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  FIPS 140-2 certification for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS!
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  Ubuntu, the world’s most popular operating system across private and public clouds has received the FIPS 140-2, Level 1 certification for its cryptographic modules in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, including OpenSSL 1.1.1. This certification is built on Canonical’s track record in designing Ubuntu for high security and regulated workloads. The FIPS 140-2 modules on Ubuntu 20.04 […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/fips-certification-ubuntu-20-04-lts
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  Building the bank of the future, today
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  Open source in Banking Banking is at a pivotal moment. New regulations like virtual banking licensing frameworks, advances in open banking and big techs rapidly gaining ground in financial services, are dramatically changing the banking landscape, forcing incumbents to reinvent themselves. To be successful, the bank of the future will need to embrace emerging technologies, […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/building-the-bank-of-the-future-today
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  Design and Web team summary – 30 July 2021
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  The Web & design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team My name is Scott Mason-Nash, and I’m a web engineer. I joined Canonical’s web and design team […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/design-and-web-team-summary-30-july-2021
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  UbuntuOnAir update
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  It’s been a couple of months since we restarted UbuntuOnAir. We had a few ideas, and lots of aspirations, but we wanted to be realistic and work our way up. You can read about why we brought it back and why we didn’t use the more mainstream channel “Celebrate Ubuntu” elsewhere. Here I talk about […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntuonair-update
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  Model-driven observability: modern monitoring with Juju
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  Learn how you can drastically simplify the monitoring setup for systems, reduce its ongoing maintenance costs and increase the actionability of your insights with Juju.

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/model-driven-observability-part-1
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  From notebooks to pipelines with Kubeflow KALE
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  What is Kubeflow? Kubeflow is the open-source machine learning toolkit on top of Kubernetes. Kubeflow translates steps in your data science workflow into Kubernetes jobs, providing the cloud-native interface for your ML libraries, frameworks, pipelines and notebooks. Read more about Kubeflow Notebooks in Kubeflow Within the Kubeflow dashboard, data scientists can spin up notebook servers […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/kubeflow-kale
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  Running FIPS 140 workloads on Ubuntu
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  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 applications on Ubuntu while the second part, will be covering the development of FIPS applications on Ubuntu. What is FIPS and why do I need it? Even though cryptography […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/running-fips-140-workloads-on-ubuntu
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  The State of Robotics – June 2021
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  June was packed with interesting news. So this monthly blog won’t disappoint our readers. If you haven’t seen it already, we are running a content survey. It will take you 7 minutes to complete and it will help us create the content that you want to read. So if you haven’t done it yet, here […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-state-of-robotics-june-2021
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  Design and Web team summary – 16 July 2021
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  The web team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  mir-server.io rebuild with a brand new tutorial […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/design-and-web-team-summary-16-july-2021
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  Ubuntu in the wild – 22nd of July
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  The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-in-the-wild-12
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  How to test the latest Kubernetes 1.22 release candidate with MicroK8s
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  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 developers, platform engineers and cloud tech enthusiasts to experiment with the new features, report back findings and bugs. MicroK8s is the easiest way to get up and running with the latest […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-to-test-the-latest-kubernetes-with-microk8s
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  Why Ubuntu Certification Matters for AIoT
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  DFI is the world’s first industrial computer manufacturer to join the Ubuntu IoT Hardware Certification Partner Program. Three DFI products have been certified recently, which means you will have an out-of-box experience, secure, faster time to market with DFI products and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is preloaded on the certified devices, and Canonical provides 10 years of […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/why-ubuntu-certification-matters-for-aiot
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  How to cache snap downloads and save bandwidth
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  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) environment, and you’re using snaps, each of these systems will separately communicate with the Snap Store and periodically download necessary updates. This can be costly in terms of inbound […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-to-cache-snap-downloads-and-save-bandwidth
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  Ubuntu becomes #1 OS for OpenStack deployment
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  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 to developed countries. From individuals to big enterprises. From engineers to CEOs. And there is only one way to find out if we are efficient in […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-becomes-number-one-os-for-openstack-deployment
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  Linux kernel Livepatching
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  Canonical livepatch is the service and the software that enables organizations to quickly patch vulnerabilities on the Ubuntu Linux kernels. Livepatch provides uninterrupted service while reducing fire drills during high and critical severity kernel vulnerabilities. It is a complex technology and the details can be confusing, so in this post we provide a high level […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/linux-kernel-livepatching
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  DHCP Server Conflict Detection
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  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 as a title. But hear me out. As promised, here is another DHCP blog, this time explaining how you can have multiple DHCP servers on the same subnet, serving […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/dhcp-server-conflict-detection
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  DHCP scope
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  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 requests. It’s really not that hard to pull together, either, but there are some things to know, and some things to consider before we investigate that situation. […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/dhcp-scope
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  Canonical recognized as a 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year finalist
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  LONDON — July 8, 2021 — Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, today announced it has been named a finalist for a 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. Canonical and […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-recognized-as-a-2021-microsoft-partner-of-the-year-finalist
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  Design and Web team summary – 2 July 2021
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  The web team at Canonical runs two-week iterations building and maintaining all of Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Web The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.  Security certification docs If you were not […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/design-and-web-team-summary-2-july-2021
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  Moving toward Diátaxis
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  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 plan to make it happen. You’d think it would be obvious…. Diátaxis is one of those ideas. Once you see it, you can’t figure out why everybody […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/moving-toward-diataxis