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MOTL: N33 NUC, Part 2
By Bill Wear, 3 January 2024
Accessing the BIOS; making a plan My next step is to confirm whether or not the N33 NUC will PXE boot. A moderate Google search didn’t turn up any active...
OpenStack with Sunbeam for small-scale private cloud infrastructure
By Tytus Kurek, 2 January 2024
Whenever it comes to a small-scale private cloud infrastructure project roll-out, organisations usually face a serious dilemma. The implementation process...
Performance engineering on Ubuntu leaps forward with frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
By Oliver Smith, 13 December 2023
Today Canonical is raising the bar for performance and observability by enabling frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
How to use Ubuntu in GKE on nodes and in containers
By Hugo Huang, 5 December 2023
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) traces its roots back to Google’s development of Borg in 2004, a Google internal system managing clusters and applications. In...
Canonical joins the Sylva project
By Serdar Vural, 5 December 2023
Canonical is proud to announce that we have joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe as a General Member. We aim to bring our open source...
Edge storage with MicroCeph
By Philip Williams, 5 December 2023
Here, there, everywhere – MicroCeph makes edge storage easy Data is everywhere, not just in large centralised data centres, but in smaller outposts, like...
MOTL: Minis Forum N33 NUC
By Bill Wear, 30 November 2023
Part 1: The hardware setup As a first attempt at trying MAAS outside the lines (MOTL), let’s pick a random, inexpensive Next Unit of Computing (NUC). Indeed,...
Fast and reliable telco edge clouds with Intel FlexRAN and Real-time Ubuntu for 5G URLLC scenarios
By Serdar Vural, 30 November 2023
Intel and Canonical have been collaborating to deliver advanced infrastructure that can run the networks of the future. More and more, we see edge cloud...
Generative AI explained
By Hugo Huang, 29 November 2023
When OpenAI released ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, no one could have anticipated that the following 6 months would usher in a dizzying transformation for...
Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 3
By Aaron Whitehouse, 24 November 2023
Applying updates across a fleet of multiple Ubuntu instances is a balance of security and service uptime. We explore best practices to maximise stability.
Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 2
By Aaron Whitehouse, 21 November 2023
You probably know that it is important to apply security updates. You may not be clear how to do that. We are going to explain best practices for applying...
Cloud backup: improve your disaster recovery plans
By Philip Williams, 21 November 2023
Say goodbye to tape, and hello to flexible cloud backup. Today the lowest cost media per terabyte for backups is still tape, even after factoring in the...