these AI projects on the public cloud because of the ability to minimise the hardware burden. However, as init … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Meet Canonical at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024

The world’s largest and most influential telecommunications exhibition event, Mobile World Congress (MWC), is taking place in Barcelona on 26-29 February 2024. Canonical is excited to join this important annual event once again and meet the telecom industry.  Telecommunications i … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Real-time Linux vs RTOS – Part I

Discover Real-time with our latest whitepaper: A CTO’s Guide to Real-time Linux Welcome to this two-part blog series on Linux vs RTOS (Real-time Operating System). This series will explain the differences between achieving real-time requirements with a Linux kernel and doing the … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Ubuntu AI podcast: AI for day-to-day tasks

Welcome to Ubuntu AI podcast, where we talk about AI with the industry leaders. This episode was recorded in Riga, during the Ubuntu Summit 2023. We’re talking about the implementation of AI solutions for day-to-day tasks with the CEO of Nextcloud Frank Karlitschek. AI usage in N … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Canonical’s recipe for High Performance Computing

In essence, High Performance Computing (HPC) is quite simple. Speed and scale. In practice, the concept is quite complex and hard to achieve. It is not dissimilar to what happens when you go from a regular car to a supercar or a hypercar – the challenges and problems you encounte … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

The kernel of open source: community

It’s easy to see commits as the be-all and end-all of open source. They aren’t. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill post. I’ll come right to the point. It’s time to chmod some perspectives about life, the universe, and everything, at least in the realm of open source. The thesis? Vie … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 2 months ago

Managing software in complex network environments: the Snap Store Proxy

As enterprises grapple with the evolving landscape of security threats, the need to safeguard internal networks from the broader internet is increasingly important. In environments with restricted internet access, it can be difficult to manage software updates in an easy, reliabl … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 3 months ago

Ubuntu Blog: Cloud-native infrastructure – When the future meets the present

We’ve all heard about cloud-native applications in recent years, but what about cloud-native infrastructure? Is there any reason why the infrastructure couldn’t be cloud-native, too? Or maybe it’s already cloud-native, but you’ve never had a chance to dive deep into the stack to … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 3 months ago

High Performance Computing – It’s all about the bottleneck

The term High Performance Computing, HPC, evokes a lot of powerful emotions whenever mentioned. Even people who do not necessarily have vocational knowledge of hardware and software will have an inkling of understanding of what it’s all about; HPC solves problems at speed and sca … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 3 months ago

What is a sovereign cloud?

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, the concept of a sovereign cloud has recently emerged in response to data management challenges. As governments increasingly recognise the importance of safeguarding their data, ensuring compliance with local regulations, and ass … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 3 months ago

The roles in software operators

The software operator design pattern – part 6: Roles As we’ve seen throughout this series, a design pattern is a general solution that has been proven to solve a repeatedly occurring problem when designing software. In my previous blog posts, we examined the basics of the softwar … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 3 months ago

AI in 2024 – What does the future hold?

AI in 2024 | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 3 months ago

Automotive at CES 2024: What to expect

As the automotive industry continues to evolve, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has cemented its position as the premier event for unveiling the latest technological advancements. With each passing year, CES becomes an even more integral platform for showcasing groundbreaking … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 3 months ago

MOTL: N33 NUC

Part 2 – PXE booting My next step is to confirm whether or not the N33 NUC will PXE boot. A moderate Google search didn’t turn up any active documentation that confirmed this. There were feature listings on Amazon for similar NUCS, but who knows if those are reality or marketing? … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 3 months ago

OpenStack with Sunbeam for small-scale private cloud infrastructure

Whenever it comes to a small-scale private cloud infrastructure project roll-out, organisations usually face a serious dilemma. The implementation process often seems complex due to a lack of knowledge, tricky migrations and an immediate need from management to run various extens … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 3 months ago

We wish you RISC-V holidays!

There are three types of computer users: the end user, the system administrator, and the involuntary system administrator. As it happens, everyone has found themselves in the last group at some point or another; you sit down to perform a task relevant to your needs or duties, but … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 months ago

Missed Operator Day at KubeCon NA 2023? – Catch the Replay!

If you missed Operator Day, we have good news: starting January 4th, we will present weekly on-demand events week covering the presentations step by step. […] | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 4 months ago