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Canonical
17 October 2019

Ubuntu 19.10 delivers Kubernetes at the edge, multi-cloud infrastructure economics and an integrated AI/ML developer experience

AI Article

17th October 2019: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 19.10 with a focus on accelerating developer productivity in AI/ML, new edge capabilities for MicroK8s and delivering the fastest GNOME desktop performance.  “In the fifteen years since the first Ubuntu release, we have seen Ubuntu evolve from the desktop to become the pla ...


Igor Ljubuncic
17 October 2019

Snaptastic – elementary OS snap manager

Desktop Article

An interesting aspect in the life of any technology is how it propagates. Like organisms in nature, technology follows evolutionary patterns, and sometimes, it can be difficult predicting them. But their observation can be quite telling. Case in point, Snaptastic on elementary OS. Snaptastic is a graphical snap manager utility, available ...


Galem KAYO
17 October 2019

Embedded system cross-development with Ubuntu Core

DevOps Article

There are fundamental differences between developing general-purpose software applications and making software for embedded systems. Embedded systems software runs on resource-constrained hardware, in contrast to general-purpose server or client applications that run on more capable hardware. For this reason, embedded system software is n ...


Chad Smith
16 October 2019

Ubuntu Server development summary – 16 October 2019

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 ...


Tytus Kurek
16 October 2019

Ansible vs Terraform vs Juju: Competition or cooperation?

DevOps Article

Ansible vs Terraform vs Juju vs Chef vs SaltStack vs Puppet vs CloudFormation – there are so many tools available out there. What are these tools? Do I need all of them? Are they competing with each other or cooperating? The answer is not really straightforward. It usually depends on your needs and the particular ...


Canonical
15 October 2019

Grace Hopper Conference 2019

People and culture Article

We are so excited about what just happened that we felt we should tell everyone about it! A group of 24 of us at Canonical from various teams including Sales, HR and Engineering, attended the Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando, Florida. This year, it was an epic gathering of more than 26,000 people from all ...


Peter Mahnke
15 October 2019

Design and Web team summary – 11 October 2019

Design Article

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. This cycle we had two sprints. The first was a web performance workshop run by the amazing Harry Roberts. It was a whirlwind two days where we learned a lot about networking, browsers, font loading and more. We also spent ...


anaqvi
14 October 2019

Digest #2019.10.14 – The Ultimate Learning Machine

Ubuntu Kubeflow

The Ultimate Learning Machine – Babies… This article dives into how machines are trained and their motivation for learning compared to a human baby. Guess what… babies learn faster, require less data and have a power that machines don’t – curiosity! The AI lab at UC Berkeley is trying to innovate with AI to mimic ...


anaqvi
11 October 2019

Onboarding edge applications on the dev environment

Internet of Things Edge Cloud

Adoption of edge computing is taking hold as organisations realise the need for highly distributed applications, services and data at the extremes of a network. Whereas data historically travelled back to a centralised location, data processing can now occur locally allowing for real-time analytics, improved connectivity, reduced latency ...


Alan Pope
10 October 2019

Chromium in Ubuntu – deb to snap transition

Ubuntu Article

We have recently announced that we are transitioning the Chromium deb package to the snap in Ubuntu 19.10. Such a transition is not trivial, and there have been many constructive discussions around it, so here we are summarising why we are doing this, how, and the timeline. Why Chromium is a very popular web browser, ...


anaqvi
9 October 2019

Kubectl and friends as a snap

Kubernetes Kubernetes

At Canonical, we build solutions to simplify the lives of our users. We want to reduce complexity, costs, and barriers to entry. When we built the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) and MicroK8s, we made sure it aligned with our mission. We built snaps like kubectl for various Kubernetes clients and services to ensure a ...