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Dimitri John Ledkov
11 July 2017

Windows 10 loves Ubuntu

Desktop Article

Ubuntu 16.04 is now available as an app from the Windows Store for users running Windows Insider builds. The newly improved app is created by Canonical in collaboration with the Microsoft WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) team as a result of the work announced at Microsoft Build 2017 Conference, after the first unveiling at Build ...


Netplan by default in 17.10

Ubuntu Article

Recently, I uploaded an updated nplan package (version 0.24) to change its Priority: field to important, as well as an update of ubuntu-meta (following a seeds update), to replace ifupdown with nplan in the minimal seed. What this means concretely is that nplan should now be installed by default on all images, part of ubuntu-minimal, ...


Marco Ceppi
7 July 2017

Canonical’s support for Kubernetes 1.7 on Ubuntu released

Cloud and server Article

The official Ubuntu install of Kubernetes is first to deliver the new Kubernetes 1.7 release with full enterprise support. This is a Canonical distribution of pure-upstream Kubernetes, designed for ease of deployment and operations on public clouds and on-premise on bare metal, VMware, or OpenStack. The Canonical distribution osf Kubernet ...


David Britton
7 July 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 07 Jul 2017

Cloud and server Article

Hello Ubuntu Server! The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team ...


If you’re still using ifconfig, you’re living in the past

Cloud and server Article

The world evolves I regularly see “recommendations” to use ifconfig to get interface information in mailing list posts or bug reports and other places. I might even be guilty of it myself. Still, the world of networking has evolved quite a lot since ifconfig was the de-facto standard to bring up a device, check its ...


Will Cooke
7 July 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: July 7, 2017

Desktop Article

  GNOME We’ve been working on the migration and transition processes for users going from Unity 7 to GNOME Shell. We’ve worked on migrating favourites, the Amazon launcher, resetting scaling factors and migrating unity-control-center shortcuts to gnome-control-center. You can read more about the changes to the GNOME session here. This has ...


Corey Bryant
6 July 2017

OpenStack in a Snap

Cloud and server Article

OpenStack is complex and many OpenStack community members are working hard to make the deployment and operation of OpenStack easier. Much of this time is focused on tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Kolla, Juju, Triple-O, Chef (to name a few). But what if we step down a level and also make the package experience easier? ...


Canonical
5 July 2017

Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary: July 5, 2017

Cloud and server Article

This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the Foundations team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-devel channel on freenode. Highlights SRU verification policy change – https://lists ...


Robin Winslow
5 July 2017

Simplifying local development: The ./run executable

Ubuntu User Experience

Canonical’s webteam manage over 18 websites as well as many supporting projects and frameworks. These projects are built with any combination of Python, Ruby, NodeJS, Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB or OpenStack Swift. We have 9 full-time developers – half the number of websites we have. And naturally some of our projects get a lot of time ...


Quick and easy network configuration with Netplan

Cloud and server Article

Earlier this week I uploaded netplan 0.21 in artful, with SRUs in progress for the stable releases. There are still lots of features coming up, but it’s also already quite useful. You can already use it to describe typical network configurations on desktop and servers, all the way to interesting, complicated setups like bond over ...


elopio
5 July 2017

User acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis CI

Desktop Article

Travis CI offers a great continuous integrationservice for the projects hosted in GitHub. With it you can run tests, deliverartifacts and deploy services on pull requests, when they are merged, or withsome other frecuency.Last week theyupdated the ...