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Alex Murray
1 February 2021

Private home directories for Ubuntu 21.04

Ubuntu Article

Ubuntu has evolved a lot since its early beginnings as an easier-to-use derivative of Debian that catered primarily to the nascent Linux desktop market. Today Ubuntu is deployed beyond just your laptops at home and in the office.  Nowadays you are more likely to find Ubuntu in the cloud, powering some of the world’s best ...


Igor Ljubuncic
28 January 2021

Want to publish a snap? Here’s a list of dos and don’ts

Desktop Article

Technology is a medium that enables us to achieve things in life, ideally in a pleasant way. In the software world, operating systems, programming languages and application frameworks are the tools of the trade. But you need the right tool for the right job. If you’re thinking about writing or porting your code to snaps, ...


Anthony Dillon
27 January 2021

Design and Web team summary – 27th January 2021

Design Design

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s promotional sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Refresh of cloud-images.ubuntu.com The Ubuntu Cloud Images website was overdue a r ...


anastasiavalti
27 January 2021

Kubernetes and Ubuntu: 2020 roundup

Kubernetes Article

Highlights from Canonical & Ubuntu’s activities, content, and product updates around Kubernetes in 2020. ...


Rui Vasconcelos
26 January 2021

Latest Kubeflow posts

Ubuntu Article

Scaling Keras on Kubernetes with Kubeflow In this week’s blog post, Kirill Goltsman has deconstructed how to use Kubeflow, TFOperator, MPI Operator to train and deploy Keras models at scale. Check out his blog post! How Kubeflow & MLOps can help security David Aronchick, co-founder of Kubeflow and head of OSS ML Strategy at Microsoft ...


Alan Pope
21 January 2021

Compact and Bijou

Ubuntu Development

Snaps are designed to be self-contained packages of binaries, libraries and other assets. A snap might end up being quite bulky if the primary application it contains has many additional dependencies. This is a by-product of the snap needing to run on any Linux distribution where dependencies cannot always be expected to be installed. Thi ...


Kris Sharma
19 January 2021

What is PostgreSQL and why do banking software developers love it?

Financial Services Article

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that is known for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. PostgreSQL is becoming the preferred database for more and more enterprises. It is currently ranked #4 in popularity amongst hundreds of databases worldwide according to the DB-Engines Ranking. The ba ...


Igor Ljubuncic
14 January 2021

Productivity corner: editors, editors, editors

Apps Article

Text editors are a curious product. On one hand, they are simple, no-nonsense digital pads for taking notes, without any embellishments or visual styling. On the other, they are powerful code and data toolboxes, allowing for a great deal of flexibility and innovation. Indeed, software developers, Web developers and entrepreneuring nerds w ...


Canonical
13 January 2021

Telefonica Brazil selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack for industry-leading cloud-based online charging system

Canonical announcements Article

13th January 2021 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack has been selected by Telefonica Brazil to – in a first for the region – migrate its online charging system (OCS) to its private cloud, Unica Next. The transformation project will see eight private clouds built on Charmed OpenStack, geographi ...


Kris Sharma
12 January 2021

PostgreSQL: The PgMiner botnet attacks & Postgres database security

Ubuntu Article

Assuring the security of PostgreSQL and all open source database systems is critical as many learned with the PgMiner botnet attacks in December 2020. Having an understanding of, and visibility into, how these attacks happen and following standard best practices is the best way to make sure that your data is not at risk. This ...


Alan Pope
7 January 2021

Time to Branch Out

Ubuntu Article

Branches are an under-used but important feature of the Snap Store publishing capabilities. Indeed as I’m writing this post, I’ve never had a need to use the feature, and I’ve been publishing snaps for four and a half years. Let’s fix that! Start with acorns The rationale for branches is simple. Each snap in the ...