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Deploying secure AI: Canonical + SpectroCloud for federal missions

As mission requirements evolve, federal agencies and defense teams need infrastructure supporting AI/ML workloads anywhere, from secure cloud environments to disconnected edge locations. In this fireside chat, Mark Lewis (VP, Application Services at Canonical) and William Crum (Senior Defense Success Engineer at SpectroCloud) discuss how their organizations are helping federal customers deploy secure, scalable, and consistent Kubernetes and AI infrastructure across hybrid and edge environments.

Elasticsearch with Python: A Detailed Guide to Search and Analytics

If you’re using Python for search, log aggregation, or analytics, you’ve probably worked with Elasticsearch. It’s fast, scalable, and fairly complex once you go beyond the basics. The official Python client gives you raw access to Elasticsearch’s REST API. But getting it to work the way you want, especially under load, can be tricky. This blog walks through practical ways to index, query, and monitor Elasticsearch from Python code, without getting lost in the docs.

ITOps vs DevOps: Understanding Their Roles in Modern IT Environments

The conversation around ITOps vs DevOps continues as organizations pursue agile development and responsive service delivery. While both practices share the goal of improving software and infrastructure management, they emerge from distinct historical, operational, and cultural backgrounds. Understanding how these models differ at their core helps decision-makers choose the most suitable operating strategy and align their teams for smoother collaboration.

OWASP CI/CD Part 9: Improper Artifact Integrity Validation

Improper artifact integrity validation is a critical vulnerability in CI/CD pipelines characterised by insufficient mechanisms to cryptographically verify the authenticity and integrity of code and build artifacts traversing the pipeline. When these controls are weak or absent, adversaries with access to any pipeline stage can inject malicious or tampered artifacts that appear legitimate, enabling undetected propagation through the pipeline and eventual deployment into production environments.

Canonical announces Charmed Feast: A production-grade feature store for your open source MLOps stack

July 10, 2025: Today, Canonical announced the release of Charmed Feast, an enterprise solution for feature management with seamless integration with Charmed Kubeflow, Canonical’s distribution of the popular open source MLOps platform. Charmed Feast provides the full breadth of the upstream Feast capabilities, adding multi-cloud capabilities, and comprehensive support.