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Happy birthday – 30 years of linux

Happy birthday – 30 Years of Linux

Won’t be big Thirty years ago today, Linus Torvalds announced his free operating system to the world. As with many of the world’s greatest, Linux had humble beginnings as a very small pet project. The GNU was working on an ambitious free, public domain operating system but the project had been delayed, and enthusiasts were […]

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Atresmedia modernises spain’s most popular streaming platform with canonical charmed kubernetes

Atresmedia modernises Spain’s most popular streaming platform with Canonical Charmed Kubernetes

The streaming service for the leading communication group in Spain leaves behind outdated applications and adopts a microservices architecture enabled by Canonical.  SPAIN, August 24, 2021— Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces that Atresmedia, the leading company in the Over-The-Top (OTT) services market in Spain, selected its Charmed Kubernetes to build a new microservice-based architecture

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Kubernetes fully managed – half the cost of aws

Kubernetes Fully Managed – half the cost of AWS

How can you run a fully managed Kubernetes in a private cloud at half the cost of Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)? AWS – the leading public cloud provider Amazon has been leading the Gartner magic quadrant of the cloud infrastructure & platform services (CIPS) for 11 years with its endless innovation and wide portfolio

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Model-driven observability: the magic of juju topology for metrics

Model-driven observability: the magic of Juju topology for metrics

In the first post of this series, we covered the general idea and benefits of model-driven observability with Juju, but did not dive deep into the idea of contextualization and how it makes observability more actionable. In this post we start addressing what contextualization means in model-driven observability, starting from adding Juju topology metadata added

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Snap usage metrics now available on the command line

Snap usage metrics now available on the command line

For years now, developers and publishers could view how well their snaps are performing in terms of usage and popularity through the Snap Store Web interface, using the metrics tab. This functionality allows people to examine the cause and effect of their work, like software updates, marketing campaigns, or other events. But it requires manual

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Canonical and dfi launch the first ubuntu certified amd-based “industrial pi”

Canonical and DFI launch the first Ubuntu certified AMD-based “Industrial Pi”

Canonical and DFI announce that the GHF51 and EC90A-GH, have been certified, based on the latest AMD-based platform. Both offer improved performance, a smaller footprint, and full access to open-source software with Ubuntu and Ubuntu Core. These are part of the first wave of products that passed the Ubuntu IoT hardware certification. Small footprint, better

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How to run apache spark on microk8s and ubuntu core, in the cloud: part 4

How to run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the cloud: Part 4

In this series, we’ve been building up an Apache Spark cluster on Kubernetes using MicroK8s, Ubuntu Core OS, LXD and GCP. We’ve learned about and set up nested virtualisation on the cloud, and had some fun. But right, it’s retrospective time: in Part 1, we saw how to get MicroK8s up on LXD, on Ubuntu

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