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OSM-MR#8 Hackfest: the highlights
By Tytus Kurek, 13 March 2020
The Canonical team is getting back from the OSM-MR#8 Hackfest with a lot of excitement and a fresh view on the OSM (Open Source MANO) project. Although due to...
MAAS controller communication
By Bill Wear, 11 March 2020
Much of the functionality of MAAS is contained in controllers. There are two basic types: a region controller and a rack controller. It’s useful to pull back...
Tutorials for everyone from everyone
By toto, 11 March 2020
TL:DR The tutorials site was refreshed. Tutorials are written in Discourse. They are then pulled and displayed on different sites: ubuntu.com, snapcraft.io,...
On boxing, tabletop exercises and threat models
By joemcmanus, 10 March 2020
‘Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.’ Mike Tyson At Canonical we have recently performed a series of...
Interana uses ESM to maintain system security while upgrading its customers to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS across public clouds
By Alex Cattle, 10 March 2020
Interana, an analytics software provider, enables users to run advanced big data queries on raw customer data and delivers answers in seconds. Their customers...
Safely Backup Google Photos
By Alan Pope, 8 March 2020
With a smart phones in their pocket, most people don’t bother carrying a traditional camera anymore. For most, the single, double or even triple cameras on...
ROS Development with LXD
By Ted Kern, 6 March 2020
Linux containers allow for easy isolation of developer environments. If you’re often working with a bunch of different ROS versions, it’s a lot easier to do...
ROS 2 CI with GitHub Actions
By Ted Kern, 6 March 2020
The ROS 2 Tooling Working Group (chaired by AWS RoboMaker) has been hard at work producing a neat set of GitHub Actions for building and testing ROS packages...
Hosted private cloud infrastructure: a cost analysis
By Alex Cattle, 6 March 2020
Private cloud infrastructure remains an essential part of every enterprise nowadays. However, due to the increasing number of workloads and data, the overhead...
The State of Robotics – February 2020
By Rhys Davies, 6 March 2020
In 2020 we are already seeing the world of robotics hit the ground running. So far this year new and exciting things have been cropping up in every industry....
Design and Web team summary – 5 March 2020
By Anthony Dillon, 5 March 2020
This is the final week before the team is all off the Frankfurt for co-located sprinting on some features and products. So, watch this space. This was a...