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Thibaut Rouffineau
9 June 2020

Ubuntu at the Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit

Cloud and server Article

Event overview and main themes On June 16th 2020, the Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit will be the occasion to meet and hear from all the communities, entrepreneurs and developers involved in building the future of open source technologies in the cloud. This is an opportunity to explore all the areas where Microsoft and ...


Anthony Dillon
9 June 2020

Design and Web team summary – 9th June 2020

Design Article

The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team 👋 My name is Sam, and I am a project manager on the web team. I help run a few of our squads in the web team. The web squad, ...


Igor Ljubuncic
5 June 2020

Fabrica – Your self-hosted snap factory

Cloud and server Article

There are many ways one can go about building snaps. You can do it on your local system, by manually running commands in a terminal window. If you have a developer account in the Snap Store, you can use the integrated build functionality to create snaps. You can also use Launchpad, Electron Builder or a ...


Alex Chalkias
5 June 2020

OSM#9 Hackfest: the highlights

Cloud and server Article

Canonical concluded its participation in the 9th OSM Hackfest with a renewed sense of fellowship with the Open Source MANO (OSM) community and great pride in the collaborative work that enabled an end-to-end mobile network orchestration demo using OSM’s model-driven capabilities to onboard network services. Following the successful organi ...


Adi Singh
5 June 2020

The State of Robotics – May 2020

Robotics Article

With several countries finally emerging from lockdowns and markets showing signs of economic recovery, we’ve seen the newscycle steadily shift its focus away from Covid-19. And that will be reflected in our robotics recap as well. Let’s get right to it. Final ROS 1 version release ROS Noetic Ninjemys was released this month on World ...


Rui Vasconcelos
4 June 2020

Amazon + Kubeflow

Ubuntu Article

SageMaker Embraces Kubeflow Pipelines Amazon announced this week the possibility to configure Kubeflow Pipelines to run ML jobs with Amazon SageMaker. This is yet another validation of Kubeflow as a widespread solution and reinforces the idea of ML workflows on Kubernetes. Read the post here. ...


Kit Randel
4 June 2020

Building a cross-framework UI with single-spa in MAAS 2.8

Design Article

A new machine list, and a new framework In MAAS 2.8, we’re shipping a new machine list, built from the ground up in React and Redux. We’ve also implemented a few new features: persisting UI state for grouping, new grouping options, bookmarkable urls with filter and search parameters, and many performance improvements.  In my last ...


haydenb
3 June 2020

Getting started with cross-platform development using .NET on Ubuntu on WSL

Desktop Article

.NET is an open source software framework for building cross-platform applications on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Ubuntu on WSL allows you to build and test applications for Ubuntu and Windows simultaneously. What happens when we mix these together? This blog will demonstrate how to install a .NET development stack on WSL, build a simple O ...


Canonical
2 June 2020

MicroK8s now native on Windows and macOS

Cloud and server Article

Windows and macOS developers can now use MicroK8s natively! Use kubectl at the Windows or Mac command line to interact with MicroK8s locally just as you would on Linux. Clean integration into the desktop means better workflows to dev, build and test your containerised apps. MicroK8s is a conformant upstream Kubernetes, packaged for simpli ...


Adi Singh
1 June 2020

What’s the deal with edge computing?

Edgex Article

With over 41 billion IoT devices expected to be active by 2027 — that’s at least 5 devices for every person on the planet — edge computing has emerged as a tenable solution to prevent the impending snowballing of network traffic. Allow me to lift the veil on this buzzword and explain why it’s been ...


Tytus Kurek
1 June 2020

Open source software for open infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

Implementing infrastructure using open-source software significantly reduces the total cost of ownership (TOC) of your infrastructure. Over the last few years, we’ve seen more and more companies moving to open source. These include Netflix, Uber, Visa, eBay, Wikipedia and AT&T. And this trend will only continue to grow. The migration is d ...