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cmoullec
20 July 2020

Employee spotlight: Alice Cambridge, Inside Sales Representative

People and culture Article

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? This blog will be the first in a series getting to know some of the different employees that make up our company. We will be talking to people across roles and departments, starting with Alice Cambridge. Alice joined Canonical as a new ...


Rui Vasconcelos
17 July 2020

Kubeflow latest events

Ubuntu Article

Kubeflow dojo by IBM IBM organizes a 2-day Kubeflow dojo to get you up to speed on Kubeflow. If you did not have a chance to attend, check out the videos and slides here: Kubeflow Dojo by IBM Pipelines webinar by Canonical Canonical hosts one webinar alongside blog series to demystify Kubeflow pipelines and help ...


cmoullec
17 July 2020

Best practices for an effective remote team in the world of cloud delivery

Cloud and server Article

Just like countless other business functions, cloud delivery has now shifted entirely to remote working for now and perhaps longer term. Canonical has been a remote-first company for some time, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to share some of the best practices we’ve learned along the way. Communication Effective communication be ...


sidfaber
17 July 2020

ROS Security Benchmark open for public comment

Robotics Article

We’re pleased to announce that the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has publicly released the ROS Security Benchmark for community discussion. When published, this benchmark will document community best-practice configuration settings to properly secure ROS Melodic running on Ubuntu Bionic. Hopefully this is just the beginning of an ong ...


Canonical
15 July 2020

Canonical launches enhanced GSI partner programme, bringing scalability and automation to modernise enterprise IT deployments

Ubuntu Article

15 July 2020: Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announces the launch of its enhanced Global System Integrator (GSI) Programme. Alongside new partnership benefits, it includes resell and integration opportunities for the entirety of Canonical’s secure, open source portfolio for the data centre, multi-cloud, edge and IoT. GSIs can n ...


anastasiavalti
13 July 2020

Kubernetes from cloud to edge: A US virtual event

Kubernetes Article

Register for the event Who is this event for? After the huge success of its latest virtual event on Kubernetes for the EMEA region, Canonical brings its expertise to the US with another educational discussion. On July 31st, Canonical’s panel of experts come together to share their insights from years of working with developers and ...


sidfaber
13 July 2020

Robotics Recap: Learning, Programming & Snapping ROS 2

Robotics Article

Robotics@Canonical puts a strong focus on the migration from ROS to ROS 2. ROS 2 benefits from many improvements, especially robot security. Our goal is to make it easy for you to transition to ROS 2, whether you’re completely new to ROS or a seasoned engineer retooling for a new environment. Your new platform should ...


Joshua Powers
9 July 2020

Ubuntu Support of AWS Graviton2 Instances

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog Ubuntu is the industry-leading operating system for use in the cloud. Every day millions of Ubuntu instances are launched in private and public clouds around the world. Canonical takes pride in offering support for the latest cloud features and functionality. As of today, all Ubuntu ...


Igor Ljubuncic
9 July 2020

How to manage snap updates

Cloud and server Article

Updates are an integral part of the software lifecycle. Quite often, they bring improvements, vital security patches – and sometimes, unfortunately, bugs, too. In mission-critical environments, it is important to assert a high degree of oversight and precision over updates. Snaps come with a built-in automatic update mechanism, whereby sn ...


Alex Chalkias
9 July 2020

MicroK8s HA tech preview is now available

Cloud and server Article

High availability (HA) for MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes, is now available as a tech preview for Linux, Windows and macOS. The Kubernetes control plane can now be distributed across multiple nodes, bringing resiliency to the cluster while maintaining a low footprint using Dqlite, the distributed SQL engine as the Kubernetes datasto ...


Canonical
8 July 2020

Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter

Canonical announcements Article

By Chris Sells (Google) & Ken VanDine (Canonical) Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that run at native speeds no matter what platform you target. To validate this capability, we started by focusing on the mobile platforms, Android and iOS, where we’ve seen more than ...