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29 June 2021

Kubernetes & Cloud Native report 2021 by Canonical

Article Canonical announcements

Industry global survey from Canonical: 85% of enterprises have yet to cross the chasm to full Kubernetes and Cloud Native adoption.Data from 1,200 respondents and insights from seven industry experts reveal rapid growth, some growing pains Read full report London, UK, June 29, 2021 – Despite high adoption rates of cloud...

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29 June 2021

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23 June 2021

Canonical enables Ubuntu on SiFive’s HiFive RISC-V boards

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With Canonical announcing Ubuntu support for so much new hardware, the announcement of Ubuntu ported to a new architecture can go unnoticed. But today, we have a big one. Working with the leading RISC-V core IP designer and development board manufacturer, SiFive, we are proud to announce the first Ubuntu release for...

Canonical
23 June 2021

Canonical launches Blender LTS support

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SMEs and studios can put the world’s most popular 3D creation software into production with Canonical enterprise-grade support.

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23 June 2021

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14 June 2021

Introducing Ubuntu Pro for Google Cloud

Article Canonical announcements

June 14th, 2021: Canonical and Google Cloud today announce Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud, a new Ubuntu offering available to all Google Cloud users. Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud allows instant access to security patching covering thousands of open source applications for up to 10 years and critical compliance features...

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14 June 2021

Canonical
8 June 2021

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology taps Canonical for cloud computing overhaul

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New OpenStack and Kubernetes deployments improve computing performance for researchers, ease management pains for IT staff SAUDI ARABIA, June 8, 2021 — Canonical, the publisher ofUbuntu, announced today that it is working with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a postgraduate university in...

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8 June 2021

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28 May 2021

How to run ECS Anywhere workloads using Ubuntu on any infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

Using Ubuntu for your ECS clusters on-prem or elsewhere will allow you to run your ECS Anywhere workloads with optimal performance everywhere you need it.

Canonical
28 May 2021

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25 May 2021

Ubuntu supports Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ampere A1 Compute

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Together with Oracle, Canonical announces an optimised Ubuntu image for the launch of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Ampere A1 Compute.

Canonical
25 May 2021

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3 May 2021

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS transitions to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM)

Article Cloud and server

This article was updated in September 2021 to reflect the new lifecycle of 16.04. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ transitions into the extended security maintenance (ESM) support phase at the end of April 2021 from its standard, five-year maintenance window for Ubuntu long term support (LTS) releases. Xenial Xerus is...

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3 May 2021

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27 April 2021

Easily deploy and manage Mattermost on Kubernetes with the new Juju charmed operator

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Introducing the Juju Charms Operator for Mattermost seamless application upgrades and supported features on Linux and Windows. We’re excited to announce our partnership with Canonical to build a Mattermost Operatorusing the Juju Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM), making it easy to install, integrate and upgrade...

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27 April 2021

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22 April 2021

Ubuntu 21.04 is here

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Ubuntu 21.04 is here, with native Microsoft Active Directory integration, performance optimization and joint support for Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu.

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22 April 2021

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15 April 2021

(Re)introducing the Community Team

Article Ubuntu

The Ubuntu community is, and always will be, a major part of the Ubuntu project. It is one of the biggest reasons all of this (gestures around) even exists. Over the past month or so, the beginnings of a new Community team has been taking shape inside Canonical with the specific purpose of serving the

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15 April 2021

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8 April 2021

Kubernetes 1.21 available from Canonical

Article Cloud and server

Today, Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.21, from cloud to edge. Canonical Kubernetes support covers MicroK8s, Charmed Kubernetes and kubeadm. Starting with 1.21, moving forward Canonical commits to supporting N-2 releases as well as providing extended security maintenance (ESM) and patching...

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8 April 2021

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6 April 2021

Hardened ROS with 10 year security from Open Robotics and Canonical

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Canonical ROS ESM customers now can access a long-term supported ROS and Ubuntu environment by the Ubuntu and ROS experts. Learn more about ROS ESM. 6 April 2021: Canonical and Open Robotics announced today a partnership for Robot Operating System (ROS) Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and enterprise support, as part...

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6 April 2021

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26 March 2021

Livepatch 2021-03-24 incident investigation report

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Description A defective livepatch for kernel 4.4 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) was not caught in internal testing processes because the defect was a race condition, triggered by workload-specific behaviour, under load. The livepatch would cause the madvise system call to block indefinitely, and thus cause lockup to the...

Canonical
26 March 2021