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Canonical
30 March 2023

Time to prepare for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS end of standard support on 31 May 2023 – Options for AWS users.

Cloud and server Article

As mentioned in our recent blog post, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ‘Bionic Beaver‘ will reach the end of the standard five-year maintenance window on 31 May 2023. This means that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS servers will stop receiving updates unless you are an Ubuntu Pro subscriber. With an Ubuntu Pro subscription, your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS deployment will ...


Holly Hall
29 March 2023

3 reasons why OTA updates are important [Part II]

IoT Article

In the first part of this blog series, we covered what the term ‘OTA’ means and some key advantages and considerations of using OTA technology in IoT. Read more about what OTA means in the blog post here. Devices are everywhere but they all need maintenance. Maintaining household gadgets such as laptops, printers and smart ...


Canonical
29 March 2023

Charmed Kubeflow 1.7 is now available

AI Article

Run serverless ML workloads. Optimise models for deep learning. Expand your data science tooling.  Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced today the general availability of Charmed Kubeflow 1.7. Charmed Kubeflow is an open-source, end-to-end MLOps platform that can run on any cloud, including hybrid cloud or multi-cloud scenarios. T ...


Nathan Hart
28 March 2023

How to create a VSCode Linux remote environment

Ubuntu Article

What’s the best way to get a Linux environment in VSCode? Developers love Visual Studio Code (VSCode) for its flexibility and for its goldilocks balance of powerful features and lightness / speed. VSCode is a popular choice for developers using Linux, but even those using it on Mac or Windows often look for ways to ...


Henry Coggill
27 March 2023

What is System Hardening? Essential Checklists from OS to Applications

CIS Benchmarks Article

Hardening a system aims to decrease its exposure to make it difficult to hack, and to lessen the potential collateral damage in the event of a compromise. ...


Yalton Ruiz
24 March 2023

MicroK8s is now on AWS marketplace

Kubernetes Article

MicroK8s is now on AWS marketplace Everyone knows that MicroK8s is an extremely lightweight, extensible, reliable, CNCF-compliant distribution of Kubernetes. What you didn’t know until now is that it is even easier to install and manage as part of your AWS marketplace experience. First, a quick reminder of why MicroK8s is great: CNCF conf ...


Michael C. Jaeger
24 March 2023

The Indico software operator is now available to optimise event management

Charms Article

With Juju, Indico can be easily deployed on private clouds as well as on a public cloud. Juju and Charmed Operators provide for all the elements of Indico, such as the Web server, storage, and databases, a uniform interface for operations and an abstraction from the deployment infrastructure – reducing efforts significantly. ...


Giuseppe Barbieri
23 March 2023

Snapping out of Docker: a robotics guide for migrating Docker to Snap

Robotics Article

In this blog post, we are going to see when and how to migrate a ROS application currently deployed with Docker to Snap. This topic is also covered on our documentation website. We will use the web-based joystick application developed by Husarion, (GitHub – husarion/webui-ros-joystick) as an example. This application is used to send veloc ...


Canonical
23 March 2023

Canonical collaborates with NVIDIA to unlock advanced capabilities for IoT industry

Ubuntu Article

Ubuntu, the open-source OS of choice for developers, now certified for world-leading NVIDIA Orin AIoT platform  ●   Certified Ubuntu to underpin NVIDIA IoT solutions spanning robotics, manufacturing, industrial and medical industries. ●   State-of-the-art security with optional SLA-backed support to accelerate transition to industry 4.0 w ...


Philip Williams
22 March 2023

Meet the Canonical Ceph team at Cephalocon 2023

Ceph Article

Date: April 16-18th, 2023 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands In just a few weeks, Cephalocon will be held at the Pakhuis de Zwijger cultural centre in Amsterdam.  After a pandemic induced hiatus, this will be the first major gathering of Ceph developers and users in almost 4 years! Canonical Ubuntu is proud to be sponsoring the event. ...