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Trusted open source for everyone

Since 2004, Canonical has worked closely with the open source community to deliver Ubuntu, the most popular OS in the public cloud, known for its reliability and ease of use. Today, Canonical extends the principles behind Ubuntu to a wider portfolio of open source products. Our footprint spans from the smallest devices to the largest clouds and from the kernel to data fabric and AI solutions. With customers that include top tech brands, emerging startups, governments and home users, Canonical delivers trusted open source for everyone.

Captains Log: A first look at our architecture for Signals

Welcome to the first Signals Captain’s Log! My name is Robert, and I’m a recovering on-call engineer and the CEO of FireHydrant. When we started our journey of building Signals, a viable replacement for PagerDuty, OpsGenie, etc, we decided very early that we would tell everyone what makes Signals unique, and what better way than to tell you how we’re building it (without revealing too much 😉). Let’s jump in.

Solving Common System Center Orchestrator Problems

Sometimes, when building Runbooks in Orchestrator, it can feel like you’ve hit a dead end with no way to achieve the functionality or automation you require. For newer users, Orchestrator can be daunting because it is a completely blank canvas; there are no sample runbooks included or out-of-the-box automations. In addition, with a shift in focus to cloud automation, there is limited guidance and ‘how to’ advice available to help users.

Monitoring and Diagnosing AVD

In this overview video, we'll be walking you through monitoring and diagnosing Azure Virtual Desktop utilizing CloudReady Synthetics and Service Watch. With a large number of organizations moving towards virtual desktops for end users, it is critical to have the right monitoring in place. Performance issues and outages can greatly impact the end user productivity and cause frustration due to a poor user experience.

Security Webinar: Navigating the Zero Trust Journey for Today's Everywhere Workplace

Ivanti finds, heals, and protects every device, everywhere – automatically. Whether your team is down the hall or spread around the globe, Ivanti makes it easy and secure for them to do what they do best. Ivanti is IT for the way we work now. Integrated solutions for everything IT touches. So, employees can work better, anywhere, and everywhere.

Git leaks, FTW

Stop committing code without automatically scanning for secrets. This tip walks you through git leaks, a useful little utility in every dev's toolbelt. Give Sleuth a try and see how we give teams actionable insights on how to improve with no-code automations to instantly ship improvements, and metrics to measure their impact — all in a way that both managers and developers love.

A Year in Review - And What's in Store For InvGate in 2024

We come to the close of yet another year, and as every year we take stock of our triumphs and learnings. The rapid pace at which 2023 has unfolded is almost surreal, like it went by too quickly but at the same time left a huge amount of lessons and accomplishments. As I pause to reflect on this transformative year for InvGate, a sense of immense pride and optimistic anticipation for the future washes over. Indeed, 2023 has been a remarkable year for InvGate.

Azure Service Bus Monitoring and Alerting

Microsoft Azure offers a cloud-based messaging service called Azure Service Bus. The goal is to streamline communication between disparate components or applications, regardless of whether they are distributed across multiple environments and locations or operating on the same Azure platform. With Azure Service Bus, you can develop distributed systems that are scalable, reliable, and decoupled.