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Simplifying local development: The ./run executable

Canonical’s webteam manage over 18 websites as well as many supporting projects and frameworks. These projects are built with any combination of Python, Ruby,...

Quick and easy network configuration with Netplan

Earlier this week I uploaded netplan 0.21 in artful, with SRUs in progress for the stable releases. There are still lots of features coming up, but it’s also...

User acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis CI

Travis CI offers a great continuous integrationservice for the projects hosted in GitHub. With it you can run tests, deliverartifacts and deploy services on...

Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges

I work at Canonical, on the desktop team. The team works on Ubuntu Desktop, publishing a release every six months containing the fruits of our efforts — or at...

Designing build.snapcraft.io

Many open-source software developers use GitHub. Let’s make it as easy as possible for them to build and release their code automatically.

AZLOGICA use Ubuntu Core for customised IoT agricultural solutions

Shrimps are now considered as the most lucrative seafood product with demand growing from consumers due to their high nutritional value. This is reflected in...

How Ubuntu helped InnovaPOS revolutionise the vending machine industry

The smart vending machines market is on the rise with estimates of 2.7 million to be sold by 2020 with Asia Pacific predicted to be the fastest growing region...

June’s reading list

Here are the best links shared by the design team in June 2017: How I Create Talks Technical Speaker Starter Kit 4 Things I Know About Pattern Libraries The...


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Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 30 Jun 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....

Webinar: How to upgrade your OpenStack cloud easily, without downtime

Live webinar It has become commonplace to see some OpenStack users choose to remain on old unsupported versions of OpenStack, forgoing new features and...

Stuck Stacks, the 7 year itch and the DevOps dilemma

  7 years in, where do we go from here? It is 7 years since OpenStack came into being. 7 short years comprised of long days and late nights bringing it all...

Build, test, and publish snap packages using snapcraft

This is a guest post by Ricardo Feliciano, Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary – June 27, 2017

Introduction This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team.  There will also be highlights provided for any interesting...

Canonical supports Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3

London UK, 27th June 2017: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announces that its IoT OS, Ubuntu Core, is available on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module...

Conjure-up dev summary: Week 25

With conjure-up 2.2.2 out the door we bring a whole host of improvements!sudo snap install conjure-up --classic Improved LocalhostWe recently switched over...

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 23, 2017

GNOME We’ve migrated ubuntu-session to a new unity-session package. This means that the default session is GNOME Shell and people can install Unity 7 and its...


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