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Introduction So far all my blog posts about LXD have been assuming an Ubuntu host with LXD installed from packages, as a snap or from source. But LXD is perfectly happy to run on any Linux distribution which has the … Continue reading →

Are you interested in developing Qt on Ubuntu Core? Learning how to package Qt apps as snaps? And the solutions they bring to the world of Digital Signage? If so, join us for a webinar. You will learn the following: Introduction to Ubuntu and Qt in digital signage Why use Qt for digital signage Packaging

This is a guest post by Fabrice Etienne from DAQRI®, leading enterprise augmented reality company. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com DAQRI® are going to be on the Ubuntu booth at Mobile World Congress to showcase the DAQRI Smart Helmet®. The DAQRI Smart Helmet, powered by an Ubuntu A

Ever since the introduction of digital money, the world quickly came to realize how dire and expensive the consequences of centralized systems are. Not only are these systems incredibly expensive to maintain, they are also “single points of failures” which expose a large number of users to unexpected service interruptions, fraudulent acti

Introduction For those who haven’t heard of Kubernetes before, it’s defined by the upstream project as: Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical … Continue reading →

Hello snapcrafters! We are pleased to announce the release snapcraft 2.27: https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.27 Contributions This release has seen some contributions from outside of the snapcraft core team, so we want to give a shout out to these folks, here’s a team thank you for: Colin Watson John Lenton Kit Randel Loïc Mini

The telecom industry is not as buoyant as it was some years back. Telecom operators ‘ revenues are under pressure due to innovations from over the top players. Costs are spiralling out of control because of 4/5G deployments, fibre to the premise, social networking data explosions, 4K video streaming, IoT and more. Time to market

Sequel to initial $1million successful crowdfunding campaign follow hugely successful first round of crowdfunding for open-source, 5G and IoT capable SDR with app stores Second round will provide a market for round-one developers to sell their apps on the first open source mobile and IoT base station with app stores New revenues for telco

Fast forward to 6 minutes, 42 seconds to begin the demo. In this demo Marco Ceppi deploys a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on 10 nodes. If you’re interested in bare metal Kubernetes, we invite you to join us and other contributors in the sig-onprem community. Not sure how to get started? Join us in our

A few weeks ago I shared a side project about Building a DYI GPU cluster for k8s to play with Kubernetes with a proper ROI vs. AWS g2 instances. This was spectacularly interesting when AWS was lagging behind with old nVidia K20s cards (which are not supported anymore on the latest drivers). But with the

This is a guest post by Frank Karlitschek, Founder of the Nextcloud box. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com At the Mobile World Congress this February, Nextcloud will showcase a device built to to allow users to bring their their data back under their control in a very literal

Introduction When LXD 2.0 shipped with Ubuntu 16.04, LXD networking was pretty simple. You could either use that “lxdbr0” bridge that “lxd init” would have you configure, provide your own or just use an existing physical interface for your containers. … Continue reading →

The third annual IoT Developer Survey, hosted by Eclipse IoT has just been launched. In previous years it has provided interesting insights about how developers are building IoT solutions, for example – did you know that 73% of people use Linux to develop their IoT projects? – Canonical is pleased to support this initiative once

Our friends at Vision mobile have just released an infographic featuring their top contributing communities for the State of the Developer Nation Q1 2017 – and we’re featured! The infographic features partner descriptions, tools and technologies as featured in their previous survey. Check out their reports here that showcase facts and fig

Discover the simplest and easiest way to stand up and operate a Kubernetes cluster in AWS. Watch our webinar! The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes is a pure-upstream distribution that delivers you the latest version of Kubernetes with built-in community operational knowledge. In this on-demand webinar we cover: how to set up your own

openHAB is a completely open source smart home alternative to Apple Homekit and Samsung SmartThings. Consumers can mix and match hardware and services from different brands London, UK – February 9th, 2017: Canonical, openHAB Foundation and Azul Systems have launched the snap packaging of openHAB 2.0, a free open smart home platform that a