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21 posts from December 2020

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade vs extended security maintenance

By Lech Sandecki, 8 December 2020

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...

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

By Canonical, 7 December 2020

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...

SUSE OpenStack Cloud reaches the end of life

By Tytus Kurek, 7 December 2020

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...

When you need the numbers just right – benchmark and profiling applications in the Snap Store

By Igor Ljubuncic, 4 December 2020

The world of software is a vast and complex one, often too difficult to easily assess by human intuition alone. Which is why detailed and accurate...

Migrating the Launchpad Keyservers from SKS to Hockeypuck

By Paul Collins, 3 December 2020

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...

MAAS CLI-only machine creation

By Bill Wear, 2 December 2020

The whole point of MAAS configuration is to get machines deployed. If you read the previous post in this series, you know how to install MAAS and do basic...

Forecasting the future of cloud with OpenStack experts

By Sarah Dickinson, 2 December 2020

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...

Install Amazon EKS Distro anywhere

By Canonical, 1 December 2020

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...

Canonical’s LTS Docker Image Portfolio is now available on Amazon ECR Public

By Canonical, 1 December 2020

Today, Canonical announced the availability of its curated set of secure container application images on Amazon ECR Public, complementing the current...