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Join Canonical at the first-ever African OpenInfra Days
By Sharon Koech, 2 September 2025
For the second time, and in less than one month, Canonical is coming to East Africa! Three weeks ago, we had the first-ever UbuCon Africa, which was...
Generating allow-lists with DNS monitoring on LXD
By Nicholas Morris, 26 August 2025
Allow-listing web traffic – blocking all web traffic that has not been pre-approved – is a common practice in highly sensitive environments. It is also a...
Ubuntu available in Microsoft’s new WSL distribution format
By Jean-Baptiste Lallement, 5 February 2025
New format in Windows Subsystem for Linux makes adoption easier in enterprise environments by enabling image customization and deployments at scale
6 facts for CentOS users who are holding on
By Lech Sandecki, 23 October 2024
Considering migrating to Ubuntu from other Linux platforms, such as CentOS? Find six useful facts to get started!
Canonical’s showcase at HPE Tech Jam 2024
By Felipe Vanni, 12 March 2024
Canonical, a leading advocate for open-source technology, is excited to announce its participation in the HPE Tech Jam 2024, set to take place in Atlanta and...
WSL and Ubuntu: 2022 year in review
By Oliver Smith, 4 January 2023
Join us as we look back at some of the transformative changes to WSL over the last year as well as a roundup of our personal highlights and Ubuntu insights.
Kubernetes operators – the top 5 things to watch for
By robgibbon, 31 August 2022
Software operators are steadily revolutionising how we deploy and run complex distributed systems. They offer the promise of low-intervention, self-driving...
Create FIPS-enabled Ubuntu container images with 10-year security updates
By Valentin Viennot, 25 May 2022
Canonical’s UA and Pro customers can now fully benefit from their subscriptions directly in containerised environments and pipelines. The new UA client...
Open source enterprise support vs free open source use
By Lech Sandecki, 9 March 2021
Ubuntu and CentOS are both popular examples of open source Linux operating systems adopted because of the breadth of community support, but also because of...
Data centre automation for HPC
By Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez, 29 June 2020
Friction points in HPC DevOps Many High Performance Computing (HPC) setups are still handcrafted configurations where tuning changes can take days or weeks....
What is Apache Kafka?
By robgibbon, 29 June 2020
Discover Charmed Kafka Everyone hates waiting in a queue. On the other hand, when you’re routing an absolute storm of event data around a cloud environment,...