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Igor Ljubuncic
21 December 2023

We wish you RISC-V holidays!

HPC Article

There are three types of computer users: the end user, the system administrator, and the involuntary system administrator. As it happens, everyone has found themselves in the last group at some point or another; you sit down to perform a task relevant to your needs or duties, but suddenly the machine does not work as ...


Michael C. Jaeger
21 December 2023

Missed Operator Day at KubeCon NA 2023? – Catch the Replay!

Charms Article

If you missed Operator Day, we have good news: starting January 4th, we will present weekly on-demand events week covering the presentations step by step. ...


ijlal-loutfi
19 December 2023

Ubuntu Confidential VMs on Azure: Introducing Ephemeral OS disks & vTPMs

Confidential computing Confidential computing

Canonical introduces ephemeral vTPMs for Ubuntu Confidential VMs on Azure, Strengthening remote attestation. Explore the evolution of confidential computing, the pivotal role of vTPMs, and Ubuntu’s solution that minimizes reliance on cloud infrastructure while ensuring comprehensive security within your VM’s software stack.” ...


Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
19 December 2023

Still running SQL Server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS ?

Ubuntu Article

Running SQL Server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS? If so, this blog is for you to evaluate options to avoid compromising the security of your data Houston, we have a problem Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS reached the end of standard support on 31 May 2021 and 31 May 2023, respectively. While ...


Canonical
14 December 2023

Canonical and Intel’s strategic collaboration brings you confidential computing with Intel® TDX on Ubuntu

Canonical announcements Article

Ensuring data security at run-time has long been an open computing challenge and a tough problem to solve. This gap arises because data must be decrypted in system memory for processing, even when it is stored encrypted. This exposes it to a large attack surface of threats posed by potentially malicious system software, such as ...


Marcin "Perk" Stożek
14 December 2023

Canonical Kubernetes 1.29 is now generally available

Kubernetes Article

A new upstream Kubernetes release, 1.29, is generally available, with significant new features and bugfixes. Canonical closely follows upstream development, harmonising our releases to deliver timely and up-to-date enhancements backed by our commitment to security and support – which means that MicroK8s 1.29 is now generally available as ...


Oliver Smith
13 December 2023

Performance engineering on Ubuntu leaps forward with frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Cloud and server Article

Today Canonical is raising the bar for performance and observability by enabling frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ...


Canonical
13 December 2023

Canonical joins the OpenAirInterface
Software Alliance

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical announced today that it has joined the board of the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OSA) as a Strategic Member. By working together, both organisations aim to develop an end-to-end, open source and open API wireless software stack, and to deliver turnkey solutions for customers and partners. While 5G is now widely deployed a ...


Michael Hudson-Doyle
12 December 2023

Optimising Ubuntu performance on amd64 architecture

Ubuntu Article

Everyone wants the Linux distribution they are using to be fast. This is practically a content-free statement, of course: who would want their distro to be slow? But at the same time, what does it mean for your distribution to be fast? For example, Ubuntu 21.10 switched the default compression for packages to zstd, which ...


ijlal-loutfi
12 December 2023

Ubuntu confidential VMs with Intel® TDX are now in public preview on Azure

Confidential computing Confidential computing

Discover the enhanced security of Ubuntu Confidential VMs on Azure. With Intel TDX technology which encrypt your workloads at run time. Explore the public preview today and experience a new level of cloud security ...


robgibbon
12 December 2023

Announcing the Charmed Kafka beta

Data Platform Article

Charmed Kafka is a complete solution to manage the full lifecycle of Apache Kafka. The Canonical Data Fabric team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Charmed Kafka, our solution for Apache Kafka®. Apache Kafka® is a free, open source message broker for event processing at massive scale. Kafka is ideal for building ...