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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
21 September 2017

Kubernetes Snaps: The Quick Version

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on George Kraft’s blog When we built the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK), one of our goals was to provide snap packages for the various Kubernetes clients and services: kubectl, kube-apiserver, kubelet, etc. While we mainly built the snaps for use in CDK, they are freely available to use for oth ...


Canonical
21 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 21, 2017

Cloud and server Article

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com During the last week ...


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20 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary – September 20, 2017

Cloud and server Article

September 13 through September 18 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~1 week away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~2 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~3 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~4 weeks away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubu ...


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19 September 2017

Webinar: OpenStack Pike is here, what’s new?

Cloud and server Article

Sign up for our new webinar about the Canonical OpenStack Pike release. Join us to learn about the new features and how to upgrade from Ocata to Pike using OpenStack Charms.   ...


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18 September 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 3 release!

Cloud and server Article

MAAS 2.3.0 (alpha3)New Features & ImprovementsHardware Testing (backend only)MAAS has now introduced an improved hardware testing framework. This new framework allows MAAS to test individual components of a single machine, as well as providing better feedback to the user for each of those tests. This feature has introduced:Ability to defi ...


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14 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 14, 2017

Cloud and server Article

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com During the last week ...


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13 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary – September 13, 2017

Cloud and server Article

September 05 through September 12 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~2 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~3 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~4 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~5 weeks away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ub ...


Canonical
13 September 2017

NEC partners with Canonical on Ubuntu Core based signage platform

Canonical announcements News

CMS digital signage solution leverages NEC large format displays and the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 Munich, 13 September 2017 – NEC Display Solutions Europe today announced a collaboration with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Core and Screenly, the leading digital signage software solution for Raspberry Pi. This is one of several ...


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7 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 7, 2017

Cloud and server Article

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com During the last week ...


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7 September 2017

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 2

Internet of Things Article

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services (Part 1) Tracks With tracks, developers can give a group of users the ability to stay on a robust, proven version of their software, even when a newer stable version has been released. Using a track can be useful if the newer stable version has some ...


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6 September 2017

Kernel Team Summary: September 6, 2017

Cloud and server Article

Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Final Beta – Sept 28 (~3 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~4 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~5 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~6 weeks away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The Artful kern ...


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5 September 2017

MAAS Development Update – Aug 21st – Sept 1st

Cloud and server Article

Hello MAASters! This is the development summary for the past couple of weeks:MAAS 2.3 (current development release)Hardware Testing Phase 2Added parameters form for script parameters validation.Accept and validate results from nodes.Added hardware testing 7zip CPU benchmarking builtin script.WIP – ability to send parameters to test script ...