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Marco Ceppi
12 April 2017

General availability of Kubernetes 1.6 on Ubuntu

Cloud and server News

We are proud to release the latest Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) supporting Kubernetes version 1.6.1! Kubernetes 1.6 is a major milestone and it is recommended that you read the upstream release notes for new features and changes. GA Features Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes, CDK, offers a production grade method for in ...


Jane Silber
12 April 2017

A new vantage point

Canonical announcements Article

I joined Canonical as COO in 2004, excited by the vision of Ubuntu and the possibilities that could unfold from the software, the collaboration with the open source community, the energy of an international, distributed start-up and the impact it could have on the world. When Mark asked me to become CEO in 2010, I ...


David Callé
11 April 2017

Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 and 26

Desktop Article

As part as our mission to get snaps running everywhere, we are pleased to announce that support for snaps has now officially landed in Fedora, starting with Fedora 24 and up. Big thanks to Neal Gompa who has been instrumental in landing snapd packages in the Fedora archive! Install your first snap on Fedora 1) ...


Dustin Kirkland
11 April 2017

FAQs: Ensuring the ongoing security compliance of Ubuntu

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical recently announced that the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017. Following the end-of-life of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Canonical is offering Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance), which provides important security fixes for the kernel and the most essential user space packages in Ub ...


Canonical
11 April 2017

RobotCheers uses Ubuntu to create hospitality robots

Internet of Things Article

Meet Spiro. Spiro greets you after a long day of travel, answers questions related to your stay and can give you a guided tour – in essence, all that a hotel concierge offers. Spiro was developed by RobotCheers to enhance the customer experience and is running in hotels across China. The service robot industry is ...


Maarten Ectors
10 April 2017

The smartest industry 4.0 crane

Internet of Things Article

Lots of big name industrial players are launching IoT platforms and are hopeful that their big data analytics, open APIs, and other features will catapult them to be the leader of industry 4.0. If you don’t have an OT background, you aren’t relevant. I tend to disagree. We don’t need yet another CloudFoundry, Hadoop, Time ...


didrocks
6 April 2017

Fresh Snaps from March 2017

Desktop Article

It’s that time of the month! We’ve put together a selection of top ten snaps written in March ranging from snapping an electron app through to a simple screen recorder! To recap for those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many advantages over ...


Kyle Fazzari
6 April 2017

From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct. For latest updated documentation about robotics in Canonical please visit https://ubuntu.com/robotics/docs. My background is pretty heavily littered with robotics. A natural side effect of this is that I’ve published numerous posts discussing ...


Canonical
5 April 2017

Growing Ubuntu for cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence

Canonical announcements News

This is a post by Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu and Canonical We are wrapping up an excellent quarter and an excellent year for the company, with performance in many teams and products that we can be proud of. As we head into the new fiscal year, it’s appropriate to reassess each of our initiatives. ...


Maarten Ectors
5 April 2017

How Bosch Rexroth is innovating the PLC market

Internet of Things Article

Last year I introduced a new concept called App Logic Controller or ALC. You basically run an app store on a PLC type of device and as such any industrial protocol, edge analytics, cloud or other industrial integration is an app away. Developers can make industrial solutions in days if not hours via open source ...


Udi Nachmany
5 April 2017

Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel

Cloud and server Article

Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most popular public cloud. Official Ubuntu guest images have been available on AWS for years, and underlie the majority of workloads on the service—whether you use the EC2 Quickstart, Mark ...