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341 posts from 2020
Encryption at rest with Ceph
By Alex Chalkias, 2 July 2020
Do you have a big data center? Do you have terabytes of confidential data stored in that data center? Are you worried that your data might be exposed to...
Data centre automation for HPC
By Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez, 29 June 2020
Friction points in HPC DevOps Many High Performance Computing (HPC) setups are still handcrafted configurations where tuning changes can take days or weeks....
Installing ROS in LXD Containers
By sidfaber, 29 June 2020
It’s the season for updates. The last few weeks have ushered in ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2 Foxy, both of which target the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 Focal...
What is Apache Kafka?
By robgibbon, 29 June 2020
Discover Charmed Kafka Everyone hates waiting in a queue. On the other hand, when you’re routing an absolute storm of event data around a cloud environment,...
Split Personality Snaps
By Alan Pope, 25 June 2020
Broadly speaking, most snaps in the Snap Store fall into one of two categories, desktop applications and server daemons. The graphical applications such as...
Weekend watch list
By Rui Vasconcelos, 25 June 2020
Kubeflow 101 – Hyperparameter tuning with Katib The Kubeflow 101 series of short videos is a great way to quickly get up to speed on Kubeflow concepts. This...
Open source holds the key to autonomous vehicles
By Adi Singh, 25 June 2020
A growing number of car companies have made their autonomous vehicle (AV) datasets public in recent years. Daimler fueled the trend by making its Cityscapes...
Ceph storage on VMware
By Alex Chalkias, 25 June 2020
If you were thinking that nothing will change in your VMware data centre in the following years, think again. Data centre storage is experiencing a paradigm...
Demystifying Kubeflow pipelines: Data science workflows on Kubernetes – Part 1
By Rui Vasconcelos, 24 June 2020
Kubeflow Pipelines are a great way to build portable, scalable machine learning workflows. It is one part of a larger Kubeflow ecosystem that aims to reduce...
MAAS 2.8 – new features
By Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez, 24 June 2020
What’s new? This new release of MAAS brings three key new benefits: Virtual machines with LXD (Beta) Tighter, more responsive UX External/remote PostgreSQL...
Ubuntu Masters 3: the community expands
By anastasiavalti, 24 June 2020
What is Ubuntu Masters? The Ubuntu Masters conference stemmed from a vision to bring the engineering community together to freely exchange innovative ideas,...
AMD EPYC Rome support in Ubuntu Server
By esj, 24 June 2020
The second generation of AMD EPYC central processing unit (CPU), codenamed Rome, provides outstanding performance and “hardened at the code” security. It was...