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Blog


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 ...


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 ...


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 ...


Carmine Rimi
20 August 2019

How AI is changing Recruiting

AI Article

How AI Is Changing The Game For Recruiting – In this use case spotlight, we review how machine learning toolkits like Kubeflow and AI are changing the recruiting industry. Talent acquisition is expensive, and getting it wrong is more expensive. AI can helping improve talent acquisition efficiency and effectiveness. From finding the right ...


Robin Winslow
19 August 2019

Design and Web team summary – 16 August 2019

Ubuntu Article

This iteration was the Web & design team’s first iteration of the second half of our roadmap cycle, after returning from the mid-cycle roadmap sprint in Toronto 2 weeks ago. Priorities have moved around a bit since before the cycle, and we made a good start on the new priorities for the next 3 months.  ...


Andres Rodriguez
12 August 2019

Provisioning ESXi with MAAS: An overview

Cloud and server Article

MAAS has supported provisioning ESXi starting from MAAS 2.5. However, MAAS 2.6 has expanded its support and provides new features that significantly improves the provisioning experience. What is supported? The support MAAS provides for provisioning an operating system varies depending on the operating system in use. Even though MAAS tries ...


Sarah Dickinson
12 August 2019

Julia and Jeff discover the ease of snaps at the Snapcraft Summit

Desktop Desktop

Julia is an open source, high-level, general-purpose, dynamic programming language designed for numerical analysis and computational science, launched in 2012. It solves the “two language” problem: developers can use Julia for both computational and interactive work, instead of needing to work with two different languages which can often ...


Carmine Rimi
12 August 2019

Digest #2019.08.12 – The Kubeflow Machine Learning Toolkit

AI Article

Kubeflow — a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes – An introduction to Kubeflow from the perspective of a data scientist. This article quickly runs through some key components – Notebooks, Model Training, Fairing, Hyperparameter Tuning (Katib), Pipelines, Experiments, and Model Serving. If you are looking for a quick overview, give thi ...


Jeremie Deray
7 August 2019

Creating a ROS 2 CLI command and verb

Robotics Article

Following our previous post on ROS 2 CLI (Command Line Interface), we will see here how one can extend the set of existing CLI tools by introducing a new command and its related verb(s). As support for this tutorial, we will create a ‘Hello World’ example so that the new command will be hello and ...