Cloud and server archives
8 posts from September 2021
Bare metal cloud support for Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 LTS
By Anton Smith, 24 September 2021
Now that Canonical is prolonging the lifecycle of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’ and 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ to a total of ten years, it’s a good time to...
Managing Livepatch on-prem
By Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 13 September 2021
Ubuntu Livepatch is the service and the software that enables organizations to quickly patch vulnerabilities on the Linux kernel. It enables uninterrupted...
KVM hypervisor: a beginners’ guide
By Tytus Kurek, 8 September 2021
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the leading open source virtualisation technology for Linux. It installs natively on all Linux distributions and turns...
Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines: What, why, and how
By Alex Chalkias, 7 September 2021
Who is this for? This blog can provide you with useful information on how to set up a Kubernetes CI/CD workflow using state-of-the-art of open source DevOps...
Commissioning deployed machines: Request granted
By Bill Wear, 2 September 2021
We want to make it possible to deploy MAAS in an existing datacenter, and have it keep track of machines that already have a deployed workload — without...
How Kubernetes 1.22 addresses industry needs
By Alex Chalkias, 2 September 2021
On August 4th 2021, Kubernetes (K8s) upstream announced the general availability of Kubernetes 1.22, the latest version of the most popular container...
Where configuration management falls short: model-driven OpenStack
By Tytus Kurek, 2 September 2021
Have you ever installed OpenStack from scratch? I know, it sounds geeky, unnecessary and maybe even overcomplicated … It is after all 2021, OpenStack is...
Cybersecurity with Ubuntu
By Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 1 September 2021
The cybersecurity state of affairs can be described as too complex today. There is an enormous number of threats endangering sensitive data for the average IT...