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How to manage Ubuntu fleets using on-premises Active Directory and ADSys
By Massimiliano Gori, 31 March 2026
The “hybrid fleet” is today’s reality: organizations diversify operating systems while Microsoft Active Directory (AD) remains the dominant identity “source...
How to Harden Ubuntu SSH: From static keys to cloud identity
By Massimiliano Gori, 30 March 2026
30 years after its introduction, Secure Shell (SSH) remains the ubiquitous gateway for administration, making it a primary target for brute force attacks and...
Modern Linux identity management: from local auth to the cloud with Ubuntu
By Massimiliano Gori, 27 March 2026
The modern enterprise operates in a hybrid world where on-premises infrastructure coexists with cloud services, and security threats evolve daily. IT...
Canonical joins the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member
By Canonical, 23 March 2026
Canonical’s Gold-level investment in the Rust Foundation supports the long-term health of the Rust programming language and highlights its growing role in...
Supporting more identity providers on Ubuntu with the new Authd OIDC broker
By Massimiliano Gori, 2 March 2026
Today we are announcing the general availability of the new generic OpenID Connect (OIDC) broker for Authd. With enterprises needing to centralise access...
Unmasking the Resolute Raccoon
By Aaron Prisk, 26 February 2026
You’ve almost certainly seen them… In the forest, rummaging through a dumpster, in poorly aging millennial memes. Raccoons are ubiquitous and endlessly...
A journey of a thousand smiles: Questing Quokka
By Aaron Prisk, 18 August 2025
Embarking on a quest can be serious business – whether you’re going off on a family holiday or traveling the hills of Britain in search of the holy grail, our...
Source to production: Spring Boot containers made easy
By Massimiliano Gori, 2 July 2025
This blog is contributed by Pushkar Kulkarni, a Software Engineer at Canonical. Building on the rise in popularity of Spring Boot and the 12 factor paradigm,...
Spring support available on Ubuntu
By Massimiliano Gori, 2 July 2025
This blog is contributed by Vladimir Petko, a Software Engineer at Canonical. The release of Plucky Puffin earlier this year introduced the availability of...
Chiseled Ubuntu containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21
By Canonical, 1 July 2025
Today we are announcing chiseled containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21 (Open Java Runtime Environment), coming from the OpenJDK project. These images are highly...
Introducing Canonical builds of OpenJDK
By Canonical, 1 July 2025
Java has long been the most popular language for software development in large enterprises, with 90% of Fortune 500 companies using it for backend...