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Blog posts tagged
"networking"

Benjamin Ryzman
2 April 2025

The future of Kubernetes networking: Cilium and other CNIs with Canonical Kubernetes

Ubuntu Article

Choosing the right Container Network Interface (CNI) for Kubernetes is critical to achieving optimal performance, security, and scalability. With the launch of  Canonical Kubernetes LTS (long-term support) last month, Canonical decided to integrate Cilium as the default CNI in order to reflect our commitment to delivering a modern, securi ...

Benjamin Ryzman
21 June 2024

Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs

AI Article

It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service (MAAS) enables the management and control of smart NICs on top of bare-metal servers. NVIDIA BlueField smart NICs are very high data rate network interface cards providing advanced s ...

Benjamin Ryzman
22 April 2024

Achieving Performant Single-Tenant Cloud Isolation with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers, Ubuntu Core, Snaps, and AMD Pensando Elba Data Processing Unit

Networking Article

Discover how IBM Cloud’s bare metal servers offer highly confined and high-performing single-tenant cloud isolation through the use of Ubuntu Core and Snaps, supported by the AMD Pensando Elba DPU (Data Processing Unit). This setup enables the creation of secure and efficient environments for each tenant. Its design ensures the total sepa ...

Lukas Märdian
5 April 2024

Introducing Netplan v1.0 – stable, declarative network management

Cloud and server Article

After more than 7 years of development, Netplan v1.0 delivers improved stability and maintainability alongside a host of other new features. ...

Shashank Balashankar
19 March 2024

Canonical collaborates with NVIDIA to simplify enterprise AI deployments with NVIDIA BlueField-3 operating an optimised, Ubuntu-based Linux OS 

Networking Article

The NVIDIA BlueField-3 networking platform – powering the latest data processing units (DPUs) and SuperNICs, and transforming data centre performance and efficiency – runs BlueField OS, an optimised Linux operating system (OS) derived from Ubuntu. With Ubuntu’s signature maintenance and support guarantees, the comprehensive Ubuntu Pro sof ...

Lukas Märdian
14 November 2023

Netplan brings consistent network configuration across Desktop, Server, Cloud and IoT

Cloud and server Article

Learn how Netplan has established itself as the proven network stack across all variants of Ubuntu – Server, Cloud, Embedded and now Desktop. ...

Serdar Vural
11 October 2023

SmartNICs in telco: benefits and use cases

Cloud and server Article

In our previous blog, we introduced smartNICs as technology enablers for next-generation converged data centres. We covered how smartNICs can increase efficiency and drive return on investment. In this blog post, we explain how this innovative technology can help the telecom industry. SmartNICs use cases for the telecom sector are still e ...

Shashank Balashankar
13 June 2023

Canonical solutions reduce SmartNIC time-to-market and drive efficiency in enterprise data centres

Networking Article

Data centre efficiency is a central cost factor in enterprise IT environments. So, in the face of rising energy costs and increasingly resource-intensive workloads, it is more important than ever for businesses to seek out greater optimisation. Traditionally, CPUs have been used for the majority of data centre workloads, including network ...

Felicia Jia
6 June 2023

Meet Canonical at SmartNICs Summit 2023

Networking Article

SmartNICs, the programmable network adapters that make data centre networking, security and storage efficient, scalable and modular, have started to play a significant role in the industry. Combining traditional NIC capabilities with advanced processing power, smartNICs allow many infrastructure capabilities to be offloaded from CPU, thus ...

Tytus Kurek
23 April 2021

Ubuntu Server 21.04:

What’s new?

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu Server 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) brings significant improvements to automation and stability fronts with new extensions to the Ubuntu Server Live Installer and phased updates in the Advanced Package Tool (APT). In addition, the latest development cycle includes improved enterprise applications availability with native support for Micro ...

Canonical
5 October 2020

NVIDIA’s Ariel Kit Explains How NVIDIA BlueField DPUs Are Redefining Data Center Services

Ubuntu Article

NVIDIA is redefining the data center around the concept of data processing units (DPUs): powerful network cards running Ubuntu out of the box that combine hardware and software to deliver new classes of cloud architectures – in the data center and at the edge.  Whether for private clouds, edge computing or data center technologies, we ...

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
10 July 2017

Netplan by default in 17.10

Ubuntu Article

Recently, I uploaded an updated nplan package (version 0.24) to change its Priority: field to important, as well as an update of ubuntu-meta (following a seeds update), to replace ifupdown with nplan in the minimal seed. What this means concretely is that nplan should now be installed by default on all images, part of ubuntu-minimal, ...

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