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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
1 September 2021

Cybersecurity with Ubuntu

Cloud and server White paper

The cybersecurity state of affairs can be described as too complex today. There is an enormous number of threats endangering sensitive data for the average IT team to cope with. Threats ranging from exposure of physical assets stored in an office, to “social engineering” attacks resulting in unauthorized access, or even threats that explo ...


robgibbon
30 August 2021

Cloud PaaS through the lens of open source – opinion

Data Systems Article

Opinion piece by Rob Gibbon – Product Manager at Canonical. All views expressed are the author’s own. The open source perspective viz. PaaS Open source software, as the name suggests, is developed in the open. The software can be freely inspected by anyone, and can be freely patched as required to suit the security requirements ...


Michele Mancioppi
30 August 2021

Model-driven observability: Taming alert storms

Charms Article

Model-driven observability and its strong notion of topology provide easy-to-apply alert management capabilities to avoid alert storms and help find root causes faster. ...


Rhys Davies
27 August 2021

Winners of the 21.10 Wallpaper competition

Desktop Article

Congratulations to our winners! With over 200 submissions and several hundred voters, the competition was tough. But, the votes are in, and here are the winning wallpapers. The first two make it into the official release 21.10 image and are automatically entered into the runnings for 22.04. The other eight you see here will be ...


robgibbon
27 August 2021

DataOps: keeping the data flowing with Model-driven Operations

Data Systems Article

DataOps: Prologue – why is it so hard? If you’ve ever lived DataOps, you’ll know that it’s a challenge at the best of times. A day in the life of a typical data engineering team involves securing, releasing, debugging and stabilising complex and oftentimes fragile data pipelines. These pipelines can involve many source applications and ...


robgibbon
25 August 2021

Happy birthday – 30 Years of Linux

Desktop Article

Won’t be big Thirty years ago today, Linus Torvalds announced his free operating system to the world. As with many of the world’s greatest, Linux had humble beginnings as a very small pet project. The GNU was working on an ambitious free, public domain operating system but the project had been delayed, and enthusiasts were ...


Canonical
24 August 2021

Atresmedia modernises Spain’s most popular streaming platform with Canonical Charmed Kubernetes

Canonical announcements Article

The streaming service for the leading communication group in Spain leaves behind outdated applications and adopts a microservices architecture enabled by Canonical. SPAIN, August 24, 2021— Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces that Atresmedia, the leading company in the Over-The-Top (OTT) services market in Spain, selected its Cha ...


Omar Ali Amin
23 August 2021

Kubernetes Fully Managed – half the cost of AWS

Cloud and server Article

Simplifiying Kubernetes adoption – How can you run a fully managed Kubernetes in a private cloud at half the cost of Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) ...


Gabriel Aguiar Noury
22 August 2021

The State of Robotics – July 2021

Robotics Article

From autonomous mobile robots to robot butlers. It is impressive to see how much progress has been made in the last decade.  Thanks to our open source robotics community we keep learning, and this newsletter is filled with events, R&D updates, new products and tutorials for you. Thanks July!  Open source robotics events – ROS ...


Michele Mancioppi
22 August 2021

Model-driven observability: the magic of Juju topology for metrics

Charms Article

Learn how model-driven observability with Juju can drastically improve the quality of the insights you get from your monitoring telemetry. ...


Rhys Davies
20 August 2021

Vote in the Ubuntu 21.10 wallpaper competition

Desktop Article

The time has come. It’s time to vote for the 10  images you would like included in the official Ubuntu 21.10 release as optional wallpapers. Submissions have closed. Thank you to everyone who has participated so far <3 Vote here Brace yourself, there’s a lot. We have a total of 202 submissions, more than ever ...