If you were thinking that nothing will change in your VMware data centre in the following years, think again. Data centre storage is experiencing a paradigm shift. Software-defined storage solutions, such as Ceph, bring flexibility and reduce operational costs. As a result, Ceph storage on VMware has the potential to revolutionise VMware
Kubeflow Pipelines are a great way to build portable, scalable machine learning workflows. It is one part of a larger Kubeflow ecosystem that aims to reduce the complexity and time involved with training and deploying machine learning models at scale. In this blog series, we demystify Kubeflow pipelines and showcase this method to produce
What’s new? This new release of MAAS brings three key new benefits: Virtual machines with LXD (Beta) Tighter, more responsive UX External/remote PostgreSQL database If you know what you want, go to maas.io/install, otherwise let’s dive in and explore these further. Virtual machines (VMs) with LXD (Beta) MAAS 2.8 can set up L XD-based VM
What is Ubuntu Masters? The Ubuntu Masters conference stemmed from a vision to bring the engineering community together to freely exchange innovative ideas, in the spirit of open source. After two hugely successful conferences, connecting IT teams across industries and countries, and featuring speakers from innovators such as Adobe, Netfl
The second generation of AMD EPYC central processing unit (CPU), codenamed Rome, provides outstanding performance and “hardened at the code” security. It was launched in 2019 and has already been widely adopted. Support for AMD EPYC Rome has been merged to the Linux kernel starting with 5.4 series. Therefore, all Ubuntu releases with 5.4
This article is written by Taiten Peng. Have you got i.MX6 hardware and are wondering how Ubuntu Core would run on it? In this blog, we will build an Ubuntu Core 18 image with the generic Ubuntu kernel for an i.MX6 based Boundary Devices board. The Nitrogen6X hardware from Boundary Device is well supported upstream
The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is now available in North America and selected EMEA countries* certified with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed to work straight out of the box. This is the first system available on the market with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, released in April 2020, and continues the long-standing partnership with Canonical which is
The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team My name is Wayne, I’m part of the Brand team that sits within Web & Design. I’ve been at Canonical for almost 2 years now, in those 2 years I
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We have been transitioning the web interface for MAAS from AngularJS to React. One of the reasons for this is to make the interface faster. The main page with performance issues is the list of machines. This list needs to be fast at displaying a few hundred machines at a bare minimum. So what happens
At Build 2020 Microsoft announced support for GPU compute on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Ubuntu is the leading Linux distribution for WSL and a sponsor of WSLConf. Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, provides enterprise support for Ubuntu on WSL through Ubuntu Advantage. This guide will walk early adopters through the steps on turning
We’re pleased to welcome the newest ROS 2 release, Foxy Fitzroy. A long-term support (LTS) release, (supported for three years), Foxy runs on the latest Ubuntu LTS, the also-recently-released Ubuntu 20.04 (supported for five years, or even longer with an ESM subscription). Putting together a distribution like Foxy is a ton of work. Open R
We are delighted to share a new initiative – the Ubuntu Appliance portfolio. Together with NextCloud, Mosquitto, Plex, OpenHAB and AdGuard, we have created a new class of Ubuntu derivatives: specialised appliance images that do one thing beautifully. Ubuntu Appliances transform a Raspberry Pi or PC into a secure, self-updating solution, f
Is Ubuntu an enterprise Linux distribution? If you are asking, you are probably wondering if you can use Ubuntu anywhere else other than your workstation or development environment. Perhaps you are wondering whether you can implement Ubuntu in your enterprise, including production environments? If that is the case, I have good news for yo
With more than 1.5 million global customers – including Sainsburys and Michelin – OVHcloud is Europe’s largest cloud computing provider, and the third largest web hosting company in the world. It goes without saying that storage is mission critical for an organisation like OVHcloud, but finding a solution that was compatible with their ex
The state of being productive comes in various guises. Sometimes, you want to do more. Sometimes, you want less. It’s been a while since we toured the Snap Store, and we thought you would be interested in a fresh batch of cool, fun and useful applications that can help you perfect your daily digital activities.
Microsoft exposes attacks to Kubeflow deployments Microsoft publishes report detailing series of attacks against clusters running Kubeflow with the purpose of mining cryptocurrencies. To ensure that you are on the safe side, follow the steps below: 1. When deploying Kubeflow, make sure that its dashboard isn’t exposed to the internet: che
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