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  Design and Web team summary – 20th July 2020
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  The web team here at Canonical run two week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team I am from a small island of Colombia in the Caribbean although I grew up in Barcelona, where I went to University to study Industrial Design Engineering. After my […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/design-and-web-team-summary-20th-july-2020
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  What can you do with MicroK8s?
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  MicroK8s was first released in late 2018 and has seen significant adoption rates from developers and enterprises alike ever since. Taking increasing demand and curiosity around the topic, we have already given an introduction to MicroK8s as well as covered how to deploy MicroK8s locally in previous blog posts. This time, we’ll take a look […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-can-you-do-with-microk8s
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  Employee spotlight: Alice Cambridge, Inside Sales Representative
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  Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? This blog will be the first in a series getting to know some of the different employees that make up our company. We will be talking to people across roles and departments, starting with Alice Cambridge. Alice joined Canonical as a new […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/employee-spotlight-alice-cambridge-inside-sales-representative
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  Best practices for an effective remote team in the world of cloud delivery
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  Just like countless other business functions, cloud delivery has now shifted entirely to remote working for now and perhaps longer term. Canonical has been a remote-first company for some time, so we thought we’d take this opportunity to share some of the best practices we’ve learned along the way. Communication Effective communication between customers, engineers, […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/best-practices-for-an-effective-remote-team-in-the-world-of-cloud-delivery
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  ROS Security Benchmark open for public comment
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  We’re pleased to announce that the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has publicly released the ROS Security Benchmark for community discussion. When published, this benchmark will document community best-practice configuration settings to properly secure ROS Melodic running on Ubuntu Bionic. Hopefully this is just the beginning of an ongoing effort to define different security profiles […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ros-security-benchmark-open-for-public-comment
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  Canonical launches enhanced GSI partner programme, bringing scalability and automation to modernise enterprise IT deployments
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  15 July 2020: Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announces the launch of its enhanced Global System Integrator (GSI) Programme. Alongside new partnership benefits, it includes resell and integration opportunities for the entirety of Canonical’s secure, open source portfolio for the data centre, multi-cloud, edge and IoT. GSIs can now drive increased revenue by building […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/%ef%bb%bfcanonical-launches-enhanced-gsi-partner-programme-bringing-scalability-and-automation-to-modernise-enterprise-it-deployments
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  Kubernetes from cloud to edge: A US virtual event
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  Register for the event Who is this event for? After the huge success of its latest virtual event on Kubernetes for the EMEA region, Canonical brings its expertise to the US with another educational discussion. On July 31st, Canonical’s panel of experts come together to share their insights from years of working with developers and […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/kubernetes-from-cloud-to-edge-a-us-virtual-event
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  Robotics Recap: Learning, Programming & Snapping ROS 2
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  Robotics@Canonical puts a strong focus on the migration from ROS to ROS 2. ROS 2 benefits from many improvements, especially robot security. Our goal is to make it easy for you to transition to ROS 2, whether you’re completely new to ROS or a seasoned engineer retooling for a new environment. Your new platform should […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/robotics-recap-learning-programming-and-snapping-ros-2
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  Ubuntu Support of AWS Graviton2 Instances
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  This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog Ubuntu is the industry-leading operating system for use in the cloud. Every day millions of Ubuntu instances are launched in private and public clouds around the world. Canonical takes pride in offering support for the latest cloud features and functionality. As of today, all Ubuntu Amazon Web […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-aws-graviton2
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  How to manage snap updates
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  Updates are an integral part of the software lifecycle. Quite often, they bring improvements, vital security patches – and sometimes, unfortunately, bugs, too. In mission-critical environments, it is important to assert a high degree of oversight and precision over updates. Snaps come with a built-in automatic update mechanism, whereby snaps are refreshed to a new […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-to-manage-snap-updates
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  MicroK8s HA tech preview is now available
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  High availability (HA) for MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes, is now available as a tech preview for Linux, Windows and macOS. The Kubernetes control plane can now be distributed across multiple nodes, bringing resiliency to the cluster while maintaining a low footprint using Dqlite, the distributed SQL engine as the Kubernetes datastore. On Linux, you can […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/microk8s-ha-tech-preview-is-now-available
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  Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter
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  By Chris Sells (Google) & Ken VanDine (Canonical) Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that run at native speeds no matter what platform you target. To validate this capability, we started by focusing on the mobile platforms, Android and iOS, where we’ve seen more than […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-enables-linux-desktop-app-support-with-flutter
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  Design and Web team summary – 8th July 2020
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  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. USNs on ubuntu.com Ubuntu security notices can now be found under https://ubuntu.com/security/notices, bringing a much […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/design-and-web-team-summary-8th-july-2020
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  The State of Robotics – June 2020
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  ROS, Ripple and reflections – In this month’s edition of The State of Robotics, we’ll tell you about the recently discovered Ripple vulnerability, the latest and greatest in robots reflecting nature, and a dash of news from the ROS universe. Foxy Fitzroy released ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy was released on June 5 for Ubuntu 20.04. […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-state-of-robotics-june-2020
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  Canonical Developer Advocate Named Microsoft MVP
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  We would like to congratulate Hayden Barnes, a Developer Advocate at Canonical for Ubuntu on WSL, who was awarded MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft for 2020-2021 for his contributions to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) community. The Microsoft MVP Award is awarded annually by Microsoft to technology experts who passionately share their knowledge […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-developer-advocate-named-microsoft-mvp
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  Feeling at home in a LXD container
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  In this post, we will see how we can containerize our home in LXD simply managing our personal configuration files – a.k.a. dotfiles. Yeah dotfiles, named after their common ~/.my_config form, you know, all of those small configuration files lying across our $HOME. In other words, how one can change the house while keeping the […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/feeling-at-home-in-a-lxd-container
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  A snap confined shell based on Mir: Mircade
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  Mircade: An example snap confined user shell There are various scenarios and reasons for packaging a Snap confined shell and a selection of applications together in a confined environment. You might have applications that work well together for a particular task; or, you may want to offer a number of alternative applications and have them […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/a-snap-confined-shell-based-on-mir-mircade
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  A blast from the past – Shutter
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  The wheel of software turns, and apps come and go. But the end of development does not always mean the end of usefulness. Sometimes, programs stubbornly remain around, offering a complete experience that can withstand the test of time. Several weeks ago, we talked about how you can preserve old applications with snaps. Today, we […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/a-blast-from-the-past-shutter
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  Data science workflows on Kubernetes with Kubeflow pipelines: Part 2
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  This blog series is part of the joint collaboration between Canonical and Manceps. Visit our AI consulting and delivery services page to know more. Introduction Kubeflow Pipelines are a great way to build portable, scalable machine learning workflows. It is a part of the Kubeflow project that aims to reduce the complexity and time involved […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/data-science-workflows-on-kubernetes-with-kubeflow-pipelines-part-2
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  Encryption at rest with Ceph
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  Do you have a big data center? Do you have terabytes of confidential data stored in that data center? Are you worried that your data might be exposed to malicious attacks? One of the most prominent security features of storage solutions is encryption at rest. This blog will explain this in more detail and how […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ceph-encryption-at-rest