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What Is a Self-Driving Car? The Complete WIRED Guide

In the past decade, autonomous driving has gone from “maybe possible” to “definitely possible” to “inevitable” to “how did anyone ever think this wasn’t inevitable?” to “now commercially available.”…

How to timestamp YouTube videos and create Key Moments

Web Monkey3 years ago012 mins

Key Moments arrived to Google search in late 2019. They are a feature that enables expansive, prominent video search results, with clickable links to each Chapter in your video.…

Snaps: How we got here

Web Monkey4 years ago024 mins

I’m celebrating nine years at Canonical, and coming up on 15 years since I started contributing to Ubuntu in the community. It’s been quite the ride, helping build, support and advocate for the most popular Linux desktop, and most used Linux distribution in the cloud.…

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade vs extended security maintenance

Web Monkey4 years ago011 mins

Weighing the options with an Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus is transitioning from its five-year standard security maintenance window in four months, leaving many asking the question: can I manage an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade by April 2021, or do I need more time to plan this migration?…

How to switch the Docker container runtime to containerd with Charmed Kubernetes

Web Monkey4 years ago07 mins

This article describes how easy it is for users of Charmed Kubernetes to switch from the Docker container runtime to containerd. You may have heard that Kubernetes is deprecating Docker as a container runtime after v1.20.…

Linux

SUSE OpenStack Cloud reaches the end of life

Web Monkey4 years ago010 mins

Time passes by! A year has passed since SUSE announced its decision to discontinue SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and many enterprises are already affected. This is because SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 reaches the end of life (EOL) in late May 2021.…

Migrating the Launchpad Keyservers from SKS to Hockeypuck

Web Monkey4 years ago011 mins

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.…

Forecasting the future of cloud with OpenStack experts

Web Monkey4 years ago08 mins

OpenStack, the cloud computing platform, has proved to be a beacon of success for open source. It rounds off 10 years in existence this year, a period which has seen it reach nearly 200 countries, and we want to look ahead to what the future holds for the technology. …

Embedded Linux for Teams

Web Monkey4 years ago05 mins

A Linux kernel for each developer team, which uses it to bring up target boards. Bespoke, built, issued, and maintained over years by the vendor. Teams that focus on building great apps, rather than figuring out hardware dependencies.…

Canonical publishes LTS Docker Image Portfolio on Docker Hub

Web Monkey4 years ago08 mins

Ten year maintenance commitment on app images provides secure cloud software supply chain November 24th 2020: Canonical has published the LTS Docker Image Portfolio, a curated set of secure container application images, on Docker Hub.…

Distribute ROS 2 across machines with MicroK8s

Web Monkey4 years ago020 mins

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.…

Mark Shuttleworth on overcoming software complexity

Web Monkey4 years ago02 mins

While today we see an enormous amount of incredible software being published, both by tech giants and niche providers, there is a significant lag in the telco industry’s ability to leverage it. …

Canonical’s Open Operator Collection extends Kubernetes operators to traditional Linux and Windows applications

Web Monkey4 years ago09 mins

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…

10 years and 10 million cores: charting OpenStack’s greatest achievements

Web Monkey4 years ago08 mins

Technology anniversaries have become more commonplace in recent years. The iPhone at 10 years old, indeed Canonical itself turned 15 last year. Here though, we want to look at OpenStack reaching double figures this year. …

Less than 6 months to Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: 6 things to prepare

Web Monkey4 years ago07 mins

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus will enter the extended security maintenance (ESM) period in April 2021. This article explains the ESM period and provides a guide for six key considerations when planning a migration path from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.…

Linux

Malawi’s TNM selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to help lead virtualisation charge

Web Monkey4 years ago07 mins

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.…

ROS 2 on Kubernetes: a simple talker and listener setup

Web Monkey4 years ago022 mins

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.…

Edge-native Linux

Web Monkey4 years ago4 years ago08 mins

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.…

MTS selects OpenStack and Canonical for next-generation cloud infrastructure

Web Monkey4 years ago08 mins

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.…

Open Infrastructure Summit 2020: Highlights from Canonical’s first digital OIS

Web Monkey4 years ago08 mins

Another Open Infrastructure Summit just passed, and yet this one was like no other OIS past. Head-sponsoring the first ever virtual OIS was an interesting experience to say the least, with more than 10,000 community members worldwide hoping on the hand-built OIS platform to see what’s new in the open infrastructure space, connect, and – why not?…