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MAAS 2.9 is now available
By Bill Wear, 10 December 2020
Canonical is happy to announce that MAAS 2.9 is now available. We’ll get to the details of installing it in just a moment, but first, let’s walk through a...
Snaps: How we got here
By Alan Pope, 10 December 2020
I’m celebrating nine years at Canonical, and coming up on 15 years since I started contributing to Ubuntu in the community. It’s been quite the ride, helping...
The State of Robotics – November 2020
By Kyle Fazzari, 9 December 2020
Goodbye Thanksgiving (well, for some of us), hello Christmas! The holiday season really is the best, and it always brings interesting robotics news, which we...
MAAS CLI-only machine deployment
By Bill Wear, 8 December 2020
Continuing in our series on CLI-only MAAS operation, it’s time to deploy machines. In the previous post, we reached the point of creating and commissioning...
Design and Web team summary – 08 December 2020
By Anthony Dillon, 8 December 2020
The web team here at Canonical run two week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad Our Web Squad...
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade vs extended security maintenance
By Lech Sandecki, 8 December 2020
Weighing the options with an Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus is transitioning from its five-year standard security maintenance window in...
How to switch the Docker container runtime to containerd with Charmed Kubernetes
By Canonical, 7 December 2020
This article describes how easy it is for users of Charmed Kubernetes to switch from the Docker container runtime to containerd. You may have heard that...
SUSE OpenStack Cloud reaches the end of life
By Tytus Kurek, 7 December 2020
Time passes by! A year has passed since SUSE announced its decision to discontinue SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and many enterprises are already affected. This is...
When you need the numbers just right – benchmark and profiling applications in the Snap Store
By Igor Ljubuncic, 4 December 2020
The world of software is a vast and complex one, often too difficult to easily assess by human intuition alone. Which is why detailed and accurate...
Migrating the Launchpad Keyservers from SKS to Hockeypuck
By Paul Collins, 3 December 2020
Ubuntu and Launchpad use OpenPGP keys heavily. Each source package is signed with the uploader’s key, and binary and source package downloads from Ubuntu’s...
MAAS CLI-only machine creation
By Bill Wear, 2 December 2020
The whole point of MAAS configuration is to get machines deployed. If you read the previous post in this series, you know how to install MAAS and do basic...