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Fouaz Bouguerra
17 December 2021

Data centre networking: What is OVN?

Networking Article

Providing an overview of Open Virtual Network (OVN), its architecture and the main drivers behind it in the data centre networking space. ...


Igor Ljubuncic
17 December 2021

Snapcrafters – One for all, all for one

Ubuntu Article

In mid-2017, a small group of techies banded together and formed a team that would specialize in creating community-supported snaps of applications for which there was or would be no upstream support. This team called itself: Snapcrafters. Over time, it slowly, gradually grew, attracting more people and bringing yet more snaps under its u ...


Gabriel Aguiar Noury
17 December 2021

Robotics and Ubuntu rewind 2021

Robotics Article

A year packed with news and events. A year where great competitions came to an end. A year that made us dream with new robots. 2021 inspired us to reach new heights and pursue new breakthroughs.  As we power millions of robotics developers with Ubuntu and our robotics open source tools, we present a recap ...


Canonical
16 December 2021

Log4Shell: Log4j remote code execution vulnerability

Security Article

Last updated on 18th January 2022 to include the latest vulnerability updates. A high impact vulnerability was discovered in Apache Log4j 2, a widely deployed software component used by a lot of Java applications to facilitate logging. An attacker who can control the log messages or their parameters can cause the application to execute ar ...


Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
16 December 2021

How we designed Ubuntu Pro for Confidential Computing on Azure

Confidential computing Confidential computing

Not all data is destined to be public. Moving workloads that handle secret or private data from an on-premise setup to a public cloud introduces a new attack surface with different risks. As the public cloud environment shares its hardware infrastructure, a flaw in the clouds’ isolation mechanisms can be detrimental to the protection of ...


Alex Chalkias
16 December 2021

Canonical Kubernetes 1.23 hits GA

Kubernetes Article

The Kubernetes crew at Canonical is delighted to announce that Canonical Kubernetes 1.23 is now generally available. The team is committed to releasing in tandem with upstream so our users and customers can benefit from the latest features and improvements as soon as they become available. This blog is a quick introduction to Canonical Ku ...


Daniele Procida
15 December 2021

Diátaxis, a new foundation for Canonical documentation

Community Article

Our on-going documentation transformation project aims to make our documentation the best it can possibly be – an exemplar of excellence for the industry. We’re working on four distinct pillars of documentation to achieve this. The first of these pillars is direction. It defines what is quality in documentation, and answers the question: ...


Canonical
15 December 2021

The EPC-U3233 by Advantech gets Ubuntu certified to accelerate AIoT Applications

Internet of Things Article

Canonical and Advantech have collaborated to help enterprises accelerate Edge AIoT Applications with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS certified on the  EPC-U3233, powered by an 8th Gen Intel® Core™ i series processor. This compact fanless embedded PC facilitates data-intensive computing in IoT edge applications. By certifying the Advantech’s EPC-U3233 fo ...


Florencia Cabral Berenfus
15 December 2021

Security vulnerabilities on the Data Distribution Service (DDS)

Robotics Article

Learn more about DDS, and how to stay protected while using it If you are currently running the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2), this piece is especially relevant to the security of your robots. A few weeks ago, a group of security researchers reported 13 security vulnerabilities affecting some of the most used implementations ...


Anton Smith
14 December 2021

Bare metal Kubernetes: The 6 things you wish you knew before 2022

Cloud and server Article

2022 is right around the corner, and it’s not just time to prepare for Christmas, play video games, buy presents, or share anti-Christmas memes. It’s time to start making some predictions for bare metal Kubernetes! Take a minute and let’s think about it. Developers have advent of code so they’re busy right now. Sysadmins and ...


Canonical
14 December 2021

Canonical teams with Xilinx to accelerate the development of adaptive SoCs

Ubuntu Article

Strategic collaboration designed to offer enterprises a seamless path from their evaluation kits development to production for IoT devices across multiple Xilinx device families December 14, 2021: Canonical and Xilinx Inc. announced today the publication of Ubuntu images optimised for Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ evaluation boards and the prod ...