Blog posts tagged "Ubuntu on Azure"
Canonical is working with Microsoft Defender to improve the security of organizations’ mission-critical Linux workloads (March 18, 2026) Today Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, announce a new security initiative with Microsoft Defender, aimed at deeply reinforcing the security offered along with Canonical’s security maintenance servic
Azure’s Update Manager now provides a complete security view for all Ubuntu LTS VMs—18.04, 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04—by showing available updates from Ubuntu Pro’s Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM). This helps identify instances that would benefit from security patching for the Universe repository and continued updates for older LTS relea
As standard support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ends on May 31, 2025, Azure users must choose between upgrading to a newer version or enabling extended security with Ubuntu Pro to ensure continued compliance and protection against vulnerabilities.
Introduction With the recent announcement of the release of Azure IoT Operations, Microsoft has provided its customers with a unified data plane offering significant improvements in node data capture, edge-based telemetry processing, and cloud-ingress. Combining Azure IoT Operations with Ubuntu provides the perfect pairing to build secur
The Canonical team is gearing up for the next big gathering at Microsoft Ignite 2024, which will take place from November 18 – 22, 2024. Get ready to dive deep into the latest conversations that will shape the future of cloud and open-source innovation. Expand and secure your Microsoft Ignite journey with a visit to
Microsoft Azure’s confidential virtual machines, powered by Ubuntu and featuring NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, offer enhanced security for AI workloads. Discover how this technology addresses data privacy concerns in sectors like healthcare, finance, and government while ensuring robust AI performance and regulatory compliance.
Ubuntu recently released a snapshot service to use the archive as it was at a point in history. This article explains how to integrate this into systems management or update tools.
Learn about Confidential AI preview on Azure with Ubuntu confidental VMs and Nvidia H100 GPUs, and explore how confidential computing in the cloud transforms AI security, ensuring utmost confidentiality and integrity for sensitive data and models.
Applying updates across a fleet of multiple Ubuntu instances is a balance of security and service uptime. We explore best practices to maximise stability.
You probably know that it is important to apply security updates. You may not be clear how to do that. We are going to explain best practices for applying Ubuntu updates to single instances and what the built-in unattended-upgrades tool does and does not do.
Building stable and secure software requires understanding build systems and having a plan for vulnerabilities in your software dependencies.
The LTS philosophy, releases, updates and repositories explained Since we launched Ubuntu Pro’s Expanded Security Maintenance for additional packages, and we now integrate more closely with public cloud update management tools, more people have been asking us about the Ubuntu archive and how this is divided and security patched. In this b
This is the third blog from a series focusing on how public clouds meet telecommunication operators’ business demands. In the previous two blogs, we talked about how Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform have enabled telcos to run critical workloads on public clouds. In this last part of our series, you’ll hear about