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Spectre mitigation updates available for testing in Ubuntu Proposed
By Dustin Kirkland, 17 January 2018
Canonical holds Ubuntu to the highest standards of security and quality. This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for...
LXD weekly status #30
By Stéphane Graber, 16 January 2018
Introduction The main highlight for this week was the inclusion of the new proxy device in LXD, thanks to the hard work of some University of Texas...
Monitor your Kubernetes Cluster
By Kevin W Monroe, 16 January 2018
This article originally appeared on Kevin Monroe’s blog Keeping an eye on logs and metrics is a necessary evil for cluster admins. The benefits are clear:...
Meltdown and Spectre Status Update
By Dean Henrichsmeyer, 12 January 2018
On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 we released Ubuntu kernel updates for mitigation of CVE-2017-5754 (aka Meltdown / Variant 3) for the x86-64 architecture. Releases...
Ubuntu Server development summary – 9 January 2018
By David Britton, 9 January 2018
Hello Ubuntu Server! The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team....
LXD weekly status #29
By Stéphane Graber, 8 January 2018
Introduction And we’re back from the holidays! This “weekly” summary is covering everything that happened the past 3 weeks. The big highlight was the release...
Announcing the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition 9370 with Ubuntu
By Canonical, 5 January 2018
We’re excited to see Dell announce the availability of the 7th gen XPS 13 Developer Edition (9370) which comes preloaded with Ubuntu. Canonical have been part...
Ubuntu Updates for the Meltdown / Spectre Vulnerabilities
By Dustin Kirkland, 4 January 2018
For up-to-date patch, package, and USN links, please refer to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown Unfortunately, you’ve...
Accessing the Juju CLI from within the GUI
By Madison Scott-Clary (Makyo), 3 January 2018
In the Juju GUI 2.11.1 release, we are excited to bring a new feature we’ve been working on for a while now: the shell in the GUI. The GUI is a powerful tool,...
Keynote: Maximizing developer velocity with containers
By James Donner, 21 December 2017
Containers are one of the most exciting technologies in the cloud right now. But when it comes to your IT strategy, where is the best place to start? With...
Security Team Weekly Summary: December 21, 2017
By Canonical, 21 December 2017
The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security...