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This newsletter is here to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the Foundations team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-devel channel on freenode. Highlights We encourage flavor teams to

August 22 through August 28 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Beta 1 – Aug 31 (~1-2 days away) Final Beta – Sept 28 (~4 weeks away) Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~5 weeks away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~6 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.04 – Oct 19 (~7 weeks away) We intend

This article originally appeared in Christian Brauner’s blog Even before LXD gained its new powerful storage API that allows LXD to administer multiple storage pools, one frequent request was to extend the range of available storage drivers (btrfs, dir, lvm, zfs) to include Ceph. Now we are happy to announce that we fulfilled this request

Hello Ubuntu Server! The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team

This article originally appeared on Brian Murray’s blog Earlier I wrote about how it is possible to upgrade, with the upgrade prompt set to normal, from Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) to Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty) and that this is a supported upgrade path. There is an unsupported method to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to Artful Aardvark, which

This article originally appeared in Snapcraft Forums Welcome to the weekly development notes for snapcraft! This covers work from August 20-26, 2017. Development in master many: simplify plugin loading PR: #1507 grammar: move into project_loader PR: #1500 project loader: refactor into package PR: #1504 ci: speedup the CLA check PR: #1503

This article originally appeared at the Linux Containers forum Introduction This week saw the release of LXD 2.17 and it’s now quickly rolling out to our users. We’re still very busy with preparation work for LXC 2.1 with a tentative release date of Monday next week. A lot of work has gone into our snap package, including

LXDWe’ve taken some preliminary steps in providing the user better feedback when wanting to deploy onto the localhost provider. If conjure-up isn’t able to talk to the same API endpoints Juju can then our probability of success is next to none.We do some fancy realtime UI updates so

GNOME Shell Didier has written a series of blog posts detailing how we’ve set up the Ubuntu GNOME Shell session in Artful to co-exist with the default GNOME Shell experience and still give us the flexibility we need to shape the experience as we would like. You can start at day one here.  We worked

This article originally appeared on Tim Van Steenburgh’s blog August 18th concluded our most recent development sprint on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). Here are some highlights: CI failures fixed. We spent some time fixing a handful of CI failures that had crept in recently. We’re back to green now and looking good for a

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com During the last week

This article was originally featured on Chad Smith’s blog Is there an echo in here? When looking through cloud-config modules it seemed there was a lot of boilerplate documentation and logic in each module to document and validate accepted configuration keys for the module. Houston, we have a problem Problem 1: Doc rot Cloud-init has

These are my notes about UbuconLA, a bit of social activities and thoughts on the talks related to the snappy ecosystem.Arriving I left late on thursday for a planned night arrival into Lima, Leo was going to be arriving around 2 hours earlier than me

The changes in this release include New features: Add support for specifying the ceph user (using the “ceph.user.name” property) Implement “instance types” as an easy way to specify limits (e.g. “lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 -t t2.micro”) Add a new “lxc query” command as a low level query tool for the LXD API (similar to curl but

Canonical supports enterprise Kubernetes on cloud and on-premises Two turnkey consulting packages for rapid deployment Support for Galactic Fog serverless, Rancher container management and Weave Cloud Reference architectures for Kubernetes operations on cloud or bare-metal LONDON, U.K, Aug 23rd, 2017, Canonical today announced two consult

Development (Artful / 17.10) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The artful kernel is now based on Linux 4.12. The Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017. The 4.12 kernel is available in the archive for Artful 17.10. It is based on upstream v4.12.8. The Artful staging