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28 posts from August 2021
Cloud PaaS through the lens of open source – opinion
By Rob Gibbon, 30 August 2021
Opinion piece by Rob Gibbon – Product Manager at Canonical. All views expressed are the author’s own. The open source perspective viz. PaaS Open source...
Model-driven observability: Taming alert storms
By Michele Mancioppi, 30 August 2021
Model-driven observability and its strong notion of topology provide easy-to-apply alert management capabilities to avoid alert storms and help find root...
Winners of the 21.10 Wallpaper competition
By Rhys Davies, 27 August 2021
Congratulations to our winners! With over 200 submissions and several hundred voters, the competition was tough. But, the votes are in, and here are the...
DataOps: keeping the data flowing with Model-driven Operations
By Rob Gibbon, 27 August 2021
DataOps: Prologue – why is it so hard? If you’ve ever lived DataOps, you’ll know that it’s a challenge at the best of times. A day in the life of a typical...
Happy birthday – 30 Years of Linux
By Rob Gibbon, 25 August 2021
Won’t be big Thirty years ago today, Linus Torvalds announced his free operating system to the world. As with many of the world’s greatest, Linux had humble...
Atresmedia modernises Spain’s most popular streaming platform with Canonical Charmed Kubernetes
By Canonical, 24 August 2021
The streaming service for the leading communication group in Spain leaves behind outdated applications and adopts a microservices architecture enabled by...
Kubernetes Fully Managed – half the cost of AWS
By Omar Ali Amin, 23 August 2021
Simplifiying Kubernetes adoption – How can you run a fully managed Kubernetes in a private cloud at half the cost of Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
The State of Robotics – July 2021
By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 22 August 2021
From autonomous mobile robots to robot butlers. It is impressive to see how much progress has been made in the last decade. Thanks to our open source...
Model-driven observability: the magic of Juju topology for metrics
By Michele Mancioppi, 22 August 2021
Learn how model-driven observability with Juju can drastically improve the quality of the insights you get from your monitoring telemetry.
Vote in the Ubuntu 21.10 wallpaper competition
By Rhys Davies, 20 August 2021
The time has come. It’s time to vote for the 10 images you would like included in the official Ubuntu 21.10 release as optional wallpapers. Submissions have...
Snap usage metrics now available on the command line
By Igor Ljubuncic, 20 August 2021
For years now, developers and publishers could view how well their snaps are performing in terms of usage and popularity through the Snap Store Web interface,...
About MAAS 3.0 and LXD
By Bill Wear, 19 August 2021
With the release of MAAS 3.0, we moved LXD virtual machines out of Beta. Several articles in the MAAS documentation address LXD. Since no document ties all...
Canonical and DFI launch the first Ubuntu certified AMD-based Industrial specialised Pi
By Canonical, 19 August 2021
Canonical and DFI announce that the GHF51 and EC90A-GH, have been certified, based on the latest AMD-based platform. Both offer improved performance, a...
How to run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the cloud: Part 4
By Rob Gibbon, 18 August 2021
In this series, we’ve been building up an Apache Spark cluster on Kubernetes using MicroK8s, Ubuntu Core OS, LXD and GCP. We’ve learned about and set up...
How to run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the cloud: Part 3
By Rob Gibbon, 18 August 2021
If you’ve followed the steps in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, you’ll have a working MicroK8s on the next-gen Ubuntu Core OS deployed, up, and running on...
How to run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the cloud: Part 2
By Rob Gibbon, 18 August 2021
If you have followed Part 1 of this blog post, you’ll have a working setup that allows you to run MicroK8s on Ubuntu Core in a VM on your local workstation...