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  Turning your Raspberry Pi 4 into an Edge Gateway (Part I)
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  Developers get new opportunities to innovate with the emergence of edge computing. However, to unleash this innovation, form factors and software stacks suitable for hacking edge applications need to be made accessible. Canonical has enabled Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi 4 for this purpose. Furthermore,  popular edge and IoT platforms are available and easily deployable […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/turning-your-raspberry-pi-4-into-an-edge-gateway-part-i
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  KubeCon San Diego 2019 Flashback
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  KubeCon San Diego 2019 was a blast; lot’s of sun, beer, food, amazing projects and learning opportunities! It was great to see the community come together for the love of all things Kubernetes. The Canonical booth was buzzing with excitement around MicroK8s, Multipass and Kubernetes clustering on that DIY Raspberry Pi clusters running Ubuntu and […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/kubecon-san-diego-2019
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  8th OSM Hackfest: the highlights
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  The 8th OSM Hackfest is over, but the OSM (Open Source MANO) project continues to evolve and is now looking forward to landing release SEVEN. It was an exciting week in Lucca, Italy. We’ve seen a lot of interest from those who attended the event for the first time and a strong commitment from the […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/8th-osm-hackfest-the-highlights
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  Snapcraft secret sauce: KDE neon extension
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  Simplicity is the magic ingredient in any product design. For members of the KDE community, snap development has become that much simpler, thanks to the recent introduction of the KDE neon extension. Last year, we talked about the KDE build and content snaps, which can greatly speed the build of KDE application snaps and save […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/snapcraft-secret-sauce-kde-neon-extension
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  The lifecycle of a component
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  Vanilla Framework is a living design system for our products that will grow along with our organisation. Vanilla’s component library is used by many internal and external websites along with the cloud applications JAAS dashboard and MAAS UI. We release updates approximately every 2 weeks, either for bug fixes, improvements or new components. All members […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/the-lifecycle-of-components-in-your-design-system
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  Canonical introduces Ubuntu to the industrial Mittelstand at SPS 2019
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  Canonical is attending the Smart Product Solutions (SPS) trade fair in Nuremberg from November 26th to 28th. We are convening to the 30th edition of the trade fair for smart automation solutions alongside 1650 other exhibitors. Digital transformation in automation will be the main theme of  SPS 2019, under the official motto “automation meets IT”. […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-introduces-ubuntu-to-the-industrial-mittelstand-at-sps-2019
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  Canonical introduces Charmed OSM to enable telcos with network functions management and orchestration
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  November 20, 2019: Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, today announced Charmed OSM – a pure upstream Open Source MANO (OSM) distribution designed for production-grade, highly available and scalable deployments. Charmed OSM provides telecommunications service providers (TSPs) with a generic approach to network functions management and orchestration, allowing them to benefit from cost reduction resulting from […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-introduces-charmed-osm-to-enable-telcos-with-network-functions-management-and-orchestration
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  Avoiding dropped connections in nginx containers with “STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT”
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  nginx is a very popular web server. It may have just become the most popular web server – Netcraft’s October survey found nginx had 33% market share. This may be thanks to growth in Kubernetes adoption (most Kubernetes installations use nginx as the default ingress controller). Unsurprisingly, its use within Kubernetes configurations is just as […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/avoiding-dropped-connections-in-nginx-containers-with-stopsignal-sigquit
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  We reduced our Docker images by 60% with –no-install-recommends
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  Here at Canonical, we use Dockerfiles on a daily basis for all our web projects. Something that caught our attention recently was the amount of space that we were using for each Docker image, and we realized that we were installing more dependencies than we needed. In this article, I’ll explain how we improved our […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/we-reduced-our-docker-images-by-60-with-no-install-recommends
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  Lessons learned from 100+ private cloud builds
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  Building a private cloud based on OpenStack has typically been a complex process with uncertain build costs based on time and materials requiring specialised expertise and low-level Linux OS knowledge. To help enterprises overcome these challenges,Canonical offers Private Cloud Build to provide businesses with a fully deployed OpenStack delivered in as little as two weeks […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-100-private-cloud-builds
