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Ubuntu Pro in-place upgrades for Virtual Machine Scale Sets on Azure

You can now upgrade Ubuntu Server Virtual Machine Scale Sets on Azure to Ubuntu Pro without rebuilding the set. Your instances keep serving traffic. The change is a license update, not a new image. Users could already perform in-place upgrades to Ubuntu Pro for individual VMs. Now, we’re extending the feature to scale sets – groups of load balanced virtual machines that you can manage as a single unit.

How we create a Canonical Academy exam

Open source provides the world with access to cutting-edge software, and the learning that comes with it. But how do you validate someone’s skills in an open ecosystem? Canonical Academy is a highly rigorous, job-focused qualification platform designed to empower individuals and enterprises with industry-recognized credentials. The platform addresses a critical gap in tech: validating real-world, hands-on capability rather than rote memorization.

Surviving the uncharted: when dedicated OpenStack expertise is your best ally in disaster recovery

Some support cases are routine. Others take you off the documented path entirely, into territory where the only way forward is deep, hands on open source expertise. This series looks at how Canonical Support navigates the unexpected: cases where standard playbooks aren’t enough, and a support engineer helps a customer find a solution in real time. This is one of those cases.

AI harnesses for telco autonomous networks

Across the global landscape, telecommunications operators have already deployed machine learning for predictive maintenance, customer care chatbots, and anomaly detection. However, as the industry transitions toward Autonomous Networks Level 4 (AN L4), where networks can make intent-driven, predictive decisions and perform closed-loop management with minimal human intervention, a fundamental architectural challenge has emerged.

Canonical joins the Open Secure AI Alliance

Canonical is now part of the Open Secure AI Alliance, announced by NVIDIA with partners across cloud computing, cybersecurity, enterprise software, open source foundations, and AI research. The alliance aims to develop and share open technologies, techniques, and tools to safeguard software and agents in the age of AI.

Open source for Europe's space missions

Every space mission begins long before launch day. Ideas become spacecraft. Thousands of decisions are made before a single engine ignites. The European Space Agency (ESA) knows what that journey looks like. As the agency prepares to increase the missions it supports by 2030, it is laying the groundwork for decades of future exploration. Working with Canonical, ESA is building a common platform for mission operations based on open source. Kubernetes, Ceph, PostgreSQL, and Kafka form ESA’s infrastructure foundation.