--- title: Canonical Blog description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/maas/blog?format=md --- # The Source Stay informed: * [Press center](https://canonical.com/blog/latest-news) * [Ubuntu tech blog](https://ubuntu.com/blog) * [Ubuntu Discourse](https://discourse.ubuntu.com/) * [Events](https://canonical.com/events) #### [MAAS installation: bare metal provisioning is easier than ever](https://canonical.com/blog/maas-installation-bare-metal-provisioning-is-easier-than-ever) MAAS brings cloud-like automation to physical servers. It helps teams discover, commission, deploy, and repurpose machines from a central control plane, turning bare metal into a programmable resource. But to experience that value, users first need to get MAAS up and running. That path is now cleaner and easier to follow. We’ve created ne --- Cloud and Infrastructure #### [Managing Ubuntu on bare metal at scale](https://canonical.com/blog/managing-ubuntu-on-bare-metal-at-scale) Modern infrastructure teams are expected to deliver cloud-like speed, consistency, and reliability, even when their workloads run on physical servers. Bare metal remains essential for many environments: private clouds, Kubernetes clusters, AI infrastructure, edge sites, regulated platforms, and large Ubuntu estates. But operating physical --- Cloud and Infrastructure #### [Ubuntu Server: a platform made for enterprise scale](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-server-a-platform-made-for-enterprise-scale) A platform is an environment that allows software to run smoothly across the infrastructure, runtime, and application layers. The key word there is “smoothly”: a good platform connects those layers so well that you don’t notice it. That’s what Ubuntu Server has become: the essential layer between bare metal and the apps running on top, --- Cloud and Infrastructure #### [VMware hypervisor deployment using MAAS](https://canonical.com/blog/vmware-hypervisor-deployment-using-maas) Most modern datacenters are inherently heterogeneous. VMware environments coexist with container platforms, databases, and other bare-metal workloads, often on the same hardware over several years. Servers are bought once, but their role changes as requirements evolve. However, ESXi (the VMware hypervisor) provisioning is often handled se --- MAAS #### [The bare metal problem in AI Factories](https://canonical.com/blog/the-bare-metal-problem-in-ai-factories) As AI platforms grow into large-scale “AI Factories,” the real bottleneck shifts from model design to operational complexity. With expensive GPU accelerators, hardware failures and inconsistent configurations lead directly to lost throughput and reduced return on investment. While Kubernetes orchestrates workloads, it cannot fix broken ph --- MAAS #### [A better way to provision NVIDIA BlueField DPUs at scale with MAAS](https://canonical.com/blog/a-better-way-to-provision-nvidia-bluefield-dpus-at-scale-with-maas) The recent release of MAAS 3.7 introduces a significant new capability: the ability to provision NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units (DPUs) directly through their Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), --- Cloud and server #### [Canonical MAAS awarded best quality software by TIOBE](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-maas-awarded-as-best-quality-software-by-tiobe) Canonical’s MAAS User Interface has been ranked as the top-quality software project in its category by the quarterly TIOBE Software Quality Assurance Award --- MAAS #### [Cut data center energy costs with bare metal automation](https://canonical.com/blog/cut-data-center-energy-costs-with-bare-metal-automation) Data centers don’t have to be power-hungry monsters. With smart automation using tools like MAAS, you can reduce energy waste and operational costs, and make your infrastructure greener, without sacrificing performance or flexibility. --- Cloud and server --- ## Newsletter signup Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/data-privacy). Sign up #### [Effective infrastructure automation to reduce data center costs](https://canonical.com/blog/effective-infrastructure-automation-to-reduce-data-center-costs) To truly reduce OpEx, you must shift your perspective from seeing operations as custom, artisanal work to one where operations are standardized, automated, and repeatable.  In other words, commoditized. --- Cloud and server #### [OpenStack with Sunbeam for medium-scale cloud infrastructure](https://canonical.com/blog/openstack-with-sunbeam-for-medium-scale-cloud-infrastructure) The rapid growth in OpenStack installation and orchestration tools that we have seen in recent years has effectively established OpenStack as the world’s leading open source cloud platform. Projects like Sunbeam or Kolla Ansible, for example, are effectively transforming OpenStack into yet another user application. By using containers and --- Cloud and server #### [Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs](https://canonical.com/blog/data-centre-ai-evolution-combining-maas-and-nvidia-smartnics) It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service (MAAS) enables the management and control of smart NICs on top of bare-metal servers. NVIDIA BlueField smart NICs are very high data rate network interface cards providing advanced s --- AI #### [Canonical joins the Sylva project](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-joins-the-sylva-project) Canonical is proud to announce that we have joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe as a General Member. We aim to bring our open source infrastructure solutions to Sylva and contribute to the project’s goal of providing a platform to validate cloud-native telco functions. 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