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5 April 2022

Standing with Ukraine

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

In response to the Russian invasion and acts of war in Ukraine, Canonical has sent notice of termination of support, professional services, and channel partnerships with Russian enterprises. We will not resume such engagements while broad and democratically instituted sanctions on Russia remain in place. We will not restrict access to sec ...

Alex Chalkias
4 April 2022

Zero-ops scaling Kubernetes storage with MicroK8s and OpenEBS Mayastor

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This is a guest post, originally posted on Angelos Kolaitis‘ personal blog, reproduced here with his permission. Angelos is a MicroK8s software engineer at Canonical. How we brought a universal, cluster-wide storage solution to MicroK8s. Why is storage in Kubernetes hard? Kubernetes is well-known as an open-source system for automating de ...

Michael C. Jaeger
31 March 2022

The software operator design pattern — part 2

Charms Ubuntu tech blog

This blog post continues with the previous blog post about design patterns and the software operator pattern. In this part, this post takes a closer look at the description of the software operator pattern. What is a design pattern? Over the years, the software development and programming community developed a common understanding of desi ...

Michael C. Jaeger
31 March 2022

Design patterns and the software operator — part 1

Charms Ubuntu tech blog

In the early days of software development, computers were sold with compilers and interpreters. Users wrote mostly their own small programs instead of buying software. During that time, most didn’t even consider downloading software as only a few were connected to mailboxes or the UUCP network. Most of the software was provided by the com ...

Michael C. Jaeger
31 March 2022

Operator Day hosted by Canonical at Kubecon EU 2022

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

May 16th 2022, virtual eventWeek of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2022 What is Operator Day? Software operators are crucial elements in the Kubernetes landscape. They implement operational tasks covering everyday application management. They help human operators, administrators to run their applications efficiently and effectively. On Opera ...

Canonical
31 March 2022

OpenStack Yoga on Ubuntu LTS delivers highly performant infrastructure for telcos and researchers with SmartNICs and DPUs

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

March 31, London – Canonical today announced the general availability of OpenStack Yoga on Ubuntu 22.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Beta and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This new version of OpenStack sets a foundation for next-generation, highly performant infrastructure as needed by telco NFV, media streaming, traffic analysis and HPC services, using S ...

amylily
31 March 2022

MasterClass: Concept design

Design Ubuntu tech blog

Concept design is the fundamental of interaction design and the deepest level of design decisions. A concept in this context is described as a bridge between the designer and the users, who will only be able to make effective use of the interface if they grasp the underlying intent of the concept that is designed.  ...

Edoardo Barbieri
31 March 2022

A guide to Linux for embedded applications

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

An embedded device is a hardware and software system that performs a dedicated function within a larger computer system. It is typically resource-constrained and comprises a processing engine.  The software of an embedded Linux system runs on top of the Linux kernel, the fundamental core of the OS with complete control over everything occ ...

Miona Aleksic
31 March 2022

LXD vs Docker

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

When talking about containers, a common confusion for potential users of LXD is that LXD is an alternative to Docker or Kubernetes. However, LXD and Docker are not competing container technologies, and they tend to serve completely different purposes. In this blog, we’ll briefly discuss the differences and the suitable use cases for both. ...

Maciej Mazur
31 March 2022

The Telco Podcast

Telecommunications Ubuntu tech blog

The telco podcast announcement ...

Michael C. Jaeger
30 March 2022

Getting started with Juju and Charmed Operators: three awesome videos

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Getting started with software can be confusing – depending on the complexity of the software, of course. Despite the extensive documentation available for Charmed Operator SDK and Juju some just prefer to watch video material to start with. So, let’s take the opportunity to have a look at available tutorials and presentations available on ...

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