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The State of Robotics – November 2020

Goodbye Thanksgiving (well, for some of us), hello Christmas! The holiday season really is the best, and it always brings interesting robotics news, which we will now distill into a quick dose of delightful and easily-digestible tidbits.…

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade vs extended security maintenance

Web Monkey3 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 Monkey3 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.…

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SUSE OpenStack Cloud reaches the end of life

Web Monkey3 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.…

Forecasting the future of cloud with OpenStack experts

Web Monkey3 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. …

Install Amazon EKS Distro anywhere

Web Monkey3 years ago02 mins

One install, one cluster, snap! Today, we’re excited to announce that EKS is available outside of AWS, on any Ubuntu system, with the EKS snap. This announcement builds on the existing collaboration between Amazon and Canonical to ensure the quality, security, and usability of Ubuntu-based EKS clusters on AWS.…

Design and Web team summary – 24th November 2020

Web Monkey3 years ago016 mins

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, I am Carlos Wu.…

Canonical publishes LTS Docker Image Portfolio on Docker Hub

Web Monkey3 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.…

Exploring ROS 2 Kubernetes configurations

Web Monkey3 years ago030 mins

Kubernetes and robotics make a great match. However, as we have seen, robots running ROS 2 can be tricky to set up on Kubernetes. This blog series has explored running ROS 2 on Kubernetes, set up a simple talker and listener, and distributed that demo across three machines.…

Distribute ROS 2 across machines with MicroK8s

Web Monkey3 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.…

Edge computing is dead, long live micro clouds and IoT gateways

Web Monkey3 years ago010 mins

“The King is dead, long live the King.” It might be my french roots speaking, but it seems that actual use cases are replacing King Edge, and it might be for the best.…

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

Web Monkey3 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…

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

Web Monkey3 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.…

ROS 2 on Kubernetes: a simple talker and listener setup

Web Monkey3 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.…

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Ubuntu at ROS World 2020: Learn how to do more for your robot

Web Monkey3 years ago010 mins

Get your free ticket Book a meeting Come and connect with the Ubuntu robotics team on November 12th to answer all of your questions. This is the first time ROSCon has ever been virtual and is the first time it’s ever been free to attend, so we’re looking forward to seeing tons of new faces!…

Deploying Kubeflow everywhere: desktop, edge, and IoT devices

Web Monkey3 years ago06 mins

Kubeflow, the ML toolkit on K8s, now fits on your desktop and edge devices! ? Data science workflows on Kubernetes Kubeflow provides the cloud-native interface between Kubernetes and data science tools: libraries, frameworks, pipelines, and notebooks.…

OpenStack Charms 20.10 – Victoria, OVN, CNTT and more

Web Monkey3 years ago07 mins

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.…

How Kubernetes is transforming the industrial edge

Web Monkey3 years ago06 mins

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.…

Exploring ROS 2 with Kubernetes

Web Monkey3 years ago014 mins

Kubernetes provides many critical attributes that can contribute to a robust robotics platform: isolated workloads, automated deployments, self-configuring work processes, and an infrastructure that is both declarative and immutable.…