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25 March 2021

Canonical, Collabora, Nextcloud deliver work-from-home solution to Raspberry Pi and enterprise ARM users

Article Canonical announcements

March 25th, 2021 – Canonical, Collabora and Nextcloud announce the immediate availability of a content collaboration platform for 64bit ARM for both consumers and enterprises. Building on the prior Nextcloud Ubuntu Appliance it adds with Collabora Online, the first viable self-hosted web office solution on the popular...

Canonical
25 March 2021

Canonical
25 February 2021

DFI and Canonical offer risk-free system updates and reduced software lead times for the IoT ecosystem

Article Canonical announcements

Feb. 25, 2021 – DFI and Canonical signed the Ubuntu IoT Hardware Certification Partner Program. DFI is the world’s first industrial computer manufacturer to join the program aimed at offering Ubuntu-certified IoT hardware ready for the over-the-air software update. The online update mechanism of and the authorized DFI...

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25 February 2021

Canonical
17 February 2021

Canonical’s Partner Program Gets Industry Recognition for its Growth and Depth of Portfolio

Article Ubuntu

Canonical announced that its channel partner program has grown by five times in three years, expanding its global presence to several new markets.

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17 February 2021

Canonical
2 February 2021

Ubuntu Core 20 secures Linux for IoT

Article Internet of Things

2nd February 2021: Canonical’s Ubuntu Core 20, a minimal, containerised version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for IoT devices and embedded systems, is now generally available. This major version bolsters device security with secure boot, full disk encryption, and secure device recovery. Ubuntu Core builds on the Ubuntu...

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2 February 2021

Canonical
13 January 2021

Telefonica Brazil selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack for industry-leading cloud-based online charging system

Article Canonical announcements

13th January 2021 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack has been selected by Telefonica Brazil to – in a first for the region – migrate its online charging system (OCS) to its private cloud, Unica Next. The transformation project will see eight private clouds built on Charmed...

Canonical
13 January 2021

Canonical
4 January 2021

Juju vs Infrastructure as Code Tools

Article Cloud and server

Summary Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, like Terraform, CloudFormation and Pulumi, ensure easily reproducible infrastructure setups. Juju focuses on the lifecycle and relations of applications. Juju and IaC tools mostly operate on different layers of abstraction. Use Juju to manage any application, from simple web...

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4 January 2021

Canonical
7 December 2020

How to switch the Docker container runtime to containerd with Charmed Kubernetes

Article Ubuntu

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 Kubernetes is deprecating Docker as a container runtime after v1.20. Docker as an underlying runtime is being deprecated in favor of runtimes that use the Container...

Canonical
7 December 2020

Canonical
1 December 2020

Install Amazon EKS Distro anywhere

Article Canonical announcements

One install, one cluster, snap! Today, we’re excited to announce that EKS is available outside of AWS, on any Ubuntu system, with the EKS snap. This announcement builds on the existing collaboration between Amazon and Canonical to ensure the quality, security, and usability of Ubuntu-based EKS clusters on AWS. “Amazon...

Canonical
1 December 2020

Canonical’s LTS Docker Image Portfolio is now available on Amazon ECR Public

Article Ubuntu

Today, Canonical announced the availability of its curated set of secure container application images on Amazon ECR Public, complementing the current offering. Multiple registries, one product Developers now also have access to the LTS Docker Image Portfolio from the Amazon ECR Public registry. Free and commercial...

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1 December 2020

Canonical
24 November 2020

Canonical publishes LTS Docker Image Portfolio on Docker Hub

Article Canonical announcements

Ten year maintenance commitment on app images provides secure cloud software supply chain November 24th 2020: Canonical has published the LTS Docker Image Portfolio, a curated set of secure container application images, on Docker Hub. The LTS Docker Image Portfolio comes with up to ten years Extended Security...

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24 November 2020

Canonical
13 November 2020

Canonical’s Open Operator Collection extends Kubernetes operators to traditional Linux and Windows applications

Article Cloud and server

13th November 2020: Canonical’s Open Operator Collection, the largest collection of application operators, now supports both cloud-native and traditional applications on Windows and Linux. The collection is hosted at Charmhub.io and follows the Open Operator Manifesto. Next-generation operations unify CAAS and IAAS “The...

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13 November 2020

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10 November 2020

Malawi’s TNM selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to help lead virtualisation charge

Article Canonical announcements

10 November 2020 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack, an open source private cloud solution that allows businesses to control large pools of computer, storage and networking in a datacentre, has been selected by Telekom Networks Malawi Plc (TNM), to modernise and virtualise...

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10 November 2020

Canonical
5 November 2020

MTS selects OpenStack and Canonical for next-generation cloud infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

5th November, 2020: MOSCOW, Russia – MTS (NYSE:MBT; MOEX:MTSS), Russia’s largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services, announces the selection of Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to power the company’s next-generation cloud infrastructure. MTS plans to leverage Charmed OpenStack’s advanced...

Canonical
5 November 2020

Canonical
2 November 2020

How Kubernetes is transforming the industrial edge

Article Internet of Things

According to leading independent researchers teknowlogy | PAC, open source platforms – and Kubernetes in particular – are central to the future of digital factories. The PAC RADAR report offers a detailed market analysis of industrial digitalisation trends, and it predicts that Kubernetes-based platforms that bring...

Canonical
2 November 2020