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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 January 2021

Juju vs Infrastructure as Code Tools

Cloud and server Article

Summary Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, like Terraform, CloudFormation and Pulumi, ensure easily reproducible infrastructure setups. Juju focuses on the lifecycle and relations of applications. Juju and IaC tools mostly operate on different layers of abstraction. Use Juju to manage any application, from simple web application/database ...


Canonical
7 December 2020

How to switch the Docker container runtime to containerd with Charmed Kubernetes

Ubuntu Article

This article describes how easy it is for users of Charmed Kubernetes to switch from the Docker container runtime to containerd. You may have heard that Kubernetes is deprecating Docker as a container runtime after v1.20. Docker as an underlying runtime is being deprecated in favor of runtimes that use the Container Runtime Interface(CRI) ...


Canonical
1 December 2020

Install Amazon EKS Distro anywhere

Canonical announcements Article

One install, one cluster, snap! Today, we’re excited to announce that EKS is available outside of AWS, on any Ubuntu system, with the EKS snap. This announcement builds on the existing collaboration between Amazon and Canonical to ensure the quality, security, and usability of Ubuntu-based EKS clusters on AWS. “Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) b ...


Canonical
1 December 2020

Canonical’s LTS Docker Image Portfolio is now available on Amazon ECR Public

Ubuntu Article

Today, Canonical announced the availability of its curated set of secure container application images on Amazon ECR Public, complementing the current offering. Multiple registries, one product Developers now also have access to the LTS Docker Image Portfolio from the Amazon ECR Public registry. Free and commercial versions of the hardened ...


Canonical
24 November 2020

Canonical publishes LTS Docker Image Portfolio on Docker Hub

Canonical announcements Article

Ten year maintenance commitment on app images provides secure cloud software supply chain November 24th 2020: Canonical has published the LTS Docker Image Portfolio, a curated set of secure container application images, on Docker Hub. The LTS Docker Image Portfolio comes with up to ten years Extended Security Maintenance by Canonical. “LT ...


Canonical
13 November 2020

Canonical’s Open Operator Collection extends Kubernetes operators to traditional Linux and Windows applications

Cloud and server Article

13th November 2020: Canonical’s Open Operator Collection, the largest collection of application operators, now supports both cloud-native and traditional applications on Windows and Linux. The collection is hosted at Charmhub.io and follows the Open Operator Manifesto. Next-generation operations unify CAAS and IAAS “The operator pattern s ...


Canonical
10 November 2020

Malawi’s TNM selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to help lead virtualisation charge

Canonical announcements Article

10 November 2020 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack, an open source private cloud solution that allows businesses to control large pools of computer, storage and networking in a datacentre, has been selected by Telekom Networks Malawi Plc (TNM), to modernise and virtualise its entire telecommu ...


Canonical
5 November 2020

MTS selects OpenStack and Canonical for next-generation cloud infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

5th November, 2020: MOSCOW, Russia – MTS (NYSE:MBT; MOEX:MTSS), Russia’s largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services, announces the selection of Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to power the company’s next-generation cloud infrastructure. MTS plans to leverage Charmed OpenStack’s advanced lifecycle management ...


Canonical
2 November 2020

How Kubernetes is transforming the industrial edge

Internet of Things Article

According to leading independent researchers teknowlogy | PAC, open source platforms – and Kubernetes in particular – are central to the future of digital factories.  The PAC RADAR report offers a detailed market analysis of industrial digitalisation trends, and it predicts that Kubernetes-based platforms that bring together edge and clou ...


Canonical
22 October 2020

Ubuntu 20.10 on Raspberry Pi delivers the full Linux desktop and micro clouds

Cloud and server Article

22nd October 2020: Canonical today released Ubuntu 20.10 with optimised Raspberry Pi images for desktop in support of learners, inventors, educators and entrepreneurs, bringing the world’s most open platform to the world’s most accessible hardware. “In this release, we celebrate the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s commitment to put open computi ...


Canonical
21 October 2020

Canonical & Ubuntu Join AfricaCom Virtual 2020

Ubuntu Article

This year, AfricaCom becomes a virtual event as part of the new Virtual Africa Tech Festival – the largest and most influential tech and telecoms event on the continent. Canonical and Ubuntu will be joining as a Lead Stream Sponsor, introducing the  Digital Infrastructure Investment stream of sessions and exhibits with a speaker session b ...


Canonical
21 October 2020

Automating Server Provisioning in phoenixNap’s Bare Metal Cloud with MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service)

Ubuntu Article

As part of the effort to build a flexible, cloud-native ready infrastructure, phoenixNAP collaborated with Canonical on enabling nearly instant OS installation. Canonical’s MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service) solution allows for automated OS installation on phoenixNAP’s Bare Metal Cloud, making it possible to set up a server in less than two minute ...