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MAAS Outside the Lines
By Bill Wear, 10 October 2023
Far from the humdrum of server setups, this is about unusual deployments – Raspberry Pis, loose laptops, cheap NUCs, home appliances, and more. What the heck...
What is a smartNIC and how is the technology shaping modern data centres?
By Serdar Vural, 6 October 2023
Data centres are going through a transformation. Gradually, we will see a new type of equipment attached to servers in almost every data centre: smartNICs are...
Securing open source software dependencies in the public cloud
By Aaron Whitehouse, 5 October 2023
Building stable and secure software requires understanding build systems and having a plan for vulnerabilities in your software dependencies.
Zenbleed vulnerability fix for Ubuntu
By Lech Sandecki, 3 October 2023
On 24 July 2023, security researchers from Google’s Information Security Engineering team disclosed a hardware vulnerability affecting AMD’s Zen 2 family of...
Start your Ubuntu Confidential VM with Intel® TDX on Google Cloud
By Hugo Huang, 20 September 2023
Confidential computing directly addresses the question of trust between cloud providers and their customers, with guarantees of data security for guest...
Deploy fully configured VMs in minutes on Google Cloud, using gcloud CLI and cloud-init
By Rajan Patel, 13 September 2023
Make reusable deployment templates for Landscape and other applications
Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 1
By Aaron Whitehouse, 12 September 2023
The LTS philosophy, releases, updates and repositories explained Since we launched Ubuntu Pro’s Expanded Security Maintenance for additional packages, and we...
How telcos are building carrier-grade infrastructure using open source
By Tytus Kurek, 8 September 2023
Telco cloud implementation with Canonical and HPE Service providers need cloud infrastructure everywhere, from modern 5G and 6G network functions running in...
Manage FIPS-enabled Linux machines at scale with Landscape 23.03
By Rajan Patel, 8 September 2023
You or your organisation are tasked with hardening your workstations and servers, where do you begin? Installing Ubuntu and applying all the security patches...
Cloud storage for enterprises
By Philip Williams, 6 September 2023
Any data-centric organisation faces the prospect of data growth at some point in their existence; it is estimated that more than 2,500 Petabytes (PB) of new...
Empowering Australian government innovation: a secure path to open source excellence
By Canonical, 5 September 2023
The Australian Federal Government is not alone in dealing with challenges like natural disasters, global pandemics and economic uncertainty. Like many...
LXD 5.17 is now available
By Miona Aleksic, 1 September 2023
An overview at what’s new in LXD 5.16 and 5.17 releases.