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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
5 February 2019

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr Extended Security Maintenance

Article Desktop

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – As 14.04 reaches the end of its five-year LTS window in April 2019, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’ transitions to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM). ESM is a feature available through Ubuntu Advantage, Canonical’s commercial support package. ESM as a stand-alone addition was available for 12.04...

Canonical
5 February 2019


Canonical
4 February 2019

Ubuntu at Embedded World 2019

Article Internet of Things

Event Details: Date: February 26 – 28, 2019 Location: Nuremberg, Germany Venue: Messe Stand: 4-660 Canonical is excited to return to one of the leading events in the IoT calendar – Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany. At Embedded World we will be demonstrating how organisations can bring their IoT solutions to market...

Canonical
4 February 2019


Canonical
22 January 2019

Ubuntu Core 18 released for secure, reliable IoT devices

Canonical News Internet of Things

Canonical today published Ubuntu Core 18, bringing the popular Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to high-security embedded devices. “Dell has been working closely with Canonical over the past three years to certify Ubuntu Core on all our Edge Gateway platforms. Ubuntu Core enables our customers to build highly secure, stable IoT...

Canonical
22 January 2019


Canonical
21 January 2019

What will be the biggest development trends in 2019?

Article Cloud and server

What’s the most popular programming language today among software developers? It’s still JavaScript, with over 10M users globally. Python has reached 7M active developers and is climbing up the ranks. How do we know that? Thanks to the Developer Economics survey. Every year it reaches over 40,000 developers in 167+...

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21 January 2019


Canonical
16 January 2019

MAAS 2.5 : Growing the ecosystem and support for KVM micro-clouds

Article Cloud and server

Our latest release makes for a very exciting point in the MAAS evolution. As datacenter (DC) infrastructure grows at unparalleled scale fueled by new applications and services such as connected autonomous cars, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) and IoT, the need for automated bare metal provisioning has never been more...

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16 January 2019


Canonical
3 January 2019

Mark Shuttleworth on success with OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

As one of the founding members and most popular distributions in OpenStack the conferences, now the Open Infrastructure Summit, is a valuable event that Canonical uses to meet with the open source community. During the final OpenStack Summit, Mark Shuttleworth, CEO, Canonical spoke about success with OpenStack being...

Canonical
3 January 2019


Canonical
27 December 2018

The evolution of Canonical at KubeCon

Article Cloud and server

Stephan Fabel, director of products at Canonical spoke to Swapnil Bhartiya from TFIR at KubeCon in Seattle about the evolution of Canonical at KubeCon, the excitement around MicroK8s and Kubernetes announcements.  The full interview can be watched below and can also be found on the TFIR site. 

Canonical
27 December 2018


Canonical
11 December 2018

Canonical announces support for Kubernetes 1.13 on Ubuntu

Canonical News Canonical announcements

Canonical is pleased to announce full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.13 on Ubuntu, including support for kubeadm, and updates to MicroK8s – our popular single-node deployment of Kubernetes. Canonical’s certified, Charmed Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) is built from pure upstream binaries, and offers simplified...

Canonical
11 December 2018


Canonical
6 December 2018

Canonical and Dell EMC provide certified, production-ready Kubernetes solution

Article Canonical announcements

Dell EMC and Canonical today announced the continued evolution of their long-standing partnership to bring a tested and validated container orchestration solution to market through a reference architecture framework that helps organisations quickly and confidently implement Kubernetes technologies into production. The...

Canonical
6 December 2018


Canonical
6 December 2018

Canonical launches MicroK8s – deploy Kubernetes in seconds

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical has released MicroK8s – a fast and efficient upstream Kubernetes delivered as a single snap package that installs on 42 flavours of Linux. With a small disk and memory footprint, MicroK8s provides an efficient way to deploy Kubernetes in seconds, whether on the desktop, the server, an edge cloud, or IoT...

Canonical
6 December 2018


Canonical
6 December 2018

Canonical widens Kubernetes support with kubeadm

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical is pleased to announce commercial support for Kubernetes clusters deployed using kubeadm. Companies using kubeadm to deploy Kubernetes in production, development or multi-stage environments, can immediately benefit from enterprise support through Ubuntu Advantage for Kubernetes support on a per-node basis....

Canonical
6 December 2018


Canonical
6 December 2018

Canonical and Supermicro collaborate to advance enterprises’ Kubernetes adoption

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and Supermicro, a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking and green technologies, today announce a joint offering helping enterprises to accelerate the design and deployment of their Kubernetes stack through an optimised, pre-certified solution. With...

Canonical
6 December 2018


Canonical
28 November 2018

Ubuntu available in new AWS Marketplace for Containers

Article Canonical announcements

The new AWS Marketplace for Containers, launched this week at AWS Re:Invent, provides another fantastic opportunity for developers across public, private and multi-cloud environments to use Ubuntu. The AWS Marketplace provides customers with a trusted selection of container software options to discover and deploy to...

Canonical
28 November 2018


Canonical
26 November 2018

Ubuntu at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon

Article Cloud and server

KubeCon and CloudNativeCon are just around the corner and Ubuntu will be out in force. Held between December 10th – 13th at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, KubeCon and CloudNativeCon will be a great opportunity to meet and talk with the Ubuntu team here at Canonical. The Ubuntu team will be showcasing their

Canonical
26 November 2018