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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The streaming service for the leading communication group in Spain leaves behind outdated applications and adopts a microservices architecture enabled by Canonical.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 ...


Igor Ljubuncic
20 August 2021

Snap usage metrics now available on the command line

Ubuntu Article

For years now, developers and publishers could view how well their snaps are performing in terms of usage and popularity through the Snap Store Web interface, using the metrics tab. This functionality allows people to examine the cause and effect of their work, like software updates, marketing campaigns, or other events. But it requires m ...


Bill Wear
19 August 2021

About MAAS 3.0 and LXD

Cloud and server MAAS

With the release of MAAS 3.0, we moved LXD virtual machines out of Beta. Several articles in the MAAS documentation address LXD.  Since no document ties all these features together, though, it’s time for a topical blog about LXD. About LXD LXD, pronounced “lex-DEE,” is a container manager, as well as a virtual machine manager. ...


Canonical
19 August 2021

Canonical and DFI launch the first Ubuntu certified AMD-based Industrial specialised Pi

Internet of Things Article

Canonical and DFI announce that the GHF51 and EC90A-GH, have been certified, based on the latest AMD-based platform. Both offer improved performance, a smaller footprint, and full access to open-source software with Ubuntu and Ubuntu Core. These are part of the first wave of products that passed the Ubuntu IoT hardware certification. Smal ...


robgibbon
18 August 2021

How to run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the cloud: Part 4

Cloud and server Article

In this series, we’ve been building up an Apache Spark cluster on Kubernetes using MicroK8s, Ubuntu Core OS, LXD and GCP. We’ve learned about and set up nested virtualisation on the cloud, and had some fun. But right, it’s retrospective time: in Part 1, we saw how to get MicroK8s up on LXD, on Ubuntu ...