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Gabriel Aguiar Noury
28 October 2021

Taking Ubuntu for a spin (literally)

Robotics Article

Want to learn what we do for the automotive industry? Learn more about how Ubuntu is powering it. The designers of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway never could have predicted that unmanned autonomous vehicles would someday race on their track – much less robots that can see the checkered flag while their ‘drivers’ kiss the bricks. ...


Michele Mancioppi
28 October 2021

Canonical Observability Stack: Reimagining observability with MicroK8s and Grafana, Prometheus and Grafana Loki

Charms Article

Note: This post is co-authored by Jon Seager. Jon Seager is the Vice President of Enterprise Engineering at Canonical with responsibility for Juju, the Charmed Operator Framework, and several charmed operator development teams which operate across different software flavors, including observability, data platform, MLOps, identity, and mor ...


Lech Sandecki
28 October 2021

Enhance the security of your open-source applications and share feedback

Ubuntu Article

Are you spending time on high-impact, high-value activities, or are you constantly derailed by maintenance, support, and deployment challenges? Does your organisation consume open-source software that needs security patching? Where do you get the security updates from, and how do you track what’s available? Are you responsible for vulnera ...


Peter Mahnke
28 October 2021

Design and Web team summary – 22 October 2021

Design Design

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team My name is Albert, I’ve been working at Canonical for little longer than a year. As a ...


Oliver Smith
28 October 2021

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with Ubuntu Server 21.10 support is here

Cloud and server Article

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W has been announced and delivers a performance boost that will enable both Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Core support. ...


robgibbon
26 October 2021

In defence of pet servers

Apps Article

We all know the drill by now: modern compute infrastructure needs to be deterministic, disposable, commoditised and repeatable. We’re all farmers now, and our server estates must be treated like cattle – ready for slaughter at a moment’s notice. However, we must remember that the driver behind the new design rationale is primarily the unr ...


darkolarczyk
25 October 2021

Canonical & Ubuntu at Nvidia GTC 2021

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is once again proud to be a sponsor of the Nvidia GTC event! Happening virtually on November 8-11, the conference will feature a wide variety of sessions on AI, computer graphics, data science, and more. Register for the event During this GTC, Canonical will be hosting two sessions. Join for us a co-hosted speech ...


Tytus Kurek
25 October 2021

OpenStack Xena and OpenStack Charms 21.10

Cloud and server Article

The release of OpenStack Charms 21.10 brings native support for OpenStack Xena in Charmed OpenStack. This latest version of OpenStack comes with initial support for SmartNICs in Nova and further improvements around Neutron Open Virtual Network (OVN) driver integration.  In order to further simplify the job of the cloud operations teams, t ...


Oliver Smith
21 October 2021

5 Things to Check Out in Ubuntu Impish Indri

Desktop Article

For Linux desktop users, Ubuntu Impish Indri contains a number of new features plus a preview or two ahead of our next LTS release. Here are our top 5. ...


Monica R Ayhens-Madon
20 October 2021

Help Us Chart the Ubuntu Community Roadmap

Community Article

It hasn’t even been a week since the release of Impish Indri, and we already are gearing up for the journey to Jammy Jellyfish. If releases were a roadtrip, this is when we pull over, have some snacks, and find the best way to get to our next destination. The Desktop and Community Team want ...


Igor Ljubuncic
20 October 2021

Snapcraft experimental login – new, secure Web-based authentication method

Ubuntu Article

Some Snapcraft operations mandate that users identify themselves. For example, if you want to push your snap to the Snap Store, you need to login on the command line. The process relies on the internal login mechanism built into Snapcraft. A preview functionality for a new Web-based authentication flow is available as an experimental feat ...