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Igor Ljubuncic
7 January 2022

The Future of Snapcraft

Ubuntu Article

System hysteresis, when applied to software, can roughly be defined as an overall lag between desired implementation of code and actual implementation of said code. Ideally, this delay should be minimal, and programmers would be able to make instantaneous changes and improvements to their applications. In reality, things are more complex ...


Michael C. Jaeger
6 January 2022

Application composability and the shipping container

Charms Article

The previous blog post talked about the composability of applications. The key element for composing applications is defining the relations between application elements. And supporting relations is one of the advantages of the Charmed Operator Framework – including its runtime, the Charmed Operator Lifecycle Manager. The shipping containe ...


Tytus Kurek
6 January 2022

OpenStack challenges 2022

Cloud and server Article

Happy New Year 2022! The fireworks are all fired, the champagne is over. It is time to get back to work. We are glad to see you here though. 2021 was a good year for OpenStack and its Ubuntu-based community. First, we all have seen Ubuntu becoming the number one operating system (OS) for OpenStack ...


Michael C. Jaeger
5 January 2022

Application composability – a cloud computing perspective

Charms Article

Let’s remember the time in the 2000s when companies introduced their cloud computing offerings at a large scale. New services were put into the popular IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS categories. New kinds of storage and messaging technologies were promoted. Also, novel approaches were discussed, such as designing applications for horizontal scalabi ...


Michael C. Jaeger
4 January 2022

Deploy and maintain applications with Charmed Operators

Ubuntu Article

Recently, I remembered a situation when I was in elementary school and visited a friend at his house. At some point, his mother wanted us to go to a neighbour and ask to borrow some eggs. We went a few houses down, opened the garden gate, entered through the door to the house, and arrived ...


Peter Mahnke
28 December 2021

Design and Web team summary – 3 December 2021

Design Article

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team Hi! My name is Peter and I’m a Senior Web Engineer on the Web Team. I worked ...


Alex Chalkias
28 December 2021

Kubernetes infographic: usage of cloud native technology in 2021

Kubernetes Article

2021 has been an interesting year for the Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystem.  Due to the pandemic, cloud adoption saw a big spike in adoption. As the year wraps up soon, we wanted to reflect on the top findings from the Kubernetes and cloud native operations report and we have a cool infographic for you. ...


Nathan Hart
23 December 2021

How-To: Docker on Windows and Mac with Multipass

Tutorials Article

Update: there is now a more streamlined way to run Docker on Multipass – see this tutorial for more details. Original blog below: If you’re looking for an alternative to Docker Desktop or to integrate Docker into your Multipass workflow, this how-to is for you.  Multipass can host a docker engine inside an Ubuntu VM ...


Philip Williams
22 December 2021

A look forward to storage in 2022

Ceph Article

It’s that time of year, where we start to look ahead, and think about the ongoing trends in our various industries. One thing is for certain in the storage industry: capacity demand remains high, with the industry observing continued exponential growth. Growth, growth, growth More and more data is being created every day. It truly ...


Fouaz Bouguerra
17 December 2021

Data centre networking: SmartNICs

Internet of Things Article

Providing an overview of SmartNIC and DPU, its architecture and the main benefits they bring to the modern data centre. ...


Igor Ljubuncic
17 December 2021

Snapcrafters – One for all, all for one

Ubuntu Article

In mid-2017, a small group of techies banded together and formed a team that would specialize in creating community-supported snaps of applications for which there was or would be no upstream support. This team called itself: Snapcrafters. Over time, it slowly, gradually grew, attracting more people and bringing yet more snaps under its u ...