Blog posts tagged
"networking"

39 posts

Benjamin Ryzman
11 June 2025

Canonical Kubernetes meets NVIDIA DOCA Platform Framework (DPF): building the future of DPU-driven infrastructure

Article Kubernetes

The combined solutions simplify infrastructure operations and accelerate time-to-value for AI, telecom, and enterprise computing workloads. Accelerate deployment and operations of BlueField DPUs with Canonical Kubernetes At GTC Paris today, Canonical announced support for the NVIDIA DOCA Platform Framework (DPF) with...

Benjamin Ryzman
11 June 2025

Benjamin Ryzman
2 April 2025

The future of Kubernetes networking: Cilium and other CNIs with Canonical Kubernetes

Article Kubernetes

Choosing the right Container Network Interface (CNI) for Kubernetes is critical to achieving optimal performance, security, and scalability. With the launch of  Canonical Kubernetes LTS (long-term support) last month, Canonical decided to integrate Cilium as the default CNI in order to reflect our commitment to...

Benjamin Ryzman
2 April 2025

Benjamin Ryzman
21 June 2024

Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs

Article AI

It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service (MAAS) enables the management and control of smart NICs on top of bare-metal servers. NVIDIA BlueField smart NICs are very high data rate network interface cards...

Benjamin Ryzman
21 June 2024

Benjamin Ryzman
22 April 2024

Achieving Performant Single-Tenant Cloud Isolation with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers, Ubuntu Core, Snaps, and AMD Pensando Elba Data Processing Unit

Article Networking

Discover how IBM Cloud’s bare metal servers offer highly confined and high-performing single-tenant cloud isolation through the use of Ubuntu Core and Snaps, supported by the AMD Pensando Elba DPU (Data Processing Unit). This setup enables the creation of secure and efficient environments for each tenant. Its design...

Benjamin Ryzman
22 April 2024

Lukas Märdian
5 April 2024

Introducing Netplan v1.0 – stable, declarative network management

Article Cloud and server

After more than 7 years of development, Netplan v1.0 delivers improved stability and maintainability alongside a host of other new features.

Lukas Märdian
5 April 2024

Shashank Balashankar
19 March 2024

Canonical collaborates with NVIDIA to simplify enterprise AI deployments with NVIDIA BlueField-3 operating an optimised, Ubuntu-based Linux OS 

Article Networking

The NVIDIA BlueField-3 networking platform – powering the latest data processing units (DPUs) and SuperNICs, and transforming data centre performance and efficiency – runs BlueField OS, an optimised Linux operating system (OS) derived from Ubuntu. With Ubuntu’s signature maintenance and support guarantees, the...

Shashank Balashankar
19 March 2024

Lukas Märdian
14 November 2023

Netplan brings consistent network configuration across Desktop, Server, Cloud and IoT

Article Cloud and server

Learn how Netplan has established itself as the proven network stack across all variants of Ubuntu – Server, Cloud, Embedded and now Desktop.

Lukas Märdian
14 November 2023

Serdar Vural
11 October 2023

SmartNICs in telco: benefits and use cases

Article Cloud and server

In our previous blog, we introduced smartNICs as technology enablers for next-generation converged data centres. We covered how smartNICs can increase efficiency and drive return on investment. In this blog post, we explain how this innovative technology can help the telecom industry. SmartNICs use cases for the telecom...

Serdar Vural
11 October 2023

Shashank Balashankar
13 June 2023

Canonical solutions reduce SmartNIC time-to-market and drive efficiency in enterprise data centres

Article Networking

Data centre efficiency is a central cost factor in enterprise IT environments. So, in the face of rising energy costs and increasingly resource-intensive workloads, it is more important than ever for businesses to seek out greater optimisation. Traditionally, CPUs have been used for the majority of data centre...

Shashank Balashankar
13 June 2023

Felicia Jia
6 June 2023

Meet Canonical at SmartNICs Summit 2023

Article Networking

SmartNICs, the programmable network adapters that make data centre networking, security and storage efficient, scalable and modular, have started to play a significant role in the industry. Combining traditional NIC capabilities with advanced processing power, smartNICs allow many infrastructure capabilities to be...

Felicia Jia
6 June 2023

Tytus Kurek
23 April 2021

Ubuntu Server 21.04:

What’s new?

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu Server 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) brings significant improvements to automation and stability fronts with new extensions to the Ubuntu Server Live Installer and phased updates in the Advanced Package Tool (APT). In addition, the latest development cycle includes improved enterprise applications availability with...

Tytus Kurek
23 April 2021

Canonical
5 October 2020

NVIDIA’s Ariel Kit Explains How NVIDIA BlueField DPUs Are Redefining Data Center Services

Article Ubuntu

NVIDIA is redefining the data center around the concept of data processing units (DPUs): powerful network cards running Ubuntu out of the box that combine hardware and software to deliver new classes of cloud architectures – in the data center and at the edge.  Whether for private clouds, edge computing or data center...

Canonical
5 October 2020

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
10 July 2017

Netplan by default in 17.10

Article Ubuntu

Recently, I uploaded an updated nplan package (version 0.24) to change its Priority: field to important, as well as an update of ubuntu-meta (following a seeds update), to replace ifupdown with nplan in the minimal seed. What this means concretely is that nplan should now be installed by default on all images, part of...

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
10 July 2017

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
5 July 2017

Quick and easy network configuration with Netplan

Article Cloud and server

Earlier this week I uploaded netplan 0.21 in artful, with SRUs in progress for the stable releases. There are still lots of features coming up, but it’s also already quite useful. You can already use it to describe typical network configurations on desktop and servers, all the way to interesting, complicated setups like...

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
5 July 2017

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