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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
18 January 2022

CIS benchmark compliance: Introducing the Ubuntu Security Guide

Cloud and server Article

The CIS benchmark has hundreds of configuration recommendations, so hardening and auditing a Linux system manually can be very tedious. Every administrator of systems that need to comply with that benchmark would wish that this process is easily usable and automatable. Why is that? Manual configuration of such a large number of rules lead ...


Kris Sharma
17 January 2022

Canonical Kubernetes for Financial Services

Financial Services Article

To serve today’s on-demand customer, financial institutions must become agile digital enterprises focused on delivering innovative products, services, and customer experiences.  Adopting a container-first approach represents an unrivalled opportunity for financial institutions to increase system efficiency and resource utilisation, improv ...


Peter Mahnke
14 January 2022

Design and Web team summary – 17 December 2021

Design Design

Happy Christmas and New Years everyone! I hope you are all ready for a well deserved break.  The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights from our final iteration of the year. Web The Web ...


Gabriel Aguiar Noury
13 January 2022

The State of Robotics – December 2021

Robotics Article

I will be honest, I thought that December was going to be a slow month for the robotics news. With all the holidays, I was not expecting a month with exciting announcements or events. And when I was ready to put videos of robots dancing to Christmas carols, with Christmas hats and Christmas lights, I ...


Oliver Smith
11 January 2022

How low can you go? Running Ubuntu Desktop on a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4

Desktop Article

At Canonical we’re proud to be able to offer a full Ubuntu Desktop experience on the Raspberry Pi 4. Ubuntu Desktop provides everything you need to develop software and even deploy it to Ubuntu Server on devices like the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. However the full desktop environment is quite a lot for the ...


Bartek Szopka
10 January 2022

Release of Vanilla framework v3.0

Ubuntu Article

We’ve just released Vanilla v3.0 – a new major update to our CSS framework. It includes a few significant updates and improvements around spacing variables, responsive breakpoints, a new expanding search box and various updates to existing components. Important aspects of the release include dropping a noticeable chunk of deprecated style ...


Kris Sharma
10 January 2022

Kubernetes for Finservs – Unlocking success in digital transformations

Financial Services Article

The global health crisis has accelerated the digital transformation within the financial services industry. A McKinsey report highlights that “In a competitive environment of rising cost pressures, where rapid action and response is imperative, financial institutions must modernise their technology function to support expanded digitisatio ...


Igor Ljubuncic
7 January 2022

The Future of Snapcraft

Ubuntu Article

System hysteresis, when applied to software, can roughly be defined as an overall lag between desired implementation of code and actual implementation of said code. Ideally, this delay should be minimal, and programmers would be able to make instantaneous changes and improvements to their applications. In reality, things are more complex ...


Michael C. Jaeger
6 January 2022

Application composability and the shipping container

Charms Article

The previous blog post talked about the composability of applications. The key element for composing applications is defining the relations between application elements. And supporting relations is one of the advantages of the Charmed Operator Framework – including its runtime, the Charmed Operator Lifecycle Manager. The shipping containe ...


Tytus Kurek
6 January 2022

OpenStack challenges 2022

Cloud and server Article

Happy New Year 2022! The fireworks are all fired, the champagne is over. It is time to get back to work. We are glad to see you here though. 2021 was a good year for OpenStack and its Ubuntu-based community. First, we all have seen Ubuntu becoming the number one operating system (OS) for OpenStack ...


Michael C. Jaeger
5 January 2022

Application composability – a cloud computing perspective

Charms Article

Let’s remember the time in the 2000s when companies introduced their cloud computing offerings at a large scale. New services were put into the popular IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS categories. New kinds of storage and messaging technologies were promoted. Also, novel approaches were discussed, such as designing applications for horizontal scalabi ...