Blog posts written by Hugo Huang

Hugo Huang
28 September 2022

Launch Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop on Google Cloud

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish was published in April this year. Ubuntu users are excited about its advanced desktop features, such as support for Wayland and GNOME 42 (I will use SliM this time since I won’t play any game in this demo). But recently, some Ubuntu users say that they can’t launch the Jammy Jellyfish ...

Hugo Huang
24 June 2022

Weave Cybersecurity into your product design

Cloud and server Article

How important security is for your application and digital services? “Very important”, this is the answer we get the most often from Product Managers and Executives. Nobody wants the malware to take advantage of the vulnerabilities of their applications. However, any access point to the internet can be an entry point for hackers. Consider ...

Hugo Huang
9 March 2022

Enable FIPS on Google Cloud

Cloud and server Article

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
14 December 2021

Data Pipelines Overview

Cloud and server Article

A Data Pipeline is a series of processes that collects raw data from various sources, filters the disqualified data, transforms them into the appropriate format, moves them to the places you want to store them, analyzes them, and finally presents them to your audience. As we can see in the chart above, a data pipeline ...

Hugo Huang
6 December 2021

Deploy Container on Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud

Cloud and server Article

Since I wrote Launch Ubuntu Desktop on Google Cloud last week, I kept thinking about putting Ubuntu Desktop into containers. A container is an independent unit of software packages and their dependencies so that the application on the container can run reliably in different computing environments. Docker, an open-source project launched i ...

Hugo Huang
29 November 2021

Launch Ubuntu Desktop on Google Cloud

Cloud and server Article

This tutorial shows you how to set up a Ubuntu Desktop on Google Cloud. If you need a graphic interface to your virtual desktop on the cloud, this tutorial will teach you how to set up a desktop environment just like what you can get on your own computer. We need four steps to set ...

Hugo Huang
22 November 2021

FIPS on Google Cloud

Cloud and server Article

In August 2016, the United States government announced a new federal source-code policy, which mandates that at least 20% of custom source code developed by or for any agency of the federal government must be released as open-source software (OSS). The memo of this policy also states that the Federal Government spends more than $6 ...

Hugo Huang
16 November 2021

Secure your Open-Source Freedom for 10 years

Cloud and server Article

If this is your desire, it is Ubuntu Pro’s commitment: “Ubuntu Pro will secure your Open-Source Freedom for 10 years”. Security and Freedom shouldn’t be a debate, a trade-off, even a dilemma. Security shouldn’t be your concern when you embrace Open-Source. A 10-year commitment Canonical backs Ubuntu Pro for 10 years, ensuring security upd ...

Hugo Huang
9 November 2021

CIS-Harden your Ubuntu in Google Cloud

Cloud and server Article

CIS Benchmarks are best practices for the secure configuration of a target system. The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) is the authority backing CIS Benchmarks. Ubuntu Pro is entitled to be CIS compliant and packaged with CIS toolings from Canonical. Let’s SSH into your Ubuntu Pro virtual machine. If you haven’t yet upgrade your ...

Hugo Huang
1 November 2021

Securing the Open-Source supply chain with Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud

Cloud and server Article

It’s official: since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercrime has increased by 600%. Among these, ransomware attacks are estimated to cost $6 trillion in 2021 alone. And there were nearly 550,000 ransomware attacks per day in 2020. The question is: are your workloads secure enough? In this blog, we will discuss how to make ...