Blog posts tagged "Public cloud"

Oracle Kubernetes Engine now supports Ubuntu images for worker nodes natively, with no need for custom images 8 October 2025 – Today Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced that Ubuntu worker nodes for Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) are now available in Limited Availability. This means that OKE now supports Ubuntu images for worker

Azure’s Update Manager now provides a complete security view for all Ubuntu LTS VMs—18.04, 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04—by showing available updates from Ubuntu Pro’s Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM). This helps identify instances that would benefit from security patching for the Universe repository and continued updates for older LTS relea

Ubuntu recently released a snapshot service to use the archive as it was at a point in history. This article explains how to integrate this into systems management or update tools.

In the first part of this blog journey (I’d call it a post, but it’s actually two posts) we explored what operational excellence looks like in public cloud deployments. And while I do not want to spoil it for you, the main takeaway was that it is not easy and can become resource-intensive. With this

You might be tempted to think that running an app on a public cloud means you don’t need to maintain it. While that would be wonderful, it would require help from the public cloud providers and

Explore the latest features and improvements of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, codenamed ‘Noble Numbat’. This release, optimized for Microsoft/Azure users, introduces an enhanced Azure Marketplace experience, optimized performance on Azure infrastructure, and advanced developer toolchains. Discover how Ubuntu continues to lead in confidential computin

One of the biggest challenges that cloud service providers (CSPs) face these days is to deliver an extension of the public cloud they host to a small-scale piece of infrastructure that runs on customers’ premises. While the world’s tech giants, such as Amazon or Azure, have developed their own solutions for this purpose, many smaller,

Discover the benefits of using Ubuntu for open-source AI and how to seamlessly deploy models on Azure, including leveraging GPU and Confidential Compute capabilities.

Applying updates across a fleet of multiple Ubuntu instances is a balance of security and service uptime. We explore best practices to maximise stability.

You probably know that it is important to apply security updates. You may not be clear how to do that. We are going to explain best practices for applying Ubuntu updates to single instances and what the built-in unattended-upgrades tool does and does not do.

Canonical and Microsoft Azure integrate Snapshot Service with Azure’s update mechanisms for Ubuntu. Achieve deterministic updates across Ubuntu VM fleets, bolstering Safe Deployment Practices (SDP). Uniformity in deployed packages now guaranteed from staging to production.

Building stable and secure software requires understanding build systems and having a plan for vulnerabilities in your software dependencies.

The LTS philosophy, releases, updates and repositories explained Since we launched Ubuntu Pro’s Expanded Security Maintenance for additional packages, and we now integrate more closely with public cloud update management tools, more people have been asking us about the Ubuntu archive and how this is divided and security patched. In this b

Picture this: you’re on a dream vacation with your family on a serene tropical island. The weather is perfect, the sea is mesmerising, and you’re ready to enjoy a relaxing day at the beach. Just as you’re about to unwind, your phone rings: it’s your manager calling to inform you that your IT infrastructure is

We are happy to announce that Ubuntu Pro is now available on Graviton (ARM) instances of all generations. You can now launch or upgrade Ubuntu Graviton instances to Ubuntu Pro on AWS EC2. Why is this good? Ubuntu Pro: Improved Security Coverage Ubuntu Pro enables your company to freely consume third-party open source software without

In April 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released a new functionality that allows users running Ubuntu LTS to upgrade their instances to Ubuntu Pro with just a few clicks. This upgrade provides additional security features, including patching for universe packages, extended security management for an additional five years, live kernel pat