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Canonical
21 October 2020

Canonical & Ubuntu Join AfricaCom Virtual 2020

Ubuntu Article

This year, AfricaCom becomes a virtual event as part of the new Virtual Africa Tech Festival – the largest and most influential tech and telecoms event on the continent. Canonical and Ubuntu will be joining as a Lead Stream Sponsor, introducing the  Digital Infrastructure Investment stream of sessions and exhibits with a speaker session b ...


Canonical
21 October 2020

Automating Server Provisioning in phoenixNap’s Bare Metal Cloud with MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service)

Ubuntu Article

As part of the effort to build a flexible, cloud-native ready infrastructure, phoenixNAP collaborated with Canonical on enabling nearly instant OS installation. Canonical’s MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service) solution allows for automated OS installation on phoenixNAP’s Bare Metal Cloud, making it possible to set up a server in less than two minute ...


Andreea Munteanu
21 October 2020

Canonical & Ubuntu at KubeCon NA Virtual 2020

Ubuntu Article

When: November 17-20, 2020 Where: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual Platform  By now it’s no surprise that KubeCon NA is going virtual, like the majority of events worldwide. Is that bad news? Quite the opposite! According to CNCF, this year’s KubeCon EU – the first KubeCon to ever be hosted virtually –  made ...


Guest
21 October 2020

OpenStack at 10 – from peak to plateau of productivity

Ubuntu Article

This week is the latest Open Infrastructure Summit, in a week where the OpenStack Foundation became the Open Infrastructure Foundation to reflect the expansion of the organisation’s mission, scope and community to advance open source over the next decade to support open infrastructure. It is also ten years since OpenStack launched and a l ...


Tytus Kurek
21 October 2020

Telco cloud: what is that?

Telecommunications Article

Telco cloud or a network function virtualisation infrastructure (NFVI) is a cloud environment optimised for telco workloads. It is usually based on well-known technologies like OpenStack. Thus, in many ways, it resembles ordinary clouds. On the other hand, however, it differs from them. This is because telco workloads have very specific r ...


Joshua Powers
15 October 2020

Introducing Ubuntu support for Amazon EKS 1.18

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu optimized AMIs for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes versions 1.17 and 1.18 are now available. ...


Rhys Davies
15 October 2020

The Windows Calculator on Linux with Uno Platform

Internet of Things Article

The good folks in the Uno Platform community have ported the open-source Windows Calculator to Linux. And they’ve done it quicker than Microsoft could bring their browser to Linux.  The calculator is published in the snapstore and can be downloaded right away. If you’re on Ubuntu or you have snapd installed just run:  snap install ...


Canonical
15 October 2020

Introducing HA MicroK8s, the ultra-reliable, minimal Kubernetes

Canonical announcements Article

15th October 2020: Canonical today announced autonomous high availability (HA) clustering in MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes. Already popular for IoT and developer workstations, MicroK8s now gains resilience for production workloads in cloud and server deployments. High availability is enabled automatically once three or more nodes a ...


Andreea Munteanu
13 October 2020

Ubuntu wants to code the future of Italy

Ubuntu Article

When is CodeMotion Rome 2020: November 24th-26thLocation: virtual Italian spaceBooth: Canonical / Ubuntu Book a meeting In a year of challenges and changing times, the community gets closer and starts gathering in a different way.  From face to face meet-ups, we moved everything virtually and CodeMotion is not an exception. Made by develo ...


Rhys Davies
9 October 2020

Homelab clusters: LXD micro cloud on Raspberry Pi

Internet of Things Article

Set up and run your own homelab with the LXD Ubuntu Appliance. Spin up and manage virtual machines (VMs) and containers, run and test workloads across platforms and architectures, and rest assured of security and updates with Ubuntu Core. Follow the tutorial to get started or read on to learn why you might care.      Why ...


anastasiavalti
9 October 2020

Canonical & Ubuntu at Open Infrastructure Summit 2020

Ceph Article

When is Open Infrastructure Summit 2020: October 19th-23rd Where: Everywhere! This year’s OIS is virtual. Get your free ticket Book a meeting This year we’ve probably used the word ‘unprecedented’ almost as often as we’ve said ‘Linux’ and yet life must go on, and certainly so does tech. That’s why we were so thrilled to ...