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Canonical/Ubuntu Promoting Proprietary Stacks and Apache Spark
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Ubuntu ☛ Canonical announces optimized Ubuntu images for TPU virtual machines by Google Cloud
Today, Canonical and Google Cloud announced the availability of certified Ubuntu images for Google’s Cloud TPU Virtual Machines, which are included by default when setting up the VMs.
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Ubuntu ☛ VMware hypervisor deployment using MAAS
However, ESXi (the VMware hypervisor) provisioning is often handled separately. Hosts are installed using VMware tooling, custom scripts, or automations that are designed to deploy ESXi onto the machine. These workflows are effective in isolation, but they don’t always integrate with how the rest of the physical infrastructure is tracked and managed.
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Ubuntu ☛ Migrating from Apache Spark 3 to Spark 4
The purpose of this guide is to highlight the key differences between Apache Spark 3 and Spark 4, and provide advice on how to plan a migration. Let’s get started.