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9 posts from July 2021
Running FIPS 140 workloads on Ubuntu
By Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 26 July 2021
This is the first article in a two-article series regarding FIPS 140 and Ubuntu. The first part of this series, this article, covers running FIPS 140...
How to test the latest Kubernetes 1.22 release candidate with MicroK8s
By Alex Chalkias, 21 July 2021
Today, the Kubernetes community made the 1.22 release candidate available, a few weeks ahead of general availability, planned for August the 4th. We invite...
How to cache snap downloads and save bandwidth
By Igor Ljubuncic, 14 July 2021
For many people, fast broadband connection and unlimited data are a reality. For others, they are not. If you have several Linux hosts in your (home)...
Ubuntu becomes #1 OS for OpenStack deployment
By Tytus Kurek, 13 July 2021
One of the core values of Canonical, that we all identify with, is the mission of bringing the power of open source to everyone on the planet. From developing...
Linux kernel Livepatching
By Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 9 July 2021
Ubuntu Livepatch is the service and the software that enables organizations to quickly patch vulnerabilities on the Ubuntu Linux kernels. Livepatch provides...
DHCP Server Conflict Detection
By Bill Wear, 8 July 2021
This blog title should really be, “Why you always, always, always want conflict detection turned on on all the networks MAAS touches,” but that’s really long...
DHCP scope
By Bill Wear, 8 July 2021
It’s possible to have more than one DHCP server on the same network and still have everything work right, with no conflicts and no dropped packets or IP...
Moving toward Diátaxis
By Bill Wear, 7 July 2021
We discovered the Diátaxis Framework earlier this year. It’s been on our roadmap to shift MAAS doc to this cool new way of explaining things. This cycle, we...
MAAS 3.0 released
By Bill Wear, 6 July 2021
We are happy to announce the release of MAAS 3.0. This release provides some new features and bug fixes. Here’s the tl;dr summary: PCI and USB devices are now...