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Kyle Fazzari
3 October 2017

Snap install-time setup: the install hook

Article Desktop

This article originally appeared on Kyle’s blog When it comes to developing snaps, there’s a particular confusion out there that I see over and over again: build-time versus run-time. For example: “I’m building a snap, but I can’t seem to convince Snapcraft to place my config file in $SNAP_DATA.” In this post, I want to show

Kyle Fazzari
3 October 2017

Stéphane Graber
2 October 2017

LXD Weekly Status #17

Article Cloud and server

Weekly status for the week of the 25th of September to the 1st of October 2017. Introduction This past week the entire LXD team was working together in New York city. We used this opportunity to talk about our next round of LTS releases, LXC 3.0, LXD 3.0 and LXCFS 3.0, all to be released

Stéphane Graber
2 October 2017

liam zheng
2 October 2017

First Ubuntu Core Workshop in Shenzhen

Article Internet of Things

Highlights The first Ubuntu Core workshop in Shenzhen Orange Pi Ubuntu Core App Store is online Three SOC companies showcase Ubuntu based solution Shenzhen city is a dream place for makers and startups that are building the hardware that will be seating on your shelf / deck/ car / table in the years to come.

liam zheng
2 October 2017

Joshua Powers
2 October 2017

Server Team at the Ubuntu Rally in NYC

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu Rally occurred last week in New York City where the entirety of the Canonical Engineering teams as well as various members of the community spent time working through final plans for Artful and continued discussions for next year’s LTS release.Below are notes on a few items last week’s event:Artful Final...

Joshua Powers
2 October 2017

Canonical
28 September 2017

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS selected for Samsung ARTIK Gateway modules

Article Internet of Things

Canonical today announced that it will bring its Ubuntu 16.04 operating system to the Samsung ARTIK™ internet of things ecosystem. The Samsung ARTIK platform is a fully integrated chip to cloud and production-ready Internet of Things solution, designed to help companies accelerate their product development process,...

Canonical
28 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 27, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com...

Canonical
28 September 2017

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
28 September 2017

Patch CDK #2: Multi arch support — s390x

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Konstantinos’ blog In our last post we discussed the steps required to build the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). That post should give you a good picture of the components coming together to form a release. Some of these components are architecture agnostic, some not. Here...

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
28 September 2017

David Britton
27 September 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 26 Sep 2017

Article Cloud and server

Hello Ubuntu Server! The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team

David Britton
27 September 2017

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
27 September 2017

Patch CDK #1: Build & Release

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Konstantin’s blog Happens all the time. You often come across a super cool open source project you would gladly contribute but setting up the development environment and learning to patch and release your fixes puts you off. The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) is not an...

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
27 September 2017

Canonical
26 September 2017

Four steps to mobilising legacy OpenStack and escaping StuckStack

Article Cloud and server

According to figures from the OpenStack Foundation, just 20 per cent of users are using the latest version of the software. Companies that fall to far behind updates risk becoming stuck on an older version of OpenStack, leaving themselves in danger of higher costs, diminishing agility and reduced security. We call this...

Canonical
26 September 2017

Stéphane Graber
25 September 2017

LXD Weekly Status #16

Article Cloud and server

This originally appeared at LinuxContainers Weekly status for the week of the 18th to the 24th of September 2017. Introduction The main highlight of this week was the release of LXD 2.18. We’ve otherwise been busy tracking down and fixing a number of issues, extended the user-agent string that LXD uses when talking to...

Stéphane Graber
25 September 2017

Guest
25 September 2017

UbuCon Europe 2017

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Marius Quabeck. I’ve been to many Ubuntu related events before, but what surprises me every time about UbuCons is the outstanding work by the community organising these events. Earlier this month, I was in Paris for UbuCon Europe 2017. I had quite high expectations about the event/location and the

Guest
25 September 2017

Tim Van Steenburgh
22 September 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes: Dev Summary (Sept 22 2017)

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Tim Van Steenburgh’s blog September 15th concluded our most recent development sprint on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). Here are some highlights: Canal Bundle Our new Canal bundle is published! If you need network policy support in your cluster, try it out: juju...

Tim Van Steenburgh
22 September 2017

Will Cooke
22 September 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: September 22, 2017

Article Desktop

We’re less than a week away from Final Beta! It seems to have come round very quickly this cycle. Next week we’re at the Ubuntu Rally in New York City where we will be putting the finishing touches to the beta. In the meantime, here’s a quick rundown on what happened this week: GNOME The

Will Cooke
22 September 2017