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Canonical
24 August 2017

From docs to Schema

Cloud and server Article

This article was originally featured on Chad Smith’s blog Is there an echo in here? When looking through cloud-config modules it seemed there was a lot of boilerplate documentation and logic in each module to document and validate accepted configuration keys for the module. Houston, we have a problem Problem 1: Doc rot Cloud-init has ...


Sergio Schvezov
23 August 2017

I me mine: An UbuConLA 2017 Summit Summary

Desktop Article

These are my notes about UbuconLA, a bit of social activities and thoughts on the talks related to the snappy ecosystem.Arriving I left late on thursday for a planned night arrival into Lima, Leo was going to be arriving around 2 hours earlier than me ...


Stéphane Graber
23 August 2017

LXD 2.17 has been released

Cloud and server Article

The changes in this release include New features: Add support for specifying the ceph user (using the “ceph.user.name” property) Implement “instance types” as an easy way to specify limits (e.g. “lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 -t t2.micro”) Add a new “lxc query” command as a low level query tool for the LXD API (similar to curl but ...


Canonical
23 August 2017

Canonical expands enterprise Kubernetes

Canonical announcements News

Canonical supports enterprise Kubernetes on cloud and on-premises Two turnkey consulting packages for rapid deployment Support for Galactic Fog serverless, Rancher container management and Weave Cloud Reference architectures for Kubernetes operations on cloud or bare-metal LONDON, U.K, Aug 23rd, 2017, Canonical today announced two consult ...


Canonical
23 August 2017

Kernel Team Summary: August 23, 2017

Cloud and server Article

Development (Artful / 17.10) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The artful kernel is now based on Linux 4.12. The Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017. The 4.12 kernel is available in the archive for Artful 17.10. It is based on upstream v4.12.8. The Artful staging ...


Canonical
22 August 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 Released!

Cloud and server Article

Hello MAASters!I’m happy to annouce that MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 has now been released and it is currently available in Ubuntu Artful, PPA for Xenial and as a snap.PPA AvailabilityFor those running Ubuntu Xenial and would like to use Alpha 1, please use the following PPA:Snap AvailabilityFor those running from the snap, or would like to test t ...


Sergio Schvezov
22 August 2017

This Week In Snapcraft

Ubuntu Article

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Sergio Schvezov
22 August 2017

Week 33 of 2017 in snapcraft

Desktop Article

Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 14 until August 20 of 2017. Development in master Last week, error handling in snapcraft took the spotlight, this is the list of what happened in master: docs: fix typo in plugin help (PR: #1496) errors: use function for exit code (PR: ...


David Britton
22 August 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 22 Aug 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 ...


Canonical
22 August 2017

SnapRoute and Canonical create new switch stack for network operators

Canonical announcements News

Redefining the economics of data center networking through disaggregation of hardware, operating system, and software components. SnapRoute and Canonical announced today an integrated network stack, creating a rock solid software foundation for white-box and brite-box switch deployments in large environments. FlexSwitch from SnapRoute is ...


Anthony Dillon
22 August 2017

Cookie notification component

Ubuntu Notes

We’ve all seen the annoying cookie notification which website owners are legally obliged to include on their sites. We can’t avoid them, so let’s have some fun with them. Previously, for Canonical’s sites, the cookie notification was a shared CSS file and JavaScript file that we injected into the head of each site. This resulted in ...