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34 posts from March 2020
Edge AI in a 5G world – part 1: How ‘smart cell towers’ will change our lives
By Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez, 31 March 2020
This is part of a blog series on the impact that 5G and GPUs at the edge will have on the roll out of new AI solutions. You can read the other posts here....
Rigado cuts customers’ time-to-market with Ubuntu Core and AWS
By Alex Cattle, 31 March 2020
In the fast-paced world of IoT, being able to reduce time-to-market is a priority. Rigado’s core mission is to provide scalable and secure infrastructure for...
Automating our Vanilla releases with GitHub actions
By Bartek Szopka, 31 March 2020
The Vanilla framework has a history of being released very infrequently. Sometimes it has been months between releases, which made the upgrade process often...
Design and Web team summary – 30th March 2020
By Anthony Dillon, 30 March 2020
Due to the rapidly developing Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, the entire web team has transitioned to 100% remote for the foreseeable future. Canonical is...
Smart cards login on Ubuntu
By Alex Cattle, 29 March 2020
Smart cards have proliferated and are now everywhere, from work ID badges to credit cards and passports. For example, the United States Federal Government...
Learn snapcraft by example – multi-app client-server snap
By Igor Ljubuncic, 27 March 2020
Over the past few months, we published a number of articles showing how to snap desktop applications written in different languages – Rust, Java, C/C++, and...
How Domotz streamlined provisioning of IoT devices
By Alex Cattle, 26 March 2020
As the number of IoT devices scale, the challenges of provisioning and keeping them up to date in the field increases. Domotz, who manufacture an all-in-one,...
Kubernetes 1.18 available from Canonical
By Canonical, 24 March 2020
Canonical today announced full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.18, with support covering Charmed Kubernetes, MicroK8s and kubeadm. Committed to releasing...
Building a Raspberry Pi cluster with MicroK8s
By Rhys Davies, 24 March 2020
The tutorial for building a Raspberry Pi cluster with MicroK8s is here. This blog is not a tutorial. This blog aims to answer; why? Why would you build a...
How to launch IoT devices – Part 4: When to ask for help
By nilayshrugged, 24 March 2020
(This blog post is part of a 5 part series, titled “How to launch IoT devices”. It will cover the key choices and concerns when turning bright IoT ideas into...
Ceph Octopus is now available
By Alex Chalkias, 24 March 2020
Ceph upstream released the first stable version of ‘Octopus’ today, and you can test it easily on Ubuntu with automatic upgrades to the final GA release. This...
Update: Canonical managed services and Ubuntu support during COVID-19 outbreak
By Mark Shuttleworth, 19 March 2020
SUMMARY Canonical’s fully managed OpenStack, Kubernetes, Kafka, Elastic, Postgres and other open source stacks, are operating at full SLA. Ubuntu and broader...
Snapcraft tricks: Improve release flexibility with pull and build overrides
By Igor Ljubuncic, 19 March 2020
Sometimes, software projects are simple – one architecture, one version, one release. But often, they can be complex, targeting multiple platforms, and with...
Kubernetes 1.18 release candidate available for testing
By Alex Chalkias, 18 March 2020
The latest release of Kubernetes is now available for download and experimentation, with the MicroK8s Kubernetes 1.18 release candidate. The easiest, fastest...
SBI Group unlocks infrastructure automation with secure, on-premises OpenStack cloud
By Alex Cattle, 17 March 2020
SBI BITS provides IT services and infrastructure to the SBI Group — Japan’s market leading financial services company group — which is made up of over 250...
Design and Web team summary – 16 March 2020
By Anthony Dillon, 16 March 2020
The Web and design team spent the last week in an in-person sprint in Frankfurt. We have a number of members of the team that are remote so it is always great...