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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
26 July 2021

Running FIPS 140 workloads on Ubuntu

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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, is covering the development of FIPS applications on Ubuntu. What is FIPS and why do I need it? Even though cryptography is ...

Bill Wear
8 July 2021

DHCP Server Conflict Detection

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Bill Wear
8 July 2021

DHCP scope

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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. ...

Bill Wear
7 July 2021

Moving toward Diátaxis

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Bill Wear
6 July 2021

MAAS 3.0 released

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

We are happy to announce the release of MAAS 3.0. This release provides some new features and bug fixes. Here’s the tl;dr summary: PCI and USB devices are now modelled in MAAS PCI and USB device tabs are now available in machine details IBM Z DPM partitions are supported for MAAS and virtual machines Proxmox ...

Bill Wear
17 June 2021

Basic DHCP concepts

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Let’s step back and take a very basic look at DHCP. In fact, let’s look at the analogy of assigning a street address to your house. Usually, this is done by the local 911 dispatch office, or some other central authority. They typically use either a survey map or a latitude, longitude pair to locate ...

Canonical
28 May 2021

How to run ECS Anywhere workloads using Ubuntu on any infrastructure

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Using Ubuntu for your ECS clusters on-prem or elsewhere will allow you to run your ECS Anywhere workloads with optimal performance everywhere you need it. ...

Joshua Powers
18 February 2021

Ubuntu EKS Platform Images for k8s 1.19

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This article originally appeared on Cody Shepherd’s blog. 1.19 Platform Images Now Live Following the GA of Kubernetes 1.19 support in AWS, EKS-optimized Ubuntu images for 1.19 node groups have been released. The ami-id of this image for each region can be found on the official site for Ubuntu EKS images. Like the 1.18 platform ...

Alex Murray
1 February 2021

Private home directories for Ubuntu 21.04

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu has evolved a lot since its early beginnings as an easier-to-use derivative of Debian that catered primarily to the nascent Linux desktop market. Today Ubuntu is deployed beyond just your laptops at home and in the office.  Nowadays you are more likely to find Ubuntu in the cloud, powering some of the world’s best ...

Bill Wear
6 January 2021

Improving CLI output with jq

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Welcome back to our series on MAAS CLI operations. In our previous post, we learned how to acquire and deploy machines using the MAAS CLI. It was also evident that the JSON output from the allocate and deploy commands was very lengthy for even one machine — so you can imagine how large a list ...

Bill Wear
10 December 2020

MAAS 2.9 is now available

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical is happy to announce that MAAS 2.9 is now available. We’ll get to the details of installing it in just a moment, but first, let’s walk through a brief overview of the new features and fixes. Later on in this post, we’ll cover some of these features in much more detail. New features & ...

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