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Optimise your ROS snap – Part 3

Welcome to Part 3 of our “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 2. This third part is going to present safe optimisations consisting of removing duplicates and unnecessary files. We will present three different methods as well as their cumulative benefits for the performance of ROS snaps. When snaps are

Cloud storage at the edge with MicroCeph

Over the years, our enterprise data centre users have told us how much they love the end to end experience of an application-centric solution like Juju to manage their entire infrastructure.  Juju is a software operator framework that abstracts the specifics of operating complex software and makes it simple and straightforward to deploy,

Livepatch has a new 13-month sliding support window – What does it mean for you?

The Livepatch tool is a valuable solution for resolving critical and high-security kernel CVEs without requiring an immediate system reboot. However, it is not a substitute for regular maintenance windows and reboots, as some CVEs still require a system reboot. Additionally, Livepatch only covers security-related kernel updates, not non-s

Canonical Livepatch gets even better – Now supporting Hardware Enablement Kernels

Livepatch allows Ubuntu users to fix critical and high kernel vulnerabilities at runtime, which reduces the need for unplanned reboots. Until now, Livepatch has only been available for Long-Term Release (LTS) kernels, but starting with the release of Ubuntu’s interim release of 23.04 Lunar Lobster in April 2023, it will also be available

Phoenix Systems sets a new standard for secure cloud services with Canonical and IBM

Phoenix Systems, a Swiss company, partnered with IBM and Canonical to create a hyper-secure OpenStack cloud focused on data sovereignty and data protection. Switzerland is a country where data must be hosted within its borders, and for many workloads, public clouds are not an option. Phoenix Systems stepped in to fill this niche by buildi

Canonical Kubernetes 1.27 announcement

Canonical Kubernetes 1.27 GA. Charm Kubernetes and MicroK8s

Charmed Kubeflow is now available on AWS Marketplace

Run an MLOps toolkit within a few clicks on a major public cloud Canonical is proud to announce that Charmed Kubeflow is now available as a software appliance on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace. With the appliance, users can now launch and manage their machine learning workloads hassle-free using Charmed Kubeflow on AWS. This

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of the “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 1 before reading this blog post. This second part is going to present initial optimisations already used in the Gazebo snap. We will present the benefit that they could bring to our ROS snaps as well as the


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Dell and Canonical at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has enjoyed a partnership with Dell Technologies for over a decade. Together, they have collaborated to develop a series of cutting-edge reference architectures applicable to various industries, providing customers with unparalleled experiences and value. This year at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe (

Open source MLOps at Kubecon with Canonical

Date: 17-21 April 2023 Location: Amsterdam  Booth: P15 In just a few weeks, Kubecon will be held at RAI Convention Center, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After a bunch of news from the industry around AI projects, such as GPT4 or MidJourney4, Canonical is also ready to bring open source into the landscape. Among the attendees,

이제는 2023년 5월 31일에 종료되는 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 표준 지원에 대비할 때

Ubuntu 릴리즈 중 가장 인기가 많은 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ‘Bionic Beaver’는 2023년 5월 31일에 장기 지원(LTS) 릴리즈에 대한 5년간의 표준 유지보수 기간이 종료됩니다. Ubuntu LTS 릴리즈란 무엇인가요? Ubuntu LTS 릴리즈는 개발 및 프로덕션을 위한 안정적인 기업 플랫폼을 ‘Main’ 리포지토리에 대한 5년간의 표준 보안 유지관리 및 다음 LTS 릴리즈로의 인플레이스 업그레이드와 함께 제공합니다. 조치하는 것이 중요합니다

Four Challenges for ML data pipeline

Data pipelines are the backbone of Machine Learning projects. They are responsible for collecting, storing, and processing the data that is used to train and deploy machine learning models. Without a data pipeline, it would be very difficult to manage the large amounts of data that are required for machine learning projects. For this long

Build the foundation for your zero trust strategy with Ubuntu confidential computing

Why do we want to eliminate trust? Isn’t trust a good thing that we should foster and grow? And shouldn’t computing platforms trust their end-users, and vice versa? The short answer is no. And I would argue that the very goal of system security has always been to reduce trust.  For instance, because you do

Canonical presence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, will have a strong presence at this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe as a platinum sponsor. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship will once again bring together adopters and technologists from leading open-source and cloud-native communities worldwide to meet in Amsterdam, Netherlands,

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 1

Do you want to optimise the performance of your ROS snap? We reduced the size of the installed Gazebo snap by 95%! This is how you can do it for your snap. Welcome to Part 1 of the “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. This series of 6 blogs will show the tools and methodologies

Expanding the Spice Rack

The Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster release will feature two new members of the Ubuntu flavour family – Edubuntu and Ubuntu Cinnamon.


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