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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...

How to run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the cloud: Part 1

By Rob Gibbon, 18 August 2021

There are some great reasons to use nested virtualisation on compute clouds. Nested virtualisation is when you have Virtual Machines running within Virtual...