MAAS 2.9 is now available
Canonical is happy to announce that MAAS 2.9 is now available. We’ll get to the details of installing it in just a moment, but first, let’s walk through a brief overview of the new features and fixes.…
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MAAS CLI-only machine deployment
Continuing in our series on CLI-only MAAS operation, it’s time to deploy machines. In the previous post, we reached the point of creating and commissioning machines, using only the MAAS CLI.…
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Migrating the Launchpad Keyservers from SKS to Hockeypuck
Ubuntu and Launchpad use OpenPGP keys heavily. Each source package is signed with the uploader’s key, and binary and source package downloads from Ubuntu’s primary archives and from users’ Personal Package Archives (PPAs) are indirectly signed by the publisher process with per-archive keys of its own.…
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Recommended Reads for International Day of Disabled Persons
WordPress.com, as my colleague Anne recently wrote, continues to be a space for people to tell their personal stories and amplify their voices. Today, International Day of Disabled Persons, we’d like to highlight a few perspectives and thoughtful reads to raise awareness of the myriad experiences of disabled people.…
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Distribute ROS 2 across machines with MicroK8s
Introduction
Our simple ROS 2 talker and listener setup runs well on a single Kubernetes node, now let’s distribute it out across multiple computers. This article builds upon our simple ROS 2 talker / listener setup by running it on multiple K8s nodes.…
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Canonical’s Open Operator Collection extends Kubernetes operators to traditional Linux and Windows applications
13th November 2020: Canonical’s Open Operator Collection, the largest collection of application operators, now supports both cloud-native and traditional applications on Windows and Linux. The collection is hosted at Charmhub.io…
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Design and Web team summary – 10th November 2020
The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration.
Meet the team
Hi, my name is Long.…
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Malawi’s TNM selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to help lead virtualisation charge
10 November 2020 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack, an open source private cloud solution that allows businesses to control large pools of computer, storage and networking in a datacentre, has been selected by Telekom Networks Malawi Plc (TNM), to modernise and virtualise its entire telecommunications infrastructure.…
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ROS 2 on Kubernetes: a simple talker and listener setup
Kubernetes and robotics make a great match. However, robots running ROS2 can be tricky to set up with individual components on Kubernetes. In this second part of our blog series about running ROS 2 on Kubernetes, we set up a simple, scalable talker / listener system using MicroK8s on Ubuntu.…
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Edge-native Linux
Tech innovators use Linux to create intelligent devices for homes, factories, buildings, cities or vehicles etc… These things are deployed at the edge, in privacy sensitive or business critical environments.…
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MTS selects OpenStack and Canonical for next-generation cloud infrastructure
5th November, 2020: MOSCOW, Russia – MTS (NYSE:MBT; MOEX:MTSS), Russia’s largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services, announces the selection of Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to power the company’s next-generation cloud infrastructure.…
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Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.10. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack.…
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How Kubernetes is transforming the industrial edge
According to leading independent researchers teknowlogy | PAC, open source platforms – and Kubernetes in particular – are central to the future of digital factories.
The PAC RADAR report offers a detailed market analysis of industrial digitalisation trends, and it predicts that Kubernetes-based platforms that bring together edge and cloud technologies will soon dominate the digital factory landscape.…
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How Blue/Green Deployment Strategy Works
Blue/Green deployment strategy is used for zero-downtime deployments. The importance of this method is that even if something goes wrong during deployment, it reduces the downtime and risk by switching blue/green server availability.…
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Deploy Mautic in Azure with Bunnyshell Tutorial
Mautic is a powerful tool that focuses on Equality. The Mautic community believes in giving every person the power to understand, manage, and grow their business or organization. What is nice about Mautic is the fact that it focuses on helping this belief become a reality by getting powerful marketing automation software into the hands of everyone.…
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