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Mike Salvatore
27 August 2020

Spotting /tmp related vulnerabilities with TmpWatcher

Ubuntu Article

Did you know that misuse of the /tmp directory is one of the most common security flaws? If you search mitre for the keyword “tmp”, you’ll find a plethora of vulnerabilities (529 at the time of this writing). Because /tmp is a world-writable directory, applications need to be very careful about how they create and ...


Igor Ljubuncic
27 August 2020

Snapcraft corner: Staying on track

Desktop Article

Snapcraft channels and, consequently, tracks are an important, highly useful element of the snap ecosystem. Tracks enable snap developers to publish multiple supported releases of their application under the same snap name. All snaps must have a default track – called latest, but there can be many others, giving both developers flexibilit ...


Alex Chalkias
27 August 2020

Kubernetes vs Docker

Cloud and server Kubernetes

In an era where container technologies have taken the industry by storm, one of the most common online searches on the topic of containers is ‘Kubernetes vs Docker’. The relevance and accuracy of this comparison is questionable, as it is not really comparing apples to apples. In this blog post, we will attempt to clarify ...


cmoullec
25 August 2020

Travel, CLIs, and sticky notes: Lilyana’s life as a Canonical UX designer

People and culture Article

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? This blog series is all about getting to know the different employees that make up our company. Lilyana Videnova is a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer who has worked on a wide range of Canonical products. We spoke with Lilyana to find ...


Canonical
25 August 2020

Kubernetes 1.19 available from Canonical

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical today announced full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.19 spanning from public cloud to the edge, covering Charmed Kubernetes, MicroK8s and kubeadm.  “As with all releases, Canonical is committed to fast following so that users benefit from the latest features, lifecycle operations and enterprise support in line with the upstr ...


Rui Vasconcelos
24 August 2020

Kubeflow 1.1 is out!

Ubuntu Article

New release, increased capabilities. After 6 months since the release of 1.0, Kubeflow releases a new version with increased capabilities. This new version has focused on improving ML Workflow Productivity, Isolation and Security, and GitOps. Here is a list of the enhanced features: Fairing and Kale (Kubeflow Automated pipeLines Engine) f ...


haydenb
20 August 2020

Ubuntu on WSL 2 Backported to Windows 10 1903 and 1909, Extending Reach

Desktop Article

Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 in the Windows 10 May 2020 update, also known as version 2004. Today Microsoft announced an update for Windows 10 which brings WSL 2 back to the Windows 10 May 2019 and November 2019 updates, also known as versions 1903 and 1909, respectively. Ubuntu ...


Igor Ljubuncic
20 August 2020

Tour of the snap developer account in the Snap Store

Desktop Article

Sometimes, you may wonder, what’s on the other side of the curtain? If you’re a developer contemplating snaps, you surely want to know the range of tools and options available in the developer account dashboard in the Snap Store. But some of the features may not necessarily be immediately visible or relevant until you’ve uploaded ...


Anthony Dillon
20 August 2020

Design and Web team summary – 20th August 2020

Design Design

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 Kit Randel My name is Kit and I live at the bottom of the earth in Dunedin, New Zealand where I manage the MAAS frontend, engineering team. Currently, we’re working ...


Rhys Davies
18 August 2020

Set up the AdGuard Home Ubuntu Appliance

Internet of Things Article

Block ads and trackers, and regain full control of your network. The AdGuard Home Ubuntu Appliance is an easy way for anyone to shield their WiFi network, and all the devices in their home from hackers and prying eyes online. In this post, we discuss what AdGuard Home is, some of the benefits and features ...


Kyle Fazzari
17 August 2020

How to build a snap using ROS 2 Foxy

Robotics Article

The snapcraft CLI (the tool used to create snaps) has long had support for building snaps that use both ROS 1 and ROS 2. ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy is the latest ROS 2 LTS, which runs on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). The snapcraft CLI recently gained experimental support for building Foxy snaps, so I wanted ...