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Kyle Fazzari
21 April 2017

ROS production: our prototype as a snap [3/5]

Internet of Things Article

This is the third blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we came up with a simple ROS prototype. In this post we’ll package that prototype as a snap. For justifications behind why we’re doing this, please see the first post in the series. We know from the previous post ...


Canonical
20 April 2017

Certified Ubuntu Images available on Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Service

Canonical announcements News

Developers offered options of where to run either demanding workloads or less compute-intensive applications, in a highly available cloud environment. Running development and production on Certified Ubuntu can simplify operations and reduce engineering costs Certified Ubuntu images are now available in the Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services ...


Samuel Cozannet
19 April 2017

How we commoditised GPUs for Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

[Edit 2017-04-20] A careful reader informed me (thanks for that HN user puzzle) that it is no longer required to run in privileged mode to access the GPUs in K8s. I therefore removed a note that previously stated this requirement, and am in the process of updating my Helm charts to remove it as well ...


Guest
19 April 2017

FTC and D-Link

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact [email protected] Anyone who doubts that governments are closing in on hardware vendors in a bid to shut down IoT security vulnerabilities needs to catch up with the Federal Trade Commission’s recent lawsuit again ...


Canonical
18 April 2017

Unitas Global and Canonical provide fully-managed enterprise OpenStack

Canonical announcements News

Unitas Global, the leading enterprise hybrid cloud solution provider, and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container, cloud, scale out, and hyperscale computing announced they will provide a new fully managed and hosted OpenStack private cloud to enterprise clients around the world. This partnership, ...


Guest
17 April 2017

Industrial IoT: manage and control remote assets

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Florian Hoenigschmid, Director of azeti. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] When you make a phone call, watch TV or wash your hands, you probably won’t associate this with terms like predictive maintenance, equipment damage, downtime or Service Level Agreements ...


Canonical
13 April 2017

Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities

Canonical announcements News

Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and the leading platform for cloud and IoT operations. “The breadth and pace of open source innovation has made it the center of gravity in technology today, and the Ubuntu community ...


Kyle Fazzari
13 April 2017

ROS production: our prototype [2/5]

Internet of Things Article

This is the second blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we discussed why Ubuntu Core was a good fit for production robotics. In this post we’ll be on classic Ubuntu, creating the example ROS prototype that we’ll use throughout the rest of the series as we work toward using ...


Marco Ceppi
12 April 2017

General availability of Kubernetes 1.6 on Ubuntu

Cloud and server News

We are proud to release the latest Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) supporting Kubernetes version 1.6.1! Kubernetes 1.6 is a major milestone and it is recommended that you read the upstream release notes for new features and changes. GA Features Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes, CDK, offers a production grade method for in ...


Jane Silber
12 April 2017

A new vantage point

Canonical announcements Article

I joined Canonical as COO in 2004, excited by the vision of Ubuntu and the possibilities that could unfold from the software, the collaboration with the open source community, the energy of an international, distributed start-up and the impact it could have on the world. When Mark asked me to become CEO in 2010, I ...


David Callé
11 April 2017

Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 and 26

Desktop Article

As part as our mission to get snaps running everywhere, we are pleased to announce that support for snaps has now officially landed in Fedora, starting with Fedora 24 and up. Big thanks to Neal Gompa who has been instrumental in landing snapd packages in the Fedora archive! Install your first snap on Fedora 1) ...