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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
4 September 2017

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 1

Internet of Things Article

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services Ever since snaps were introduced, a crucial part of their feature set has been the ability to release a snap on a particular “channel” indicating how stable or production-ready it is. The well-known channel names stable, candidate, beta and edge indicate a snap’s stabil ...


Canonical
30 August 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: August 31, 2017

Cloud and server Article

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: [email protected] During the last week ...


Canonical
30 August 2017

Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary – August 30, 2017

Cloud and server Article

This newsletter is here to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the Foundations team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-devel channel on freenode. Highlights We encourage flavor teams to ...


Canonical
30 August 2017

Kernel Team Summary: August 30, 2017

Cloud and server Article

August 22 through August 28 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Beta 1 – Aug 31 (~1-2 days away) Final Beta – Sept 28 (~4 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~5 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~6 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.04 – Oct 19 (~7 weeks away) We intend ...


Canonical
29 August 2017

Testing Unsupported Release Upgrades

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Brian Murray’s blog Earlier I wrote about how it is possible to upgrade, with the upgrade prompt set to normal, from Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) to Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty) and that this is a supported upgrade path. There is an unsupported method to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to Artful Aardvark, which ...


Canonical
24 August 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes: Development Summary- August 24

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Tim Van Steenburgh’s blog August 18th concluded our most recent development sprint on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). Here are some highlights: CI failures fixed. We spent some time fixing a handful of CI failures that had crept in recently. We’re back to green now and looking good for a ...


Canonical
24 August 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: August 24, 2017

Cloud and server Article

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: [email protected] During the last week ...


Canonical
24 August 2017

From docs to Schema

Cloud and server Article

This article was originally featured on Chad Smith’s blog Is there an echo in here? When looking through cloud-config modules it seemed there was a lot of boilerplate documentation and logic in each module to document and validate accepted configuration keys for the module. Houston, we have a problem Problem 1: Doc rot Cloud-init has ...


Canonical
23 August 2017

Canonical expands enterprise Kubernetes

Canonical announcements News

Canonical supports enterprise Kubernetes on cloud and on-premises Two turnkey consulting packages for rapid deployment Support for Galactic Fog serverless, Rancher container management and Weave Cloud Reference architectures for Kubernetes operations on cloud or bare-metal LONDON, U.K, Aug 23rd, 2017, Canonical today announced two consult ...


Canonical
23 August 2017

Kernel Team Summary: August 23, 2017

Cloud and server Article

Development (Artful / 17.10) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The artful kernel is now based on Linux 4.12. The Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017. The 4.12 kernel is available in the archive for Artful 17.10. It is based on upstream v4.12.8. The Artful staging ...


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22 August 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 Released!

Cloud and server Article

Hello MAASters!I’m happy to annouce that MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 has now been released and it is currently available in Ubuntu Artful, PPA for Xenial and as a snap.PPA AvailabilityFor those running Ubuntu Xenial and would like to use Alpha 1, please use the following PPA:Snap AvailabilityFor those running from the snap, or would like to test t ...


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22 August 2017

SnapRoute and Canonical create new switch stack for network operators

Canonical announcements News

Redefining the economics of data center networking through disaggregation of hardware, operating system, and software components. SnapRoute and Canonical announced today an integrated network stack, creating a rock solid software foundation for white-box and brite-box switch deployments in large environments. FlexSwitch from SnapRoute is ...