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Source to production: Spring Boot containers made easy
By Massimiliano Gori, 2 July 2025
This blog is contributed by Pushkar Kulkarni, a Software Engineer at Canonical. Building on the rise in popularity of Spring Boot and the 12 factor paradigm,...
Spring support available on Ubuntu
By Massimiliano Gori, 2 July 2025
This blog is contributed by Vladimir Petko, a Software Engineer at Canonical. The release of Plucky Puffin earlier this year introduced the availability of...
Chiseled Ubuntu containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21
By Canonical, 1 July 2025
Today we are announcing chiseled containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21 (Open Java Runtime Environment), coming from the OpenJDK project. These images are highly...
Introducing Canonical builds of OpenJDK
By Canonical, 1 July 2025
Java has long been the most popular language for software development in large enterprises, with 90% of Fortune 500 companies using it for backend...
Cut data center energy costs with bare metal automation
By David Beamonte, 26 June 2025
Data centers don’t have to be power-hungry monsters. With smart automation using tools like MAAS, you can reduce energy waste and operational costs, and make...
Native integration now available for Pure Storage and Canonical LXD
By Canonical, 25 June 2025
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and Pure Storage, the IT pioneer delivering enterprise-grade all-flash storage, have partnered to introduce a native...
Effective infrastructure automation to reduce data center costs
By David Beamonte, 20 June 2025
To truly reduce OpEx, you must shift your perspective from seeing operations as custom, artisanal work to one where operations are standardized, automated,...
Join Canonical at HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025
By Pedro Lazzarotto, 16 June 2025
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu and trusted open source solutions provider, is proud to sponsor HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025. Join us from June 23–26 to...
OpenStack with Sunbeam for medium-scale cloud infrastructure
By Tytus Kurek, 26 May 2025
The rapid growth in OpenStack installation and orchestration tools that we have seen in recent years has effectively established OpenStack as the world’s...
Simplify security maintenance and compliance with Ubuntu Pro auto-attach for LXD guests
By Miona Aleksic, 21 May 2025
With the latest LXD release, Ubuntu Pro now supports auto-attachment for LXD guest instances, offering organizations a seamless way to extend Ubuntu Pro...
What is geopatriation?
By Matthew de Klerk, 20 May 2025
Geopatriation refers to the relocation of workloads and applications from global cloud hyperscalers to regional or national alternatives due to geopolitical...
Rethinking virtualization: open source alternatives for resellers
By Matthew de Klerk, 19 May 2025
Organizations facing uncertainty in the virtualization market have multiple open source options to choose from, including OpenStack for large private clouds...