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Best practices to publish open-source software operators

Running or operating applications requires several tasks throughout their lifecycle: scaling instances, checking the health, integrating with other applications, running backups, and applying updates – to name a few examples. It’s a time and labour-intensive process. To automate these tasks, developers can implement scripts for repeated e

The State of IoT – August 2022

Welcome to the August edition of the monthly State of IoT series. Let’s dive straight into the most prominent news across the IoT landscape from the last month. Google kills Cloud IoT Core  Google introduced Cloud IoT Core, a fully managed service for securely connecting and managing devices, at the Google I/O conference in May

Join our upcoming IoT developer workshop in Madrid

The workshop The Intel and Canonical Developer workshop is coming up soon in Madrid, on September 22, and we are looking for IoT enthusiasts to join us! Don’t miss the chance to learn about EdgeX and Ubuntu Core using real business cases. This will be a live event where IoT developers of all industries have

Canonical Kubernetes 1.25 is now generally available

The Canonical Kubernetes team is delighted to announce that Canonical Kubernetes 1.25 is now generally available!

Kubernetes operators – the top 5 things to watch for

Software operators are steadily revolutionising how we deploy and run complex distributed systems. They offer the promise of low-intervention, self-driving software – ideally leading to service reliability gains and better uptime. For an introduction to Kubernetes operators, check out our introductory webinar or download our guide to Kube

Join Canonical at NVIDIA GTC 2022

As a strategic partner of NVIDIA, Canonical is proud to be one of the leading sponsors of the NVIDIA GTC again! Join us virtually at NVIDIA GTC on September 19-22 to explore the latest technology and business trends and learn from experts on how AI and the evolution of the 3D Internet are profoundly impacting

Design and Web team summary – 26 August 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Sites The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Applica

Design and Web team summary – 29 July 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical runs in two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Sites The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  We move


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FIPS certified vs compliant: what’s safer?

Minimise risk by treating the FIPS standard as a baseline, and going above and beyond the baseline to mitigate risk by applying security patches.

Canonical Ubuntu now available on Ampere® Altra® Arm-based Azure virtual machines

Azure-optimised images of the developer-favourite operating system to enter general availability 1 September, with a fully functional preview already live Canonical today announces the general availability of optimised Ubuntu images on Ampere® Altra® Arm-based Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. General availability begins 1 September, with

Meet Canonical at Hannover Messe USA 2022

Hannover Messe USA is almost here! With a 114,000+ net sq. ft exhibition area, 500+ companies, 129400+ registrants and 100+ countries represented, Hannover Messe USA is the largest gathering of industrial manufacturing in North America. Join Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, at Hannover Messe USA to discuss open source innovation in i

Meet Canonical at OpenSearchCon 2022 and hear about our new community collaboration

OpenSearch makes it easy to ingest, search, visualise, and analyse data. Developers build with OpenSearch for use cases such as application search, log analytics, data observability, data ingestion, and more. OpenSearch is Apache 2.0 licensed software, which means that it is open source and run, maintained and advanced by the community. O

Strictly Confined MicroK8s

MicroK8s is now available as a strictly confined snap on 1.25! What is strict confinement? In summary, it is a snap confinement level that provides complete isolation, up to a minimal access level that’s always deemed safe. Strictly confined snaps can not access files, networks, processes, or any other system resource without requesting s

Charmed Kubernetes and Huawei Oceanstor Pacific storage integration verification report

The verification report is built with Charmed Kubernetes v1.21-v1.23 and eSDK(huawei-csi) v2.2.16. Project Overview Background Huawei OceanStor Pacific is an intelligent distributed storage series with scale-out capability designed to support the business needs of today and tomorrow. Its diverse and adaptable range of features provides eff

Open-source storage for beginners with Ceph

Modern organisations have become reliant on their IT capabilities, and at the heart of that infrastructure is a growing need to store data. Be it transactional databases, file shares, or burgeoning data lakes for business analytics. Traditionally, storage needs have been catered to by big iron hardware vendors, but over the last decade, m

Open source for beginners: setting up your dev environment with LXD

Are you looking for a way to practice your Linux commands without jeopardizing your underlying system? Want to practice running complex infrastructure use cases? Want to understand how the application you develop on your laptop would behave on a cloud instance? Try LXD.


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