Cloud and Server

All you need to know about designing, building, and managing your
OpenStack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale-out deployment.


Hugo Huang
29 September 2022

Build Ubuntu Pro Golden Image on Google Cloud

Article Cloud and server

What is Golden Image A Golden image is a base image that is used as a template for your organization’s various virtual machines either on-prem or in the public cloud. It streamlines software development processes since mission-critical applications are dependent on a certified environment. Using Golden Images saves...

Hugo Huang
29 September 2022


Massimiliano Gori
28 September 2022

Le soluzioni enterprise di Canonical Ubuntu nel 2022

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu continua ad essere uno dei sistemi operativi più popolari sia nel cloud pubblico, con oltre 100 mila macchine virtuali Ubuntu create ogni giorno, sia nel cloud on-prem, dove Canonical è responsabile per circa il 40% dei nuovi deployment di Openstack dell’ultimo anno. Canonical è anche protagonista del mondo cloud...

Massimiliano Gori
28 September 2022


Hugo Huang
28 September 2022

Launch Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop on Google Cloud

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish was published in April this year. Ubuntu users are excited about its advanced desktop features, such as support for Wayland and GNOME 42 (I will use SliM this time since I won’t play any game in this demo). But recently, some Ubuntu users say that they can’t launch the Jammy Jellyfish

Hugo Huang
28 September 2022


Tytus Kurek
26 September 2022

Open-source cloud for beginners with OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

In the beginning, there was Amazon Web Services (AWS). And AWS set a standard for cloud computing. AWS was fast, flexible, convenient to use and geo-redundant. Definitely much better than legacy IT infrastructure or VMware. A lot of enterprises all over the world started migrating their business applications to AWS....

Tytus Kurek
26 September 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
16 September 2022

Join us at Operator Day, hosted by Canonical at Kubecon NA 2022

Article Cloud and server

The 5th Operator Day is coming up. It will take place at KubeCon North America 2022. This edition will center on cases where software operators have been applied successfully. Join us to hear about our experience in building software operators using Juju, an open-source operator lifecycle manager. Operators implemented...

Michael C. Jaeger
16 September 2022


Carlos Bravo
15 September 2022

Why Enterprises Choose Canonical Ubuntu on AWS

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is excited to partner with AWS and feature on this week’s episode of AWS on Air. Watch us live on September 16, at 12pm PT. As the publisher of the Linux distribution Ubuntu, Canonical support, secure, and manage Ubuntu infrastructure and devices for thousands of businesses. Ubuntu runs from cloud to edge. It is

Carlos Bravo
15 September 2022


Frank Heimes
13 September 2022

IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4: Maximise the value of next generation IBM LinuxONE servers with Ubuntu 22.04.1

Article Cloud and server

IBM has today announced the next generation of its enterprise-grade Linux server family, IBM LinuxONE. The LinuxONE Emperor 4 is IBM’s most highly performing, secure, sustainable and open Linux server to date.  As the world’s most powerful Linux-based server, LinuxONE Emperor 4 matches perfectly with Ubuntu, the leading...

Frank Heimes
13 September 2022


Miona Aleksic
12 September 2022

Using LXD to host your own ERP, cost-effectively

Article Cloud and server

Are you looking to host your own ERP cost-effectively, or perhaps evaluating solutions to host other types of applications for your small business? Learn how you can do that with LXD.

Miona Aleksic
12 September 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
5 September 2022

Best practices to publish open-source software operators

Article Charms

Running or operating applications requires several tasks throughout their lifecycle: scaling instances, checking the health, integrating with other applications, running backups, and applying updates – to name a few examples. It’s a time and labour-intensive process. To automate these tasks, developers can implement...

Michael C. Jaeger
5 September 2022


Felicia Jia
31 August 2022

Join Canonical at NVIDIA GTC 2022

Article Cloud and server

As a strategic partner of NVIDIA, Canonical is proud to be one of the leading sponsors of the NVIDIA GTC again! Join us virtually at NVIDIA GTC on September 19-22 to explore the latest technology and business trends and learn from experts on how AI and the evolution of the 3D Internet are profoundly impacting

Felicia Jia
31 August 2022


Rajan Patel
30 August 2022

FIPS certified vs compliant: what’s safer?

Article Cloud and server

Minimise risk by treating the FIPS standard as a baseline, and going above and beyond the baseline to mitigate risk by applying security patches.

Rajan Patel
30 August 2022


Berkay Tekin Öz
26 August 2022

Strictly Confined MicroK8s

Article Cloud and server

MicroK8s is now available as a strictly confined snap on 1.25! What is strict confinement? In summary, it is a snap confinement level that provides complete isolation, up to a minimal access level that’s always deemed safe. Strictly confined snaps can not access files, networks, processes, or any other system resource...

Berkay Tekin Öz
26 August 2022


Philip Williams
25 August 2022

Open-source storage for beginners with Ceph

Article Ceph

Modern organisations have become reliant on their IT capabilities, and at the heart of that infrastructure is a growing need to store data. Be it transactional databases, file shares, or burgeoning data lakes for business analytics. Traditionally, storage needs have been catered to by big iron hardware vendors, but over...

Philip Williams
25 August 2022


Miona Aleksic
24 August 2022

Open source for beginners: setting up your dev environment with LXD

Article Cloud and server

Are you looking for a way to practice your Linux commands without jeopardizing your underlying system? Want to practice running complex infrastructure use cases? Want to understand how the application you develop on your laptop would behave on a cloud instance? Try LXD.

Miona Aleksic
24 August 2022