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Michael C. Jaeger
4 January 2022

Deploy and maintain applications with Charmed Operators

Ubuntu Article

Recently, I remembered a situation when I was in elementary school and visited a friend at his house. At some point, his mother wanted us to go to a neighbour and ask to borrow some eggs. We went a few houses down, opened the garden gate, entered through the door to the house, and arrived ...


Peter Mahnke
28 December 2021

Design and Web team summary – 3 December 2021

Design Article

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team Hi! My name is Peter and I’m a Senior Web Engineer on the Web Team. I worked ...


Alex Chalkias
28 December 2021

Kubernetes infographic: usage of cloud native technology in 2021

Kubernetes Article

2021 has been an interesting year for the Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystem.  Due to the pandemic, cloud adoption saw a big spike in adoption. As the year wraps up soon, we wanted to reflect on the top findings from the Kubernetes and cloud native operations report and we have a cool infographic for you. ...


Nathan Hart
23 December 2021

How-To: Docker on Windows and Mac with Multipass

Tutorials Article

Update: there is now a more streamlined way to run Docker on Multipass – see this tutorial for more details. Original blog below: If you’re looking for an alternative to Docker Desktop or to integrate Docker into your Multipass workflow, this how-to is for you.  Multipass can host a docker engine inside an Ubuntu VM ...


Philip Williams
22 December 2021

A look forward to storage in 2022

Ceph Article

It’s that time of year, where we start to look ahead, and think about the ongoing trends in our various industries. One thing is for certain in the storage industry: capacity demand remains high, with the industry observing continued exponential growth. Growth, growth, growth More and more data is being created every day. It truly ...


Fouaz Bouguerra
17 December 2021

Data centre networking: SmartNICs

Internet of Things Article

Providing an overview of SmartNIC and DPU, its architecture and the main benefits they bring to the modern data centre. ...


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 ...