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279 posts from 2019
Kubernetes 1.16 beta now available, with support from Canonical
By Carmine Rimi, 26 August 2019
Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.16, starting with the beta release, with support covering the following installation mechanisms –...
MicroK8s gets powerful add-ons
By anaqvi, 23 August 2019
We are excited to announce new Cilium and Helm add-ons, coming to MicroK8s! These add-ons add even more power to your Kubernetes environment built on...
Useful security software from the Snap Store
By Igor Ljubuncic, 22 August 2019
Overall, most Linux distributions offer sane, reasonable defaults that balance security and functionality quite well. However, most of the security mechanisms...
Jupyter looks to distro-agnostic packaging for the democratisation of installation
By Sarah Dickinson, 21 August 2019
When users of your application range from high school students to expert data scientists, it’s often wise to avoid any assumptions about their system...
How to add a linter to ROS 2
By Ted Kern, 21 August 2019
A well configured linter can catch common errors before code is even run or compiled. ROS 2 makes it easy to add linters of your choice and make them part of...
Design and Web team summary – 16 August 2019
By Robin Winslow, 19 August 2019
This iteration was the Web & design team’s first iteration of the second half of our roadmap cycle, after returning from the mid-cycle roadmap sprint in...
Linting ROS 2 Packages with mypy
By Ted Kern, 15 August 2019
One of the most common complaints from developers moving into large Python codebases is the difficulty in figuring out type information, and the ease by which...
8 Ways Snaps are Different
By Alan Pope, 15 August 2019
Depending on the audience, the discussion of software packaging elicits very different responses. Users generally don’t care how software is packaged, so long...
Why multi-cloud has become a must-have for enterprises: six experts weigh in
By Stephan Fabel, 15 August 2019
Remember the one-size-fits-all approach to cloud computing? That was five years ago. Today, multi-cloud architectures that use two, three, or more providers,...
OpenStack Charms 19.07 – Percona Cluster Cold Start, DVR SNAT and more
By Tytus Kurek, 14 August 2019
Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 19.07. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements...
Provisioning ESXi with MAAS: An overview
By Andres Rodriguez, 12 August 2019
MAAS has supported provisioning ESXi starting from MAAS 2.5. However, MAAS 2.6 has expanded its support and provides new features that significantly improves...
Julia and Jeff discover the ease of snaps at the Snapcraft Summit
By Sarah Dickinson, 12 August 2019
Julia is an open source, high-level, general-purpose, dynamic programming language designed for numerical analysis and computational science, launched in...