Cloud and Server

Joshua Powers
9 July 2020

Ubuntu Support of AWS Graviton2 Instances

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog Ubuntu is the industry-leading operating system for use in the cloud. Every day millions of Ubuntu instances are launched in private and public clouds around the world. Canonical takes pride in offering support for the latest cloud features and functionality. As of...

Joshua Powers
9 July 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
9 July 2020

How to manage snap updates

Article Cloud and server

Updates are an integral part of the software lifecycle. Quite often, they bring improvements, vital security patches – and sometimes, unfortunately, bugs, too. In mission-critical environments, it is important to assert a high degree of oversight and precision over updates. Snaps come with a built-in automatic update...

Igor Ljubuncic
9 July 2020

Alex Chalkias
9 July 2020

MicroK8s HA tech preview is now available

Article Cloud and server

High availability (HA) for MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes, is now available as a tech preview for Linux, Windows and macOS. The Kubernetes control plane can now be distributed across multiple nodes, bringing resiliency to the cluster while maintaining a low footprint using Dqlite, the distributed SQL engine as the...

Alex Chalkias
9 July 2020

Alex Chalkias
2 July 2020

Encryption at rest with Ceph

Article Ceph

Do you have a big data center? Do you have terabytes of confidential data stored in that data center? Are you worried that your data might be exposed to malicious attacks? One of the most prominent security features of storage solutions is encryption at rest. This blog will explain this in more detail and how

Alex Chalkias
2 July 2020

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
29 June 2020

Data centre automation for HPC

Webinar Cloud and server

Friction points in HPC DevOps Many High Performance Computing (HPC) setups are still handcrafted configurations where tuning changes can take days or weeks. This is because the more you tune and optimise something, the more bespoke and unique it is, and the more unique something is, the lower the chances that things...

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
29 June 2020

sidfaber
29 June 2020

Installing ROS in LXD Containers

Article Cloud and server

It’s the season for updates. The last few weeks have ushered in ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2 Foxy, both of which target the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa. As always, new releases come with trepidation: how can I install new software and test compatibility, yet keep my own environment stable until I know

sidfaber
29 June 2020

robgibbon
29 June 2020

What is Apache Kafka?

Article Cloud and server

Discover Charmed Kafka Everyone hates waiting in a queue. On the other hand, when you’re routing an absolute storm of event data around a cloud environment, message queues are your best friend. Enter Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is a free, open source event streaming platform that enables you to create queues for...

robgibbon
29 June 2020

Alex Chalkias
25 June 2020

Ceph storage on VMware

Article Ceph

If you were thinking that nothing will change in your VMware data centre in the following years, think again. Data centre storage is experiencing a paradigm shift. Software-defined storage solutions, such as Ceph, bring flexibility and reduce operational costs. As a result, Ceph storage on VMware has the potential to...

Alex Chalkias
25 June 2020

esj
24 June 2020

AMD EPYC Rome support in Ubuntu Server

Article Cloud and server

The second generation of AMD EPYC central processing unit (CPU), codenamed Rome, provides outstanding performance and “hardened at the code” security. It was launched in 2019 and has already been widely adopted. Support for AMD EPYC Rome has been merged to the Linux kernel starting with 5.4 series. Therefore, all Ubuntu...

esj
24 June 2020

Tytus Kurek
16 June 2020

Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution?

Article Cloud and server

Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution? If you are asking, you are probably wondering if you can use Ubuntu anywhere else other than your workstation or development environment. Perhaps you are wondering whether you can implement Ubuntu in your enterprise, including production environments? If that is the case, I...

Tytus Kurek
16 June 2020

Canonical
15 June 2020

OVHcloud drives flash storage strategy with LXD

Article Ceph

With more than 1.5 million global customers – including Sainsburys and Michelin – OVHcloud is Europe’s largest cloud computing provider, and the third largest web hosting company in the world. It goes without saying that storage is mission critical for an organisation like OVHcloud, but finding a solution that was...

Canonical
15 June 2020

Thibaut Rouffineau
9 June 2020

Ubuntu at the Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit

Article Cloud and server

Event overview and main themes On June 16th 2020, the Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit will be the occasion to meet and hear from all the communities, entrepreneurs and developers involved in building the future of open source technologies in the cloud. This is an opportunity to explore all the areas where...

Thibaut Rouffineau
9 June 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
5 June 2020

Fabrica – Your self-hosted snap factory

Article Cloud and server

There are many ways one can go about building snaps. You can do it on your local system, by manually running commands in a terminal window. If you have a developer account in the Snap Store, you can use the integrated build functionality to create snaps. You can also use Launchpad, Electron Builder or a

Igor Ljubuncic
5 June 2020

Alex Chalkias
5 June 2020

OSM#9 Hackfest: the highlights

Article Cloud and server

Canonical concluded its participation in the 9th OSM Hackfest with a renewed sense of fellowship with the Open Source MANO (OSM) community and great pride in the collaborative work that enabled an end-to-end mobile network orchestration demo using OSM’s model-driven capabilities to onboard network services. Following...

Alex Chalkias
5 June 2020

Cloud and Server

All you need to know about designing, building, and managing your OpenStack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale-out deployment.

All you need to know about designing, building, and managing your
OpenStack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale-out deployment.