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anaqvi
13 January 2020

Digest #2020.01.13 –Machine Learning and AI 2020

Ubuntu Kubeflow

Architecture for MLOps using TFX, Kubeflow Pipelines, and Cloud Build – If you’re a data scientist or an enthusiast and have been wanting to try the TFX (TensorFlow Extended), this article is a good place to start. The article also helps guide through setting up CI/CD and CT ( Continuous Training) using Kubeflow Pipelines and ...


Rhys Davies
10 January 2020

The State of Robotics – Robotics Over the Holidays

Robotics Article

Canonical closes for the holidays, but robots just get more festive. Roboticists seem to feel the festive spirit, and it turns their projects into festive robots. The Ubuntu robotics team isn’t quite ready to let go of the festive cheer. So we’d like to share with you some of our favourite projects that we saw ...


Tim McNamara
10 January 2020

Infrastructure-as-Code mistakes and how to avoid them

Cloud and server Article

Two industry trends point to a gap in DevOps tooling chosen by many. Operations teams need more than an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, but a complete model-driven operations mentality. Learn how Canonical has addressed these concerns to create multiple world-leading products. ...


Bill Wear
9 January 2020

MAAS readying enhanced network testing and link checking

MAAS Article

  Enhanced MAAS Network Testing and Link Checking With the upcoming release of MAAS 2.7, Metal-as-a-Service has gained new network testing and link-checking features.  These features identify broken and slow network links when you try to commission machines, notifying you when there are discrepancies. In this release, we also offer the ca ...


Tim McNamara
8 January 2020

Data Ops at petabyte scale

Cloud and server Article

Should you deploy Apache Spark to Kubernetes? Learn how model-driven operations have enabled one data engineering team to evaluate several options and come to an ideal solution. ...


Rhys Davies
7 January 2020

Keep enterprise ROS robots up-to-date with snaps

Robotics Article

When a robot is not up-to-date, it becomes about as useful as an expensive paperweight, or companies have to burn money to get them back online. Yet when mobile apps need updating, it only takes a few clicks and a minute or two before it’s back up and running. This blog discusses how ROS robots ...


Igor Ljubuncic
3 January 2020

Discover cool apps with snap find

Desktop Article

Software discovery and installation broadly comes in two flavors – via graphical user interface or on the command line. If you’re using a Linux distribution with a friendly software frontend offering integrated snap support, e.g. KDE Discover or GNOME Software, you can enjoy the experience without having to resort to using a terminal wind ...


Tytus Kurek
2 January 2020

OpenStack vs VMware: Bringing costs down

Cloud and server Article

Moving to OpenStack from VMware can significantly reduce the TCO associated with an initial roll-out and ongoing maintenance of your cloud infrastructure. OpenStack vs VMware economic analysis shows that under certain circumstances, it is possible to bring the costs down by an entire order of magnitude. This requires choosing an OpenStack ...


nilayshrugged
27 December 2019

This is why smart displays run Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

First impressions count, and making sure your users can see and interact with your product in a seamless way, means selecting the right smart display technology. Read on to find out what hardware features are needed to make a reliable smart display, and why smart displays run Ubuntu Core. Medical imaging to smart displays: There’s ...


Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
25 December 2019

MAAS 2.7, better networking features for server provisioning

Cloud and server Article

Our MAAS team has been hard at work, making life even better for those of you who provision and manage servers and data centres. This hard work has produced a new release, MAAS 2.7! This blog describes how MAAS 2.7 can detect network faults before users run into them, and test network configurations before you ...


anaqvi
23 December 2019

Digest #2019.12.16 – Artificial Intelligence of Things

Ubuntu Kubeflow

AI to Identify Unknown Civil War Soldiers – An interesting piece by Time on the use of Artificial Intelligence for facial recognition; the software calculates the difference between proportions of the face and facial portraits like the eyes to match an uploaded picture with picture available on the web. This allows matching of discoloured ...