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Blog posts with topic "canonical-announcements"

joemcmanus
29 August 2019

LXD in 4 Easy Steps

Cloud and server Article

I needed to install a clean instance of Bionic to test some code, but I did not want to use a full virtual machine as I was in a hurry.  To do this, I used LXD to quickly deploy new Bionic and Xenial instances in minutes.  If you are not familiar with LXD, it is ...

Igor Ljubuncic
29 August 2019

A technical comparison between snaps and debs

Desktop Article

How are snaps different from debs? This is a common question that comes up in technical discussions in the Linux community, especially among developers and users who have just embarked on their snap journey and are interested in learning more details. Indeed, the introduction of self-contained application format likes snaps has created a ...

Kyle Fazzari
28 August 2019

Canonical joins the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee

Internet of Things Article

We at Canonical care deeply about robotics. We firmly believe that robots based on Linux are cheaper to develop, more flexible, more secure, and faster to market. One of the contributing factors to this being the case is the Robot Operating System (ROS). ROS is by far the most popular middleware for creating Linux-powered robots. ...

Andres Rodriguez
28 August 2019

Multi-tenancy in MAAS

Cloud and server Article

In this blog post, we are going to introduce the concept of multi-tenancy in MAAS. This allows operators to have different groups of users own a group of resources (machines) without ever even knowing about other groups of users enabling enhanced machine utilisation. A common use case for medium and large-scale environments is to provide ...

Jeremie Deray
27 August 2019

Components vs. Plugins in ROS 2

Robotics Article

After our series of post about ROS 2 CLI tools (1, 2), we continue exploring the ROS 2 realm taking a look at ROS 2 components and more specifically, how they compare to plugins. spoiler alert: Long story short, components are plugins. Short story long? Is that a thing? Well plugins and components are indeed ...

Alex Cattle
27 August 2019

A guide to developing Android apps on Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

Android is the most popular mobile operating system and is continuing to grow its market share. IDC expects that Android will have 85.5% of the market by 2022, demonstrating that app development on Android will continue to be an in-demand skill. For developers looking to build Android apps, Ubuntu is the ideal platform in conjunction with ...

Sarah Dickinson
27 August 2019

Snaps help Xibo rekindle its relationship with Linux

Internet of Things Article

Sometimes, relationships just don’t work out. At first, it seemed that Xibo and Linux were made for each other. Xibo had a popular open source digital signage and player system, while Linux brought a community of enthusiastic users. Dan Garner of Xibo remembers why they broke up in 2015: “Releasing our player on Linux was ...

anaqvi
26 August 2019

MicroK8s Version 1.16.0 Beta Released!

Ubuntu Article

We’re excited to announce the release of MicroK8s 1.16 beta! MicroK8s is a lightweight and reliable Kubernetes cluster delivered as a single snap package – it can be installed on any Linux distribution which supports snaps or Windows and Mac using Multipass. MicroK8s is small and simple to install and is a great way to ...

Carmine Rimi
26 August 2019

Kubernetes 1.16 beta now available, with support from Canonical

Cloud and server Article

Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.16, starting with the beta release, with support covering the following installation mechanisms – kubeadm, Charmed Kubernetes, and MicroK8s.  The beta release of Kubernetes offers users an opportunity to test some of the upcoming features and to validate containerised workloads ...

Carmine Rimi
26 August 2019

Digest #2019.08.26 – Kubeflow basics, TensorFlow 2.0

AI Article

Kubeflow for Poets – This article introduces the core concepts necessary to understand all of the moving pieces in a Kubeflow based machine learning Pipeline. It includes a brief introduction to microservices, Docker, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, virtualisation, Google cloud and more. Read this article for step-by-step low level interaction with ...

anaqvi
23 August 2019

MicroK8s gets powerful add-ons

Ubuntu Article

We are excited to announce new Cilium and Helm add-ons, coming to MicroK8s! These add-ons add even more power to your Kubernetes environment built on MicroK8s. The Cilium CNI plugin brings enhanced networking features, including Kubernetes NetworkPolicy support, to MicroK8s. You’ll also get direct CLI access to Cilium within MicroK8s usin ...

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