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Bill Wear
25 February 2020

Quick-add KVMs for MAAS

Cloud and server MAAS

When designing or testing with MAAS, it’s often handy to start with virtual machines. If you’re just on your laptop, and you want to check out a new MAAS version, or mock up some datacentre idea you’ve been considering, KVMs are often very useful. You could create pods, of course, but it’s also very simple ...


Igor Ljubuncic
20 February 2020

Parallel installs for classic snaps

Ubuntu Article

For a while now, snapd has supported the ability to install and use multiple instances of the same snap in parallel. This allows users to test features in new software releases side by side with the stable, production versions. Similarly, users can distribute their work or perhaps use custom settings across several distinct, isolated prof ...


Bill Wear
19 February 2020

MAAS doc example: MGH

Cloud and server MAAS

We’re creating a cohesive example to give the MAAS documentation some built-in coherence. Have a look. ...


Canonical
19 February 2020

Bosch Rexroth adopts Ubuntu Core and snaps for app-based ctrlX AUTOMATION platform

Canonical announcements Article

19th February 2020 – Canonical today announced that Bosch Rexroth has selected Ubuntu Core for their app-based platform ctrlX AUTOMATION. ctrlX AUTOMATION leverages Ubuntu Core, designed for embedded devices, and snaps, the universal Linux application containers, to deliver an open source platform to remove the barriers between machine co ...


Bill Wear
18 February 2020

MAAS 2.7 released

Cloud and server MAAS

Following on from MAAS 2.6.2, we are happy to announce that MAAS 2.7 is now available. This release features some critical bug fixes, along with some exciting new features. CentOS 8 image support For some time, our users have been asking for the capability to deploy CentOS 8 images in MAAS. With the advent of ...


Alex Chalkias
18 February 2020

Ceph storage on Ubuntu: An overview

Ceph Article

Ceph is a compelling open-source alternative to proprietary software-defined storage solutions from traditional vendors, with a vibrant community collaborating on the technology. Ubuntu was an early supporter of Ceph and its community. That support continues today as Canonical maintains premier member status and serves on the governing bo ...


Peter Mahnke
18 February 2020

Design and Web team summary – 14 February 2020

Ubuntu Design

The Web and Design team at Canonical looks after most of our main websites, the brand, our Vanilla CSS framework and several of our products with web front-ends.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work over our last two-week iteration. Web & Brand squad Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of ...


Tytus Kurek
18 February 2020

OpenStack Charms 20.02 – CephFS backend for Manila and more

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.02. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. CephFS backend for Manila The OpenStack Charms 20.02 release introduces support for Ceph File System (CephFS) to be used as stora ...


Alex Cattle
14 February 2020

Accelerating IoT device time to market

Internet of Things Article

Launching IoT devices and managing them at scale can be a time intensive and complex process. With 85% of IoT initiatives not launched after a year of development, it is inevitable that change is needed. To overcome these challenges, Canonical has introduced Smart Start, a package that reduces business and technical decision making into a ...


Canonical
11 February 2020

Amazon EC2 Hibernation for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS now available

Cloud and server Article

AWS and Canonical today announce the public release of Amazon EC2 Hibernation support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, bringing support for this feature on par with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Hibernation allows you to pause your Amazon EC2 Instances when not required and resume them at a later time. Applications will start up exactly from where they ...


Rhys Davies
11 February 2020

Ubuntu at Embedded World 2020

Internet of Things Article

Embedded world 2020 is the trade fair for embedded systems technology. Given the rapid miniaturisation of hardware and the increasing scope of high performance computing, thousands of exhibitors use the show to take the stage and show off their work. This year Canonical is returning to discuss how to make embedded Linux, more developer-fr ...