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347 posts from 2021
About MAAS 3.0 and LXD
By Bill Wear, 19 August 2021
With the release of MAAS 3.0, we moved LXD virtual machines out of Beta. Several articles in the MAAS documentation address LXD. Since no document ties all...
Canonical and DFI launch the first Ubuntu certified AMD-based Industrial specialised Pi
By Canonical, 19 August 2021
Canonical and DFI announce that the GHF51 and EC90A-GH, have been certified, based on the latest AMD-based platform. Both offer improved performance, a...
How to run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the cloud: Part 4
By robgibbon, 18 August 2021
In this series, we’ve been building up an Apache Spark cluster on Kubernetes using MicroK8s, Ubuntu Core OS, LXD and GCP. We’ve learned about and set up...
How to run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the cloud: Part 3
By robgibbon, 18 August 2021
If you’ve followed the steps in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, you’ll have a working MicroK8s on the next-gen Ubuntu Core OS deployed, up, and running on...
How to run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the cloud: Part 2
By robgibbon, 18 August 2021
If you have followed Part 1 of this blog post, you’ll have a working setup that allows you to run MicroK8s on Ubuntu Core in a VM on your local workstation...
How to run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the cloud: Part 1
By robgibbon, 18 August 2021
There are some great reasons to use nested virtualisation on compute clouds. Nested virtualisation is when you have Virtual Machines running within Virtual...
Design and Web team summary – 13 August 2021
By Claudio Gomboli, 18 August 2021
The Web & design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of...
Autonomous mobile robots (AMR) – a beginner’s guide to adoption
By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 17 August 2021
Note: This blog follows the autonomous mobile robots structure defined by “Why you’re looking at AGV / AMR technology all wrong” written by Limor Schweitzer....
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS drives high security and regulated workloads with its FIPS 140-2 certification
By Canonical, 17 August 2021
Austin, Texas – Ubuntu, the world’s most popular operating system across private and public clouds has received the FIPS 140-2, Level 1 certification for its...
Open Source Robotics Challenges – Planning for Security
By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 13 August 2021
Open Source Robotics Challenges is a series of blogs that will share guidelines and advice for open source companies to overcome market barriers. We will...
Snapcraft for Windows – Preview
By Igor Ljubuncic, 13 August 2021
Two weeks ago, Snapcraft reached its fifth milestone release, 5.0. This version brings in a number of significant changes, including the removal of the base...
Orchestration in Telcos: the multi-vendor and multi-cloud environments…
By Wajeeha Hamid, 12 August 2021
The use of NFV migration is becoming commonplace, it is made apparent there is a need for a higher degree of software management, smoother upgrades, and...