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conjure-up dev summary: you like LXD? we like LXD. Put your floaties on and step up to the Helm!

LXDWe’ve taken some preliminary steps in providing the user better feedback when wanting to deploy onto the localhost provider. If conjure-up isn’t able to talk to the same API endpoints Juju can then our probability of success is next to none.We do some fancy realtime UI updates so

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: August 25, 2017

GNOME Shell Didier has written a series of blog posts detailing how we’ve set up the Ubuntu GNOME Shell session in Artful to co-exist with the default GNOME Shell experience and still give us the flexibility we need to shape the experience as we would like. You can start at day one here.  We worked

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes: Development Summary- August 24

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

Security Team Weekly Summary: August 24, 2017

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: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com During the last week

From docs to Schema

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

I me mine: An UbuConLA 2017 Summit Summary

These are my notes about UbuconLA, a bit of social activities and thoughts on the talks related to the snappy ecosystem.Arriving I left late on thursday for a planned night arrival into Lima, Leo was going to be arriving around 2 hours earlier than me

LXD 2.17 has been released

The changes in this release include New features: Add support for specifying the ceph user (using the “ceph.user.name” property) Implement “instance types” as an easy way to specify limits (e.g. “lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 -t t2.micro”) Add a new “lxc query” command as a low level query tool for the LXD API (similar to curl but

Canonical expands enterprise Kubernetes

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


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Kernel Team Summary: August 23, 2017

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

MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 Released!

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

Week 33 of 2017 in snapcraft

Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 14 until August 20 of 2017. Development in master Last week, error handling in snapcraft took the spotlight, this is the list of what happened in master: docs: fix typo in plugin help (PR: #1496) errors: use function for exit code (PR:

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 22 Aug 2017

Hello Ubuntu Server! The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team

SnapRoute and Canonical create new switch stack for network operators

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

Cookie notification component

We’ve all seen the annoying cookie notification which website owners are legally obliged to include on their sites. We can’t avoid them, so let’s have some fun with them. Previously, for Canonical’s sites, the cookie notification was a shared CSS file and JavaScript file that we injected into the head of each site. This resulted in

Git Ubuntu: More on the imported repositories

This is the third post in our series on our git workflow tooling in Ubuntu. There is an index of all our planned posts in the first post. As mentioned there, it is important to keep in mind that the tooling and implementation are still highly experimental. Nish introduced our imported repositories using the git ubuntu clone wrapper, as we


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