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The cybersecurity world has changed. Thanks to spreading risk of cyber attacks, malware, ransomware, and the intensifying pressure of new cybersecurity regulations and sky-high penalties for leaks and breaches, robust Application Security (AppSec) is non-negotiable. In this blog, you’ll learn how you can meet these challenges head on, and secure your operations and systems by focusing on the most fundamental aspects of your security posture.

The landscape of artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, demanding robust and scalable infrastructure. To meet these challenges, we’ve developed a comprehensive reference architecture (RA) that leverages the power of open-source tools and cutting-edge hardware.

We’re pleased to release Ubuntu Security Guide profiles for CIS benchmarks. These profiles will allow customers to automatically harden and audit their Ubuntu 24.04 LTS systems, in conformance with the benchmarks.

The world of edge AI is rapidly transforming how devices and data centers work together. Imagine healthcare tools powered by AI, or self-driving vehicles making real-time decisions. These advancements rely on bringing AI directly to edge devices. However, building a robust architecture for diverse edge environments presents significant hurdles. This blog introduces our new reference architecture, designed to simplify edge AI deployment.

The landscape of generative AI is rapidly evolving, and building robust, scalable large language model (LLM) applications is becoming a critical need for many organizations. Canonical, in collaboration with NVIDIA, is excited to introduce a reference architecture designed to streamline and optimize the creation of powerful LLM chatbots. This solution leverages the latest NVIDIA AI technology, offering a production-ready AI pipeline built on Kubernetes.

Observability is critical for web operations to ensure that the application is working as expected and to identify any potential issues. However, setting up observability has traditionally been challenging because it can take hours to set up all the infrastructure, instrument your code and enable observability in production. But now there is a better way using native support for Django in Charmcraft and Rockcraft which has observability built in and ready to go!

Not to be confused with the titular Linux mascot and seabird cousin, the penguin, puffins are another distinctively colorful and whimsical nautical avian. Over the centuries, these beaky birds have been given numerous nicknames and monikers like the “sea parrot” and the harlequinesque appearance of their facial feathers has earned them the distinction of “Clown of the Sea”.

Kubeflow is a cloud-native, open source machine learning operations (MLOps) platform designed for developing and deploying ML models on Kubernetes. Kubeflow helps data scientists and machine learning engineers run the entire ML lifecycle within one tool. Charmed Kubeflow is Canonical’s official distribution of Kubeflow. The key benefits of Charmed Kubeflow include security maintenance of container images, enterprise support, and further tooling integration with Spark, Feast, MLFlow, and others.

Today we are announcing the introduction of Authd support for Google IAM, allowing all Ubuntu users to use their Google account to authenticate to their desktop and servers. The Google broker snap for Authd is available for free on Ubuntu Desktop and Server 24.04 and it works with both personal and Workspace Google accounts.

Deploying FreePBX and Asterisk on a single Ubuntu virtual machine in a public cloud is an ideal solution for personal users and small to medium-sized businesses with voice over IP (VoIP) and fax over IP (FoIP) needs. This setup costs nothing, is scalable and secure, and has daily recovery points with a recovery time measured in minutes.