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Miona Aleksic
15 March 2022

What are Linux containers?

Article Cloud and server

This blog explains what are Linux containers, how they differ from application containers, and when should you use them.

Miona Aleksic
15 March 2022

Bill Wear
10 March 2022

Deep work in interesting times

Article Cloud and server

Prologue As programmers and tech writers, we are creators, and we are knowledge workers. We strive to do rare and valuable work, regardless of the circumstances, what Dartmouth professor Cal Newport calls deep work. Deep work is hard and difficult. At Canonical, we are specifically committed to doing things that are...

Bill Wear
10 March 2022

Hugo Huang
9 March 2022

Enable FIPS on Google Cloud

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu Pro FIPS images are now available in Google Cloud. Find out more about why you need a FIPS-compliant environment and how you can be FIPS compliant in Google Cloud.

Hugo Huang
9 March 2022

Tytus Kurek
3 March 2022

OpenStack is dead? The numbers speak for themselves.

Article Cloud and server

Austin, Texas – 3rd of March 2022 – OpenStack is dead! A masked man in a black cloak with “public clouds”, “containers” and ”serverless” inscriptions shot OpenStack straight in the heart. OpenStack fell to the ground and with the last moment of strength exclaimed: “Long live open infrastructure”! That could be a headline of a

Tytus Kurek
3 March 2022

Rajan Patel
28 February 2022

An overview of live kernel patching

Article Cloud and server

Learn how Canonical improves security on Linux with live kernel patching. Track Livepatch activity over time in Landscape.

Rajan Patel
28 February 2022

Tytus Kurek
17 February 2022

An overview of OpenStack storage

Article Ceph

OpenStack storage is probably one of the most complex topics in OpenStack architecture right after networking. There are many different storage options, at least a few storage services, and tons of supported storage backends. It is very easy to get lost. But do not worry, there is hope. Since OpenStack was initially...

Tytus Kurek
17 February 2022

Michael C. Jaeger
11 February 2022

Learn how to build a minimal Charm

Article Cloud and server

The previous blog post talked about the community workshops taking place in the Juju and Charm community. Normally the community workshops take place every Friday at 10:00 am CET. The details for these workshops can be found in the public channel on Mattermost. In one of the workshops, Erik Lönroth held a tutorial on how

Michael C. Jaeger
11 February 2022

Michael C. Jaeger
11 February 2022

A Charming community: how to join the Juju and Charmed Operators community

Article Cloud and server

If you are familiar with open source, you know that the community is what drives a project and gives its purpose, keeps it alive and thriving. So, it is important to support that community, and provide tools and encouragement to help it grow. Today, we would highlight the community behind Juju and Charmed Operators and

Michael C. Jaeger
11 February 2022

Bartłomiej Poniecki-Klotz
10 February 2022

Deploying Kubeflow Pipelines with Azure AKS spot instances

Article AI

Introduction Charmed Kubeflow is an MLOps platform from Canonical, designed to improve the lives of data engineers and data scientists by delivering an end-to-end solution for AM/ML model ideation, training, release and maintenance, from concept to production. As a result, Charmed Kubeflow includes Kubeflow Pipelines,...

Bartłomiej Poniecki-Klotz
10 February 2022

Rajan Patel
2 February 2022

Linux Server Management considerations

Article Cloud and server

Objectively compare Linux server management products, and identify what server dashboard is best suited for your organisation.

Rajan Patel
2 February 2022

Tytus Kurek
2 February 2022

Open source cloud platform: meet OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Are you looking for an open source cloud platform and you don’t know where to start? Are you getting lost in all the independent rankings and cloud platform comparison pages? Try OpenStack and get your open source cloud platform up and running today. OpenStack works at any scale: from a single workstation to thousands of

Tytus Kurek
2 February 2022

Wajeeha Hamid
26 January 2022

Telco workloads orchestration in multi-clouds environments – focus for Open Source MANO release ELEVEN

Article Cloud and server

Open source MANO release ELEVEN is here with another set of exciting features for the telco world!! Promising the production-grade orchestration of telco workloads, OSM release ELEVEN focuses on the trends of cloud-native deployments in multi-cloud environments. To overcome the challenges that we have discussed in...

Wajeeha Hamid
26 January 2022

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
18 January 2022

CIS benchmark compliance: Introducing the Ubuntu Security Guide

Article Cloud and server

The CIS benchmark has hundreds of configuration recommendations, so hardening and auditing a Linux system manually can be very tedious. Every administrator of systems that need to comply with that benchmark would wish that this process is easily usable and automatable. Why is that? Manual configuration of such a large...

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
18 January 2022

Michael C. Jaeger
6 January 2022

Application composability and the shipping container

Article Charms

The previous blog post talked about the composability of applications. The key element for composing applications is defining the relations between application elements. And supporting relations is one of the advantages of the Charmed Operator Framework – including its runtime, the Charmed Operator Lifecycle Manager....

Michael C. Jaeger
6 January 2022

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