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Canonical has become the first Linux provider to integrate a snapshot service with Azure’s update mechanisms. This collaboration with Microsoft allows cloud administrators a safer and more predictable way to deploy updates across their fleets of Ubuntu instances on Azure. The importance of consistency in update rollouts While Ubuntu takes a number of steps to …

Ubuntu Snapshots on Azure: Ensuring predictability and consistency in cloud deployments Read More »

The industrial automation landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by a fundamental shift in how software solutions are developed and deployed. In the past, many factories had in-house IT expertise to build and maintain their basic software stacks, the present reality is quite different. Small-scale factories often lack the IT know-how to manage their increasingly complex …

Adopting open-source Industrial IoT software Read More »

Running MongoDB on Kubernetes Containers are a lightweight, portable, and consistent way to package applications and their dependencies. Containers provide an isolated environment, ensuring an application runs reliably across different environments. Enterprises and tech-savvy individuals are using container technologies because of their benefits. However,  container orchestration tools have become necessary to manage clusters with the …

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A lot of people, like myself, believe automotive is the most innovative sector today, especially when it comes to software. We are living a critical moment in automotive, where evolution is being pushed onto the market. This rapid software shift is posing challenges that are complicating developers’ progress. Most of these challenges are hardware-related. Gaining …

How environmental parity accelerates automotive software development Read More »

Publication of Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS has been halted since the end of August 2023. Canonical has since confirmed an undocumented policy when publishing to the Microsoft Azure Partner Center: a maximum of 100 image versions can be published to a Plan for a given Marketplace Offer. The maximum was reached with the publication of …

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In the modern cloud ecosystem, the emergence of Confidential VMs (CVMs) has marked a significant stride towards robust security. However, while CVMs excel in guarding against external code threats, they remain susceptible to vulnerabilities within their boundaries. Herein lies the profound synergy between Ubuntu Pro and Confidential VMs on Microsoft Azure. While the latter fortifies …

Introducing Confidential VMs on Ubuntu Pro for Azure Read More »

A few months ago, the OpenSSL Project announced the end of life of OpenSSL 1.1.1. It is used by thousands of software components included in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, with many organisations relying on version 1.1.1. Rest assured that the Ubuntu security team will continue to maintain important security fixes in OpenSSL …

Running OpenSSL 1.1.1 after EOL? Stay secure with Ubuntu Pro. Read More »

If you’ve been following my previous blog posts, you already know that the automotive industry is changing faster than ever. Updating software and firmware in vehicles is one area that’s particularly challenging and in flux.  Firmware Over-the-Air (FOTA) updates can be quite a puzzle when it comes to updating entire vehicle fleets. That’s because there …

Implementing FOTA updates for vehicles using a Dedicated Snap Store Read More »

Today, around 96% of software projects utilize open source in some way. The web team here at Canonical is passionate about Open source. We lead with an open-by-default approach and so almost everything we do and work on can be found publicly on the Canonical Github org. It is not enough to simply open our …

Web team – hack week 2023 Read More »

Date: 21-22 November 2023 Where: Rubaiyat, São Paulo, brazil The Canonical AI Roadshow is heading to Latin America. We will stop in Sao Paolo, Brazil, to host an event focusing on artificial intelligence. We’ll be discussing machine learning operations (MLOps), large language models (LLMs) and open source among other hot topics.  Register now to attend …

AI Day in Latin America: Meet us in São Paulo Read More »