Laipni lūgti Latvijā! Welcome to Latvia! After the success of last year’s Ubuntu Summit in Prague, the organizers at Canonical set a goal to make this year’s Summit bigger, better and bolder. With this goal in mind, we are all extremely excited to announce that this year’s Ubuntu Summit will be hosted in the beautiful city of Riga, Latvia! A bird’s eye view of old town RigaThe Ubuntu Summit Experience The Ubuntu Summit is more than just a conference; it’s an annual celebration of the most compelling and groundbreaking innovations from the open source ecosystem. Produced and hosted by Canonica ..read more

In accordance with the information shared in our latest blog post, it is important to note that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, codenamed ‘Bionic Beaver,’ is approaching the end of its standard five-year maintenance period on 31 May 2023. Consequently, unless you hold an Ubuntu Pro subscription, updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS servers will cease to be available. By subscribing to Ubuntu Pro, you can ensure that your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS deployment remains fully supported until 2028. This extended support period provides you with continued assistance and maintenance for your workloads running on Google Compute Engi ..read more

Timely patching with Ubuntu Pro for fully secured MLOps Generative AI projects like ChatGPT have motivated enterprises to rethink their AI strategy and make it a priority. In a report published by PwC, 72% of respondents said they were confident in the ROI of artificial intelligence. More than half of respondents also state that their AI projects are compliant with applicable regulations (57%) and protect systems from cyber attacks, threats or manipulations (55%). Production-grade AI initiatives are not an easy task. Organisations need to go through different stages to prepare data, develop th ..read more

As we announced at Cephalocon 2023 in Amsterdam, Canonical has started to make container images for Ceph available.  We received lots of questions at the booth about what it means to the average Ceph user who has or wants to deploy Ceph on Ubuntu.   In this blog post, we will cover the benefits to users who are running containerised Ceph on Ubuntu, and specifically how these images can provide an improved security posture. What is an OCI? An OCI image (Open Container Initiative) is a standardised software container that can be used on a variety of compliant host environments.&n ..read more

The Open Source Community Africa Festival (OSCAFEST) is a prestigious yearly conference that garners a significant turnout of students, developers, designers, and corporate entities. It encompasses an array of talks, workshops, and initiatives aimed at promoting the growth of open source culture, contribution, development, community, etc., across the continent. This year’s event will take place in the incredible city of Lagos, Nigeria on June 15-17th. Canonical is a proud sponsor of OSCAfest and will be providing several workshops this year: Andreea Munteanu, Product Manager on the MLOps tea ..read more

From 9 to 12 May this year, people from 165 countries gathered virtually for the Women in Tech Global Conference. The conference is the flagship event of the WomenTech Network, a community for women in tech worldwide. Canonical was a gold event sponsor, and several team members participated as keynote speakers, networking hosts and attendees. When looking at the agenda in the weeks leading up to the conference, the number of speakers and sessions listed already hinted at the appetite for networking with a community of women, underrepresented groups and their allies in tech, science and enginee ..read more

Photo by Kenny Eliason, from Unsplash. In 2020 the pandemic caused significant shifts in the nature of education. With the necessity to educate and collaborate remotely, the need for low cost, portable hardware that was accessible to every student became a priority. During this period, ChromeOS made significant gains in the K-12 market with its range of low-cost Chromebooks tied directly to the Google ecosystem. However, in 2023 the pace of Chromebook adoption appears to have slowed and its range of initially cost-effective devices are now reaching end of life without support for replacement ..read more

Canonical will participate in AWS Summit Washington, DC 2023 for the second time to discuss the most cutting-edge cloud solutions for the Public Sector, such as security and compliance, AI/ML solutions and improved functionality.  Register for AWS Summit 2023 AWS Summit 2022 Last year, we discussed security and compliance and how easy it is to achieve FIPS, DISA STIG and CIS compliance in the cloud with our out-of-the-box Ubuntu Pro FIPS solutions and automation tools. With Ubuntu Pro we deliver seamless compliance and confidence in your cloud infrastructure’s stability and security. With ..read more

The Docker project was initiated by dotCloud, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company that created Docker to run their internal infrastructure. Slowly, Docker became more successful than any of their other products, so dotCloud rebranded as Docker Inc. Docker provides easy-to-use tooling and grew into an entire ecosystem for container management. Many developers have learned to use it as part of their toolkit for packaging and distributing applications to the cloud, or for development and testing stages more broadly.  Snaps were introduced by Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, as a way to ..read more

OpenStack is no doubt a wonderful and successful piece of software. It allows you to create your own cloud infrastructure, and thanks to its open-source nature, it’s free to use for everyone. But as with many giant software projects, all that power comes with a challenge: it is reasonably complex to install and configure. A number of OpenStack distributions do exist that intend to make engineers’ life a lot easier, but those also tend to be more complex than a non-experienced user would like them to be. To solve this problem once and for all, Canonical created a simplified and easy-to-install ..read more