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Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu Pro"


Canonical
11 November 2025

Canonical releases FIPS-enabled Kubernetes

Canonical announcements Article

Today at KubeCon North America, Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, released support to enable FIPS mode in its Kubernetes distribution, providing everything needed to create and manage a scalable cluster suitable for high-security and Federal deployments. ...


Ishani Ghoshal
11 September 2025

What our users make with Ubuntu Pro – Episode 2

Ubuntu Article

How Vaultara achieved FedRAMP compliance with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu Pro helps businesses worldwide to innovate and shape the future. In this edition of What our users make with Pro, we talk to Dave Monk, CTO of Vaultara, a FedRAMP approved data-sharing platform trusted by the US government. Dave shares how Ubuntu Pro became a cornerstone ...


Matthew de Klerk
10 September 2025

What are dependencies, and how do you secure them?

Security Article

There are thousands of free-to-use, ready-built programs and code repositories that solve  problems you’d otherwise need to spend weeks building the solutions for from scratch. However, like with all software, you still need to ensure that your software supply chain is secure and safe to consume. ...


Lidia Luna Puerta
3 September 2025

54% of European enterprises want long term open source support: how Ubuntu Pro + Support delivers

Ubuntu Article

Europe’s open source ecosystem is at a turning point. The Linux Foundation’s Open Source as Europe’s Strategic Advantage: Trends, Barriers, and Priorities for the European Open Source Community amid Regulatory and Geopolitical Shifts report shows organizations across the continent are broadly adopting open source software (OSS). But adopt ...


Lidia Luna Puerta
1 September 2025

What dedicated Linux support specialists do

Ubuntu Article

How real companies have used dedicated Linux support specialists to thrive Nearly a third of IT leaders say lack of expertise is the biggest obstacle they face in managing their open source environments. It’s a problem that slows progress, increases risk, and makes it tough for organizations to unlock the full value of technologies like ...


Lidia Luna Puerta
14 July 2025

What is Linux Support?

Ubuntu Article

In the world of enterprise IT, “support” can mean many things. For some, it’s a safety net – insurance for the day something breaks. For others, it’s the difference between a minor hiccup and a full-scale outage. At Canonical, it means a simple, comprehensive subscription that takes care of everything, so that everything you build ...


Ishani Ghoshal
8 July 2025

What our users make with Ubuntu Pro – Episode 1

Ubuntu Article

Secure homelabs – and more – for the entire family Ubuntu Pro isn’t just for enterprises – it’s for the passionate community that powers and supports open source every day. From secure remote access to homelab hardening, Ubuntu Pro helps users get more from their systems, whether at work or at home. In this series, ...


Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Source to production: Spring Boot containers made easy

Cloud and server Article

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, our Java offering also includes a way to package Spring workloads in production grade, minimal, well organized containers with a single command. This way, any developer can generate ...


Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Spring support available on Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

This blog is contributed by Vladimir Petko, a Software Engineer at Canonical. The release of Plucky Puffin earlier this year introduced the availability of the devpack for Spring, a new snap that streamlines the setup of developer environments for Spring on Ubuntu. In this blog, we’ll explain what devpacks are and provide an overview of ...


Canonical
1 July 2025

Chiseled Ubuntu containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21

Cloud and server Article

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 optimized for size and security, containing only the dependencies that are strictly necessary. They are available for both AMD64 and ARM64 architectures and benefit from 12 years of ...


Canonical
1 July 2025

Introducing Canonical builds of OpenJDK

Canonical announcements Article

Java has long been the most popular language for software development in large enterprises, with 90% of Fortune 500 companies using it for backend development, particularly in industries like finance, healthcare, and government.  Java developers, more than most, are tasked with balancing the implementation of new features against the crit ...