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  A technical comparison between the snap and the Flatpak formats
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  The adoption of new technology is almost never without hurdles. Usually, it takes a while before users become familiar and comfortable with the new concepts and usage models. Often, having a good understanding of the underlying architecture can help bridge the gap. In this article, continuing with what we’ve done with Debian and snap file […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/a-technical-comparison-between-the-snap-and-the-flatpak-formats
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  Canonical enhances Kubernetes reliability for edge, IoT and multi-cloud
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  14 November 2019: Canonical today announced high-availability clustering in MicroK8s, the workstation and appliance Kubernetes, and enterprise SQL database integration for its multi-cloud Charmed Kubernetes. “The rapid rise of enterprise and edge Kubernetes creates a challenge for corporate IT, with thousands of edge nodes running Kubernetes, and hundreds of cloud Kubernetes clusters,” said Stephan Fabel, […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-enhances-kubernetes-reliability-for-edge-iot-and-multi-cloud
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  foo.c
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  I remember my first foo. It was September, 1974, on a PDP-11/40, in the second-floor lab at the local community college. It was an amazing experience for a fourteen-year-old, admitted at 12 to audit night classes because his dad was a part-time instructor and full-time polymath. I should warn you, I’m not the genius in […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/foo-c
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  Design and Web team summary – 8 November 2019
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  This was the final iteration before our roadmap sprint where we plan our 20.04 work.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the Canonical. New content We created a takeover and landing page a Kata Containers […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/design-and-web-team-summary-8-november-2019
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  Ubuntu updates to mitigate latest Intel hardware vulnerabilities
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  Today, Intel announced a group of new vulnerabilities affecting various Intel CPUs and associated GPUs, known as TSX Asynchronous Abort (CVE-2019-11135), Intel® Processor Machine Check Error (CVE-2018-12207), and two Intel i915 graphics hardware  vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-0155, CVE-2019-0154). TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA) is related to the previously announced MDS vulnerabilities but only affects Intel processors that support […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-updates-to-mitigate-latest-intel-hardware-vulnerabilities
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  Growing the Linux app Ecosystem at LAS 2019
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  The third Linux Application Summit (LAS) kicks off this week in Barcelona, Spain. Formerly organised under the GNOME project, known as Libre Application Summit, the new LAS is a joint effort between the KDE and GNOME projects. The aim of the conference is to encourage the growth of a vibrant Linux application ecosystem. Canonical are […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/growing-the-linux-app-ecosystem-at-las-2019
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  Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai 2019: the highlights
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  The Canonical team is getting back from the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai 2019 with a lot of excitement and a fresh view on the key projects from the OpenStack Foundation including OpenStack and Kata containers. Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai: Keynotes OpenStack remains a big thing and its adoption is constantly growing. According to the 451 […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/open-infrastructure-summit-shanghai
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  Canonical at TechWeek Frankfurt
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  Date: Nov 13-14Location: Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GermanyBooth: 957 The TechWeek Frankfurt trade show will explore solutions to technology challenges organisations face across cloud computing and security, DevOps practices, Big Data management and more. With these major infrastructure themes in mind, the Ubuntu and Canonical team is hosting a session on The 10 new rules of […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-at-techweek-frankfurt
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  Ubuntu at Kubecon Americas 2019, San Diego
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  The Kubecon world tour is coming to its last stop of the year for Kubecon Americas 2019 in San Diego… and the Canonical / Ubuntu team will be present with Kubernetes in all its flavours from public cloud to private cloud, from powerful Intel Cores to ARM chipset, from single-node development machines to large clusters. […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-kubecon-americas-2019
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  Canonical collaborates with NVIDIA to accelerate enterprise AI adoption in multi-cloud environments and at the edge
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  Enterprises currently face the challenge of how to adopt and integrate AI and ML into their operations effectively, at scale and with minimum complexity. In tandem, today’s AI workloads have become increasingly advanced and the compute power required to support them has exponentially increased.  Canonical and NVIDIA have collaborated to help enterprises accelerate their adoption […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-collaborates-with-nvidia-to-accelerate-enterprise-ai-adoption-in-multi-cloud-environments-and-at-the-edge