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Sohini Bianka Roy
6 July 2020

Canonical Developer Advocate Named Microsoft MVP

Desktop Article

We would like to congratulate Hayden Barnes, a Developer Advocate at Canonical for Ubuntu on WSL, who was awarded MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft for 2020-2021 for his contributions to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) community. The Microsoft MVP Award is awarded annually by Microsoft to technology experts who passionat ...


Jeremie Deray
3 July 2020

Feeling at home in a LXD container

Robotics Article

In this post, we will see how we can containerize our home in LXD simply managing our personal configuration files – a.k.a. dotfiles. Yeah dotfiles, named after their common ~/.my_config form, you know, all of those small configuration files lying across our $HOME. In other words, how one can change the house while keeping the ...


Alan Griffiths
3 July 2020

A snap confined shell based on Mir: Mircade

Internet of Things Article

Mircade: An example snap confined user shell There are various scenarios and reasons for packaging a Snap confined shell and a selection of applications together in a confined environment. You might have applications that work well together for a particular task; or, you may want to offer a number of alternative applications and have them ...


Igor Ljubuncic
2 July 2020

A blast from the past – Shutter

Desktop Article

The wheel of software turns, and apps come and go. But the end of development does not always mean the end of usefulness. Sometimes, programs stubbornly remain around, offering a complete experience that can withstand the test of time. Several weeks ago, we talked about how you can preserve old applications with snaps. Today, we ...


Rui Vasconcelos
2 July 2020

Building Kubeflow pipelines: Data science workflows on Kubernetes – Part 2

AI Article

This blog series is part of the joint collaboration between Canonical and Manceps. Visit our AI consulting and delivery services page to know more. Introduction Kubeflow Pipelines are a great way to build portable, scalable machine learning workflows. It is a part of the Kubeflow project that aims to reduce the complexity and time involv ...


Alex Chalkias
2 July 2020

Encryption at rest with Ceph

Ceph Article

Do you have a big data center? Do you have terabytes of confidential data stored in that data center? Are you worried that your data might be exposed to malicious attacks? One of the most prominent security features of storage solutions is encryption at rest. This blog will explain this in more detail and how ...


Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
29 June 2020

Data centre automation for HPC

Cloud and server Webinar

Friction points in HPC DevOps Many High Performance Computing (HPC) setups are still handcrafted configurations where tuning changes can take days or weeks. This is because the more you tune and optimise something, the more bespoke and unique it is, and the more unique something is, the lower the chances that things will just work ...


sidfaber
29 June 2020

Installing ROS in LXD Containers

Cloud and server Article

It’s the season for updates. The last few weeks have ushered in ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2 Foxy, both of which target the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa. As always, new releases come with trepidation: how can I install new software and test compatibility, yet keep my own environment stable until I know ...


robgibbon
29 June 2020

What is Apache Kafka?

Cloud and server Article

Discover Charmed Kafka Everyone hates waiting in a queue. On the other hand, when you’re routing an absolute storm of event data around a cloud environment, message queues are your best friend. Enter Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is a free, open source event streaming platform that enables you to create queues for temporary buffering of ...


Alan Pope
25 June 2020

Split Personality Snaps

Internet of Things Article

Broadly speaking, most snaps in the Snap Store fall into one of two categories, desktop applications and server daemons. The graphical applications such as Chromium and Spotify use desktop files, which ensure they can be opened on demand by any user via a menu or launcher. The server applications such as NextCloud and AdGuard-Home typical ...


Rui Vasconcelos
25 June 2020

Weekend watch list

Ubuntu Article

Kubeflow 101 – Hyperparameter tuning with Katib The Kubeflow 101 series of short videos is a great way to quickly get up to speed on Kubeflow concepts. This week, Stephanie Wong guides us through Hyperparameters and how you can use Katib to achieve the Kubeflow with Amazon Sagemaker Shashank Prasanna, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS ...