Topic: canonical
Canonical unveils support for real-time compute in Ubuntu
Canonical today unveiled support for real-time compute in Ubuntu in the release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. According to the company, real-time Ubuntu provides deterministic responses to external events, which cuts down on response times. This makes it ideal for use cases where there are low-latency requirements, like automotive, telecommunications, and aerospace and defense. “The real-time … continue reading
Canonical Kubernetes 1.26 is now available
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that Canonical Kubernetes 1.26 is now generally available for both distributions, Charmed Kubernetes and MicroK8s. This release comes following the company’s release of upstream Kubernetes on December 8th. With this release, users gain access to MicroK8s bootstrap and control plane providers for Cluster API. According to the company, … continue reading
Canonical announces new Ubuntu images for Intel IoT platforms
Canonical announced the availability of new enterprise-grade Ubuntu images available for both Desktop and Server Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS and are designed for next-generation Intel platforms. As part of the new release, Intel and Canonical will jointly provide enterprise-class hardware and software support, ensuring product longevity. The production-ready Ubuntu releases are specially designed … continue reading
Canonical releases Ubuntu image for Google Cloud’s Tau T2A VMs
Google Cloud and Canonical, the company that releases Ubuntu, have announced that they have released a new Ubuntu image to be used for the preview of Google Cloud’s Tau T2A virtual machines (VMs). Tau T2A is Google Cloud’s VM for running on Arm architectures. “With the launch of T2A VMs on Google Cloud and corresponding … continue reading
Canonical Ubuntu Core 22 now available
Today, the software company Canonical announced that the fully containerized Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant, Ubuntu Core 22, is now generally available. This release is optimized for IoT edge devices and, combined with Canonical’s technology offer, provides Ubuntu’s comprehensive operating system (OS) and services to a range of embedded and IoT devices. Ubuntu Core 22 works … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: MicroK8s
MicroK8s allows for low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes for devs, cloud, clusters, workstations, edge and IoT. It is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) certified upstream Kubernetes deployment that runs entirely on your workstation or edge device. The project automatically chooses the best nodes for the Kubernetes datastore, and when a cluster database is lost, another … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: IBM storage portfolio updates, Red Hat Collaboratory expansion, and more
IBM has announced new updates to its storage portfolio. It announced an intention to release a container-native software defined storage solution called IBM Spectrum Fusion, which is expected later this year. The company also updated its IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) solutions, including a redesigned ESS 5000 and the new ESS 320. “It’s clear that … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: MAAS
This week’s highlighted open-source project of the week is MAAS, which stands for metal-as-a-service. Maintained by Canonical, MAAS allows companies to build their own data center from bare metal servers. Administrators can do self-service, remote installation of Windows, CentOS, ESXi, and Ubuntu on real servers. MAAS enables users to discover, commission, deploy, and dynamically reconfigure … continue reading
Canonical’s MicroK8s now support high availability clustering
Canonical has announced MicroK8s now supports autonomous high availability (HA) clustering. This gives production workloads in cloud and server deployments more resilience. According to Canonical, high availability is achieved once three or more nodes are clusters and the data store migrates automatically between nodes. Canonical hopes that the increased resilience of HA MicroK8s will benefit … continue reading
Canonical introduces Anbox Cloud for delivering mobile applications at scale
Canonical is working to make it easier for companies to distribute applications from the cloud with the release of a new platform called Anbox Cloud. Anbox Cloud can be used to containerize workloads by using Android as a guest operating system. According to Canonical, this platform will allow organizations to provide “mobile applications at scale, … continue reading
Canonical introduces high-availability clustering for MicroK8s
Canonical has announced that it will now provide high-availability clustering in MicroK8s. It also announced the integration of enterprise SQL databases in Charmed Kubernetes. “The rapid rise of enterprise and edge Kubernetes creates a challenge for corporate IT, with thousands of edge nodes running Kubernetes, and hundreds of cloud Kubernetes clusters,” said Stephan Fabel, director … continue reading
Ubuntu 19.10 released with Kubernetes at the edge and multi-cloud infrastructure
The latest version of the open-source Linux distribution Ubuntu is now available. Version 19.10 comes with a strong focus on Kubernetes and the edge. Canonical has added strict confinement to MicroK8s — is zero-ops Kubernetes solution. According to the company, this will provide enhanced edge computing capabilities and ensure isolation and secure Kubernetes environments. Users … continue reading
