Blog posts tagged "containers"

Containerization vs. Virtualization : understand the differences

Containerization vs. Virtualization : understand the differences and benefits of each approach, as well as connections to cloud computing.

DIY chiselled Ubuntu: crafting your own chiselled Ubuntu base image

In a previous post, I explained how we made our Ubuntu image 15 times smaller by chiselling a specific slice of Ubuntu for .NET developers. In this blog, I...

Chiselled Ubuntu containers: the benefits of combining Distroless and Ubuntu

Last August, we announced 6 MB-size Ubuntu base images designed for self-contained .NET applications — we called them “chiselled Ubuntu”. How did we make our...

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: the perfect present for your containerised and cloud applications

As we enter the holiday season, online shopping and payment systems are gearing up for higher traffic and workloads. Ensuring that these applications can...

Canonical at AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community. The in-person event features keynote...

Why Enterprises Choose Canonical Ubuntu on AWS

Canonical is excited to partner with AWS and feature on this week’s episode of AWS on Air. Watch us live on September 16, at 12pm PT. As the publisher of the...

Microsoft and Canonical announce native .NET availability in Ubuntu 22.04 hosts and containers

.NET developers are now able to install the ASP.NET and .NET SDK and runtimes from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with a single “apt install” command Canonical releases...

Canonical at the Open Source Summit North America 2022

The heart of open source will be beating in Austin and streamed online for the Open Source Summit North America, taking place on 20-25 June 2022. Open Source...

Create FIPS-enabled Ubuntu container images with 10-year security updates

Canonical’s UA and Pro customers can now fully benefit from their subscriptions directly in containerised environments and pipelines. The new UA client...

What are Linux containers?

This blog explains what are Linux containers, how they differ from application containers, and when should you use them.

OpenStack is dead? The numbers speak for themselves.

Austin, Texas – 3rd of March 2022 – OpenStack is dead! A masked man in a black cloak with “public clouds”, “containers” and ”serverless” inscriptions shot...

Building and running FIPS containers on Ubuntu 18.04

Build and run Ubuntu containers that comply with the US and Canada government FIPS140-2 data protection standard.

Kubernetes for Finservs – Unlocking success in digital transformations

The global health crisis has accelerated the digital transformation within the financial services industry. A McKinsey report highlights that “In a...

Application composability – a cloud computing perspective

Let’s remember the time in the 2000s when companies introduced their cloud computing offerings at a large scale. New services were put into the popular IaaS,...

Kubernetes infographic: usage of cloud native technology in 2021

2021 has been an interesting year for the Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystem.  Due to the pandemic, cloud adoption saw a big spike in adoption. As the year...