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278 posts from 2019
The State of Robotics – November 2019
By Rhys Davies, 6 December 2019
November, for robotics, was a good month. We’re seeing new things develop, current projects finish and more cute animals in our future. So who can complain?...
Simplifying hardware management during Linux development
By nilayshrugged, 6 December 2019
Every few months we release a Snapcraft update, with improvements to both Linux development, and snap user experience. Last week, we released Snapcraft 3.9,...
Migrating the MAAS UI from AngularJS to React
By Kit Randel, 6 December 2019
MAAS (metal as a service), is a Canonical product which allows for very fast server provisioning and data centre management. Around 2014, work began to build...
Web application development with Juju charms: an interview with Marc André Audet from Absolunet
By Tim McNamara, 5 December 2019
“The best thing about Juju is that it is very flexible. It is easy to look for existing charms in the charm store and you adapt them to your needs.”
Snapcraft now auto-detects missing dependencies
By Igor Ljubuncic, 5 December 2019
When you build snaps, the process of composing a complete snapcraft.yaml file will usually revolve around three main activities: parts, build requirements and...
Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services
By Canonical, 4 December 2019
New premium Ubuntu images with extended security, kernel live patching and more 4th December 2019 – Canonical today announced the availability of Ubuntu Pro...
What is Kata Containers and why should I care?
By Tytus Kurek, 3 December 2019
Kata Containers can significantly improve the security and isolation of your container workloads. It combines the benefits of using a hypervisor, such as...
Productivity corner: free, versatile office suites in the Snap Store
By Igor Ljubuncic, 28 November 2019
For the past few decades, the digital office formula has not changed much. It still revolves around three main components – text documents, data spreadsheets...
Ubuntu Server development summary – 26 November 2019
By Chad Smith, 26 November 2019
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....
“Ubuntu at scale” roundtable at AWS re:Invent
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 26 November 2019
Let’s talk Ubuntu at AWS re:Invent! On Thursday 5th December AWS and Canonical are hosting an interactive roundtable from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at re-Invent,...
Design and Web team summary – 22 November 2019
By Robin Winslow, 26 November 2019
This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad...
Turning your Raspberry Pi 4 into an Edge Gateway (Part I)
By Galem KAYO, 26 November 2019
Developers get new opportunities to innovate with the emergence of edge computing. However, to unleash this innovation, form factors and software stacks...
KubeCon San Diego 2019 Flashback
By anaqvi, 23 November 2019
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...
8th OSM Hackfest: the highlights
By Tytus Kurek, 22 November 2019
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...
Snapcraft secret sauce: KDE neon extension
By Igor Ljubuncic, 21 November 2019
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...
The lifecycle of a component
By Karl Waghorn-Moyce, 21 November 2019
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...