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  Canonical’s first DockerCon
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  May 27th will be Canonical’s first time at a DockerCon event. That’s exciting! Since our joint announcement back in November, the relationship between Canonical and Docker has become stronger as more projects arise. There’s still a lot to be done in a cloud-native world to make Open Source available to everyone in its purest form. […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonicals-first-dockercon
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  Data Lake, Data Lab, Data Hub: what’s the difference?
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  In this post we’ll explore the concepts of data lake, data hub and data lab. There are many opinions and interpretations of these concepts, and they are broadly comparable. In fact, many might say they’re synonymous and we’re just splitting hairs. Let’s look again.

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/data-lake-data-lab-data-hub-whats-the-difference
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  What’s new in security for Ubuntu 21.04?
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  Ubuntu 21.04 is the latest release of Ubuntu and comes at the mid-point between the most recent Long Term Supported (LTS) release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and the forthcoming 22.04 LTS release due in April 2022. This provides a good opportunity to take stock of some of the latest security features delivered in this release, […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/whats-new-in-security-for-ubuntu-21-04
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  A guide to ML model serving
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  TL;DR: How you deploy models into production is what separates an academic exercise from an investment in ML that is value-generating for your business. At scale, this becomes painfully complex. This guide walks you through industry best practices and methods, concluding with a practical tool, KFServing, that tackles model serving at scale. From training to […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/guide-to-ml-model-serving
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  The State of Robotics – April 2021
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  Together we have reached the end. Two partners, two allies, two distributions that supported millions of innovators have reached their end-of-life (EOL). April will be remembered as the month where ROS Kinetic and Ubuntu Xenial reached EOL. ROS Kinetic is one of the most used, widely deployed and extensively contributed ROS distributions (1st with 1233 […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-state-of-robotics-april-2021
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  Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks
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  It’s so easy these days to set-up your own WiFi network. You order a router online, plug it into the electrical socket, define a password and you’re good to go. WiFi is fast, reliable and easy to use. But if you want to cover a wider area or connect hundreds of small devices it quickly […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/introduction-to-open-source-private-lte-and-5g-networks
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  How to troubleshoot application issues and crashes with snapd gdbserver
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  Sometimes, applications may not run well, or they could even crash. When such issues occur, it is useful to have a consistent, reproducible method of triggering the problem, so that developers can have a reliable way and sufficient data to troubleshoot the issues and produce a fix. In the software world, the GNU Debugger (gdb) […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-to-troubleshoot-application-issues-and-crashes-with-snapd-gdbserver
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  Ubuntu in the wild – 13th of May 2021
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  The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-in-the-wild-08
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  Design and Web team summary – 11 May 2021
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  The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. This iteration, part of the team joined the Product Roadmap sprint. Meet the team Hey, I’m Pete and I joined the Canonical team […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/design-and-web-team-summary-11-may-2021
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  The snap developer’s guide on how to migrate to new bases
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  A couple of weeks ago, we published an article about Ubuntu 16.04 entering Extended Security Maintenance (ESM), and the implications of this change for snap publishers. We talked about the different options available to developers and publishers who still may rely on the older bases in their build process – free Ubuntu Advantage (UA) tokens, […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-snap-developers-guide-on-how-to-migrate-to-new-bases
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  Security and automation in Fintech infrastructure
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  The future of Fintech infrastructure is hybrid multi-cloud. Using private and public cloud infrastructure at the same time allows financial institutions to optimise their CapEx and OpEx costs. Why Private clouds? A private cloud is an integral part of a hybrid multi-cloud strategy for financial services organisations. It enables financial institutions to derive competitive advantage […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/security-and-automation-in-fintech-infrastructure
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  OpenStack Wallaby: OpenStack Charms 21.04
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  OpenStack Charms 21.04 release brings native support for OpenStack Wallaby and Ceph Pacific in Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack. Those latest versions of OpenStack and Ceph come with numerous performance improvements, making the open infrastructure stack even more suitable for network and storage intensive workloads. In order to simplify Charmed OpenStack installation on low-end hardware, the OpenStack […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/openstack-wallaby
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  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS transitions to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM)
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  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ transitions into the extended security maintenance (ESM) support phase at the end of April 2021 from its standard, five-year maintenance window for Ubuntu long term support (LTS) releases. Xenial Xerus is still supported until April 2024 with Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) through Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure, and on the public […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-16-04-lts-transitions-to-extended-security-maintenance-esm
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  Taming unruly logo sections
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  Making logo sections can be tricky. Logos come in all shapes and sizes, and without proper care, it is easy to end up with a poorly balanced layout. The problem has two aspects: Creating a responsive section that respects the layout structure of the page it is part of, which in most cases means being […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/taming-unruly-logo-sections
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  Design and Web team summary – 27 April 2021
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  The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web squad The Web Squad develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) released Ubuntu […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/design-and-web-team-summary-27-april-2021
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  Ubuntu in the wild – 27th of April 2021
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  The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-in-the-wild-07
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  Easily deploy and manage Mattermost on Kubernetes with the new Juju charmed operator
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  Introducing the Juju Charms Operator for Mattermost seamless application upgrades and supported features on Linux and Windows. We’re excited to announce our partnership with Canonical to build a Mattermost Operatorusing the Juju Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM), making it easy to install, integrate and upgrade Mattermost. The Mattermost Operator is part of Canonical’s Open Operator Collection, […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/easily-deploy-and-manage-mattermost-on-kubernetes-with-juju-charmed-operator
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  ROS enterprise support: 15 things you need to know
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  With the announcement of Robot Operating System (ROS) Extended Security Maintenance (ESM), we have received many questions from our robotics community interested in knowing more about this enterprise solution. Some of these questions are related to ROS Kinetic End-of-life, others explore how ROS ESM enables security compliance and our enterprise support for ROS. This blog […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ros-enterprise-support-15-things-you-need-to-know
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  OpenStack CentOS alternatives:<p></p>7 reasons to migrate to Ubuntu
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  Looking for OpenStack CentOS alternatives after recent changes in the CentOS project? Think Ubuntu – the most popular Linux distribution for OpenStack deployments, after CentOS, across development and production environments. Wondering what makes Ubuntu different? Here are seven reasons you should consider Ubuntu when planning your CentOS migration. Ubuntu powers many OpenStack deployments worldwide According […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/openstack-centos
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  What is KFServing?
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  TL;DR: KFServing is a novel cloud-native multi-framework model serving tool for serverless inference. A bit of history KFServing was born as part of the Kubeflow project, a joint effort between AI/ML industry leaders to standardize machine learning operations on top of Kubernetes. It aims at solving the difficulties of model deployment to production through the […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-is-kfserving