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Edge computing monitoring with Kubernetes
By Galem KAYO, 29 July 2019
This blog demonstrates how to easily deploy monitoring tools at the edge using Kubernetes. In IoT scenarios, such a deployment brings the benefits of privacy,...
Getting started with AI
By Alex Cattle, 25 July 2019
From the smallest startups to the largest enterprises alike, organisations are using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to make the best, fastest,...
Handy productivity software for your home and office
By Igor Ljubuncic, 25 July 2019
Discovery is an integral part of any store experience. Sometimes, you know what you want and need, and the experience can be short and transactional. On other...
The 10 new rules of open source infrastructure
By Stephan Fabel, 25 July 2019
Recently, I gave a keynote at the Cloud Native / OpenStack Days in Tokyo titled “the ten new rules of open source infrastructure”. It was well received and...
Getting Started with Serverless Computing using Knative
By Carmine Rimi, 25 July 2019
A portable, multi-cloud install for Knative, using Microk8s.
Mir support for Wayland
By Alan Griffiths, 24 July 2019
What is Mir, what is Wayland, do I care? Shells for graphical interfaces come in many forms, from digital signage and kiosks that just show a single full...
BT turns to Canonical Ubuntu to enable next generation 5G Cloud Core
By Canonical, 24 July 2019
Today, Canonical announces its Charmed OpenStack on Ubuntu has been selected by BT as a key component of its next generation 5G Core. Canonical, the company...
Getting started with Ubuntu Core – streaming video from a Raspberry Pi
By Galem KAYO, 23 July 2019
Artificial intelligence relies on machine vision just as much as human intelligence relies on vision. Image sensors are, therefore, crucial for AI...
Community Snapcrafter on MicroK8s, summits and the evolving nature of snaps
By Sarah Dickinson, 23 July 2019
In January 2018, Dani Llewellyn joined her first Snapcraft Summit in Seattle in her role as a community Snapcrafter. At that event, we discussed her views on...
Robot lifecycle management with Ubuntu
By Galem KAYO, 19 July 2019
Lifecycle management entails fulfilling changing requirements over time. However, there is a gap that the existing robot development frameworks do not...
CMake leverages the Snapcraft Summit with Travis CI to build snaps
By Sarah Dickinson, 18 July 2019
CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. It is used to control the software compilation process...
Handy snapcraft features: Remote build
By Igor Ljubuncic, 18 July 2019
As you probably know, there are many ways you can build snaps: locally using snapcraft, with CI systems like Travis, through Launchpad, and also via the free...
How to build a lightweight system container cluster
By Alex Cattle, 18 July 2019
LXD, the system container manager, developed by Canonical and shipped by default with Ubuntu, makes it possible to create many containers of various Linux...
Octave turns to snaps to reduce dependency on Linux distribution maintainers
By Sarah Dickinson, 15 July 2019
Octave is a numerical computing environment largely compatible with MATLAB. As free software, Octave runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD, and Windows. At the 2019...
Deploying Kubernetes at the edge – Part I: building blocks
By Carmine Rimi, 11 July 2019
Edge computing continues to gain momentum to help solve unique challenges across telco, media, transportation, logistics, agricultural and other market...
MAAS 2.6 – ESXi storage, multiple gateways, HTTP boot and more
By Andres Rodriguez, 9 July 2019
Canonical is happy to announce the availability of MAAS 2.6. This new release introduces a range of very exciting features and several improvements that...