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Canonical
16 August 2022

Microsoft and Canonical announce native .NET availability in Ubuntu 22.04 hosts and containers

Article Apps

.NET developers are now able to install the ASP.NET and .NET SDK and runtimes from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with a single “apt install” command Canonical releases new, ultra-small OCI-compliant appliance images, without a shell or package manager, for both the .NET 6 LTS and ASP.NET runtimes Microsoft and Canonical are...

Canonical
16 August 2022


Canonical
5 August 2022

Canonical talks cloud native and career development at community meetup in Manila

Article Cloud and server

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, joined ULAP.org in their cloud-native computing upskilling and career development initiative held in Dewise office in Manila, Philippines, last June. ULAP’s mission is to help underrepresented STEM students kickstart a career in cloud, data, and technology. Michelle Anne Tabirao, Data...

Canonical
5 August 2022


Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
2 August 2022

Patterns to achieve database High Availability

Article Cloud and server

The cost of database downtime A study from ManageForce estimated the cost of a database outage to be an average of $474,000 per hour. Long database outages are the result of poor design concerning high availability. With the exponential growth of data that is generated over the internet (which is expected to reach 180...

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
2 August 2022


Michael Iatrou
26 July 2022

Omnichannel Enablement: 4 technology success factors

Article Cloud and server

For retailers considering a transition to omnichannel, there are four key success factors to keep in mind.

Michael Iatrou
26 July 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
30 June 2022

The software operator design pattern: disadvantages – part 5

Article Charms

The software operator is a design pattern – it is a proven design that has been applied in many situations and implemented by several frameworks. Its widespread adoption in the industry has allowed us to study its consequences, both good and bad. This is important because software developers and IT architects need to know when

Michael C. Jaeger
30 June 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
29 June 2022

The software operator design pattern: advantages – part 4

Article Cloud and server

The software operator is a design pattern. Its design is based on successful applications where this approach was found useful. In other words, it’s a proven approach that can be recommended to others. But like all approaches, it’s important to understand their positive and negative impact. Software developers need to...

Michael C. Jaeger
29 June 2022


Philip Williams
29 June 2022

What’s new in Charmed Ceph with Ceph Quincy on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

Article Ceph

Along with the usual bug fixing, maintenance, and upstream version enablement work that goes into every Charmed Ceph release, we also worked on a number of new features in this cycle. Stand-alone NFS shares In Ceph, you can use CephFS for your network file share needs, but sometimes there are applications or use cases that

Philip Williams
29 June 2022


Hugo Huang
24 June 2022

Weave Cybersecurity into your product design

Article Cloud and server

How important security is for your application and digital services? “Very important”, this is the answer we get the most often from Product Managers and Executives. Nobody wants the malware to take advantage of the vulnerabilities of their applications. However, any access point to the internet can be an entry point...

Hugo Huang
24 June 2022


Omar Ali Amin
17 June 2022

The private cloud future: Data centres as a service

Article Cloud and server

How to build a future-proof private cloud that offloads the operational complexity and allows you to focus on innovation and digital transformation.

Omar Ali Amin
17 June 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
16 June 2022

Operator Day at Kubecon EU 2022 – recordings available!

Article Charms

The Operator Day at Kubecon EU 2022, hosted by Canonical, took place on Monday 16 May  2022. We thank everyone for attending the event. Our thanks go out especially to those who engaged with us via chat during the online event. We enjoyed answering questions and having conversations during the presentations.  If you...

Michael C. Jaeger
16 June 2022


Tytus Kurek
14 June 2022

Composable infrastructure, sustainable computing and more: OIS 2022 highlights

Article Cloud and server

OIS 2022 is over, but the OpenInfra community stays tuned for the next OpenInfra Summit, taking place in Vancouver in 2023! This year’s summit in Berlin offered a lot of insightful keynotes and technical sessions. Speakers discussed the most recent trends in the industry, including composable infrastructure and...

Tytus Kurek
14 June 2022


Miona Aleksic
9 June 2022

LXD virtual machines: an overview

Article Cloud and server

In this blog, we’ll explore some of the main VM features that help you run your infrastructure on LXD.

Miona Aleksic
9 June 2022


Omar Ali Amin
2 June 2022

Private cloud: Avoiding the high cost of operations

Article Cloud and server

How to build a private cloud strategy that cuts down costs and allows you to focus on your business goals?

Omar Ali Amin
2 June 2022


Philip Williams
26 May 2022

Charmed Ceph and Hybrid Clouds at Cephalocon 2022

Article Ceph

UPDATE: Cephalocon 2022 has been postponed In just a few weeks Cephalocon will be held in Portland at the Oregon Convention Center, as well as online for those unable to travel.  After a pandemic induced hiatus, this will be the first gathering of Ceph developers and users in 3 years. Among the attendees, you will

Philip Williams
26 May 2022