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General availability of Kubernetes 1.6 on Ubuntu

We are proud to release the latest Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) supporting Kubernetes version 1.6.1! Kubernetes 1.6 is a major milestone and it...

A new vantage point

I joined Canonical as COO in 2004, excited by the vision of Ubuntu and the possibilities that could unfold from the software, the collaboration with the open...

Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 and 26

As part as our mission to get snaps running everywhere, we are pleased to announce that support for snaps has now officially landed in Fedora, starting with...

FAQs: Ensuring the ongoing security compliance of Ubuntu

Canonical recently announced that the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017. Following the end-of-life of Ubuntu...

RobotCheers uses Ubuntu to create hospitality robots

Meet Spiro. Spiro greets you after a long day of travel, answers questions related to your stay and can give you a guided tour – in essence, all that a hotel...

The smartest industry 4.0 crane

Lots of big name industrial players are launching IoT platforms and are hopeful that their big data analytics, open APIs, and other features will catapult...

Fresh Snaps from March 2017

It’s that time of the month! We’ve put together a selection of top ten snaps written in March ranging from snapping an electron app through to a simple screen...

From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core

Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct. For latest updated documentation about robotics in Canonical...


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Growing Ubuntu for cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence

This is a post by Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu and Canonical We are wrapping up an excellent quarter and an excellent year for the company, with...

How Bosch Rexroth is innovating the PLC market

Last year I introduced a new concept called App Logic Controller or ALC. You basically run an app store on a PLC type of device and as such any industrial...

Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel

Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most...

Scalable, secure access to data with DBaaS on IBM LinuxONE

Imagine a world where developers can quickly stand-up new applications and database instances – without having to worry about limits to database growth or...

Nexiona collaborates with Canonical and Dell to create MIIMETIQ Edge

There is a perception that IoT projects are complex, expensive and therefore limited to larger companies that have the means to manage them. However, the...

What we learned at our first official GV design sprint

Last month the web team ran its first design sprint as outlined in The Sprint Book, by Google Ventures’ Jake Knapp. Some of us had read the book recently and...

The MirAL story

This is a guest post by Alan Griffiths, Software Developer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

Cloud Chatter: March 2017

Our March edition is packed with exciting content. We begin with our recent announcement of Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance providing ongoing...


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