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Blog posts tagged "Microsoft Azure"

Ubuntu Snapshots on Microsoft Azure: Ensuring predictability and consistency in cloud deployments

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.

Introducing Confidential VMs on Ubuntu Pro for Azure

Unlock unparalleled security for your Azure-based enterprise workloads with the integration of Ubuntu Pro and Confidential VMs. Benefit from 10-year ESM, Kernel Livepatch, and runtime data encryption for a robust, full-spectrum security solution.

Announcing In-Place Upgrade from Ubuntu Server to Ubuntu Pro on Azure

Seamlessly upgrade from Ubuntu Server to Ubuntu Pro on Azure without downtime. Explore advanced security, compliance, and long-term support features. Enhance your enterprise functionality and optimize your cloud journey with Ubuntu Pro.

Enhancing the Ubuntu Experience on Azure: Introducing Ubuntu Pro Updates Awareness

Canonical integrates Ubuntu Pro update awareness into Azure, highlighting additional updates including extended security maintenance for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This feature helps identify Ubuntu instances lacking security updates, offering a solution through Ubuntu Pro subscription, enhancing the security of Ubuntu on Azure.

Cloud computing security and compliance with Ubuntu Pro

Cloud computing security coverage for the operating system and the entire collection of software packages for 10 years with Ubuntu.

See for yourself: the benefits of chiselled Ubuntu images in action with an ASP.NET shop demo

Looking for a way to improve the performance and reliability of your online shopping and payment systems during the holiday season? Look no further than chiselled Ubuntu images! In this blog series, I’ve already discussed the benefits of using these lightweight and efficient images for your containerised applications. In this second part,

Azure pricing explained

Have you ever wondered how Azure pricing actually works? So, you’ve decided to use Azure as your primary cloud platform and want to calculate your infrastructure costs. You estimate them based on listed prices, and rest assured that your startup/project will meet its budget. And then, suddenly, at the end of the month, you receive

Canonical Ubuntu now available on Ampere® Altra® Arm-based Azure virtual machines

Azure-optimised images of the developer-favourite operating system to enter general availability 1 September, with a fully functional preview already live Canonical today announces the general availability of optimised Ubuntu images on Ampere® Altra® Arm-based Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. General availability begins 1 September, with

Ubuntu supports Arm64-based Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Canonical announces an optimized Ubuntu image for the preview of Ampere Altra Arm-based Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. Azure users will benefit from running Ubuntu, the most popular cloud operating system, on a secure, scalable, and highly cost-effective cloud infrastructure. Arm-based architectures are ideal for computing workloads in

Cloud-optimized Linux kernels – what makes Ubuntu the top OS across the clouds

Ubuntu is the platform of choice for deploying and running workloads on public clouds. No other operating system gives you better performance and consistency of experience across public clouds, including Amazon, Azure, Google, IBM and Oracle. There is a reason behind this exceptional experience. By design, Ubuntu images in public clouds i

SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro: bringing it all back home

Not going to lie, the Microsoft SQL Server is my all-time favourite Microsoft product. For a long time, SQL Server was only available for Windows, but not much is really sacred. So now Microsoft, in collaboration with Canonical, are distributing and supporting several flavours of SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro for Azure. I’m going to

Open source enterprise support vs free open source use

Ubuntu and CentOS are both popular examples of open source Linux operating systems adopted because of the breadth of community support, but also because of the availability of enterprise-grade support. However, since the announcement last December, the CentOS project as we knew it, will be discontinued. Many CentOS users are currently loo

Canonical completes Azure Arc Validation Program, helps increase user confidence in Arc enabled production Kubernetes

Microsoft Azure has just announced the details of its new Azure Arc Validation Program, aiming to further increase customer confidence in deploying Arc enabled Kubernetes in production workloads, and at scale. Canonical is one of the Kubernetes distribution providers to participate in the program, by completing conformance tests for one o

Ubuntu at the Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit

Event overview and main themes On June 16th 2020, the Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit will be the occasion to meet and hear from all the communities, entrepreneurs and developers involved in building the future of open source technologies in the cloud. This is an opportunity to explore all the areas where Microsoft and

DataArt’s DeviceHive platform arrives on Azure Marketplace

The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) enables businesses to predict when industrial equipment is going to fail, so that action can be taken beforehand. A leader in this space, DataArt, developed one of the first IoT and big data open sourced platforms, DeviceHive, and published on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. DataArt has collaborate

Ubuntu on Windows Azure gets the Juju magic

September 17th, 2013. Today, Canonical, in cooperation with Microsoft, is announcing that Juju fully supports deploying services on Ubuntu into Windows Azure. This means that Ubuntu users can use Juju with its intuitive GUI to design and deploy sophisticated application infrastructure instantly into Windows Azure. Fresh Ubuntu Certified i