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Benjamin Ryzman
9 April 2025

SONiC: The open source network operating system for modern data centers

Networking Networking

Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is an open-source network operating system that has revolutionized data center networking. Originating as a Microsoft-led initiative in the Open Compute Project (OCP) in 2016, SONiC has rapidly gained traction among hyperscalers and switch hardware vendors, including...

Benjamin Ryzman
9 April 2025

Canonical
8 April 2025

Ubuntu developer images now available for OrangePi RV2: a low-cost RISC-V SBC

Downloads Canonical announcements

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, is excited to announce the availability of Ubuntu developer images for the new OrangePi RV2 RISC-V single board computer (SBC). We’re delighted to add this latest piece of hardware to our Ubuntu developer ecosystem, where our RISC-V partners build their own Ubuntu images, as we’re...

Canonical
8 April 2025

Stefano Fioravanzo
8 April 2025

Announcing Charmed Kubeflow 1.10

Article Ubuntu

Canonical proudly announces the release of Charmed Kubeflow 1.10

Stefano Fioravanzo
8 April 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

Michelle Anne Tabirao
2 April 2025

How does MongoDB work?

Article Data Platform

Explore what MongoDB is, how it functions, and how organizations utilize it for specific applications to achieve business benefits.

Michelle Anne Tabirao
2 April 2025

Rajan Patel
31 March 2025

Automated patching for the Linux kernel

Article Security

To start securely and efficiently, Linux systems follow a carefully orchestrated sequence of steps to initialize firmware and manage services. Applying security patches to the software responsible for some of these early steps of Linux startup often requires a full system reboot. Frequent reboots driven by unplanned...

Rajan Patel
31 March 2025

Canonical
28 March 2025

KubeCon Europe 2025: Containers & Connections with Ubuntu

Article container

It’s hard to believe that the first KubeCon took place nearly 10 years ago. Back then, Kubernetes was still in its early days, and the world was only just beginning to understand the power of container orchestration. Fast-forward to today, and Kubernetes is a fundamental part of cloud-native development, taught in...

Canonical
28 March 2025

Edoardo Barbieri
28 March 2025

The State of Silicon and Devices – Q1 2025 Roundup

Article Ubuntu

Welcome to the first quarterly roundup on the State of Silicon and Devices by Canonical. Q1 has seen lots of announcements in the areas of Edge AI and cybersecurity. Companies across the semiconductor and software ecosystem are pushing toward more powerful, energy-efficient AI models at the edge, while simultaneously...

Edoardo Barbieri
28 March 2025

Hugo Huang
27 March 2025

Ubuntu Confidential VMs Now Available on Google Cloud A3 with NVIDIA H100 GPUs

Article AI

Organizations are racing to harness the transformative power of AI, but sensitive data privacy and model security remain critical roadblocks. What if you could unlock the full potential of AI without compromising your most valuable assets? Canonical is thrilled to announce the availability of Ubuntu Confidential VMs on...

Hugo Huang
27 March 2025

Ishani Ghoshal
27 March 2025

Open source enterprise application security remains a challenge despite greater patching efforts, IDC research reveals

Article Ubuntu

The latest report from the International Data Corporation (IDC) co-sponsored by Canonical and Google Cloud indicates that 36% of organizations adopt open source to improve development velocity, and 7 in 10 organizations see open source as extremely important to run mission critical workloads. However as open source...

Ishani Ghoshal
27 March 2025

Canonical
26 March 2025

70% of IT teams spend more than 6 hours per week on security patching – new IDC research

Article Canonical announcements

Open source software is a popular tool for businesses for many reasons, but this adoption has introduced new challenges in maintaining their open source software supply chain. 57% of organizations source their packages from upstream open source repositories, and 51% from ecosystem packages like pip or npm. The research...

Canonical
26 March 2025

Canonical
25 March 2025

Rivos and Canonical partner to deliver scalable RISC-V solutions in Data Centers and enable an enterprise-grade Ubuntu experience across Rivos platforms

Article Canonical announcements

Rivos Inc. brings scalable, high-performance AI accelerating solutions to the Data Center, helping to turn the benefits of both AI and Data Analytics into a reality. Rivos is working with Canonical to deliver the widely utilized Ubuntu OS on top of the Data Center-class integrated RISC-V CPU and innovative GPGPU...

Canonical
25 March 2025

Stephanie Domas
24 March 2025

What is Application Security (AppSec)?

Article Hardening

Application security (or AppSec, for short) is a broad term that refers to all of the tools, actions, and processes that an organization uses to protect its applications against vulnerabilities across the entirety of its life cycle. Application security has one objective: to find weaknesses in your applications and...

Stephanie Domas
24 March 2025

Andreea Munteanu
20 March 2025

Accelerating AI with open source machine learning infrastructure

Article AI

The landscape of artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, demanding robust and scalable infrastructure. To meet these challenges, we’ve developed a comprehensive reference architecture (RA) that leverages the power of open-source tools and cutting-edge hardware. This architecture, built on Canonical’s MicroK8s and...

Andreea Munteanu
20 March 2025