Blog posts tagged "Server"

CIS benchmark compliance: Introducing the Ubuntu Security Guide

The CIS benchmark has hundreds of configuration recommendations, so hardening and auditing a Linux system manually can be very tedious. Every administrator of...

Linux deployment tools: MAAS 3.1 for hot metal

Back a few months ago, we did a feature poll on our MAAS forum, and the most-requested new feature turned out to be “Recommission/rescan a machine after it...

Announcing MAAS 3.1: bare metal cloud gets easier

We are happy to announce that MAAS 3.1 has been released. Bare metal provisioning just got even easier! MAAS 3.1 brings some of the most frequently-requested...

Ubuntu Server 21.10: What’s new?

Ubuntu Server 21.10 (Impish Indri) expands on edge use cases with a minimised system installation option in the Ubuntu Server Live Installer, and native,...

KVM hypervisor: a beginners’ guide

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the leading open source virtualisation technology for Linux. It installs natively on all Linux distributions and turns...

Commissioning deployed machines: Request granted

We want to make it possible to deploy MAAS in an existing datacenter, and have it keep track of machines that already have a deployed workload — without...

Running FIPS 140 workloads on Ubuntu

This is the first article in a two-article series regarding FIPS 140 and Ubuntu. The first part of this series, this article, covers running FIPS 140...

DHCP Server Conflict Detection

This blog title should really be, “Why you always, always, always want conflict detection turned on on all the networks MAAS touches,” but that’s really long...

DHCP scope

It’s possible to have more than one DHCP server on the same network and still have everything work right, with no conflicts and no dropped packets or IP...

Moving toward Diátaxis

We discovered the Diátaxis Framework earlier this year. It’s been on our roadmap to shift MAAS doc to this cool new way of explaining things. This cycle, we...

MAAS 3.0 released

We are happy to announce the release of MAAS 3.0. This release provides some new features and bug fixes. Here’s the tl;dr summary: PCI and USB devices are now...

Basic DHCP concepts

Let’s step back and take a very basic look at DHCP. In fact, let’s look at the analogy of assigning a street address to your house. Usually, this is done by...

How to run ECS Anywhere workloads using Ubuntu on any infrastructure

Using Ubuntu for your ECS clusters on-prem or elsewhere will allow you to run your ECS Anywhere workloads with optimal performance everywhere you need it.

Ubuntu EKS Platform Images for k8s 1.19

This article originally appeared on Cody Shepherd’s blog. 1.19 Platform Images Now Live Following the GA of Kubernetes 1.19 support in AWS, EKS-optimized...

Private home directories for Ubuntu 21.04

Ubuntu has evolved a lot since its early beginnings as an easier-to-use derivative of Debian that catered primarily to the nascent Linux desktop market. Today...

Improving CLI output with jq

Welcome back to our series on MAAS CLI operations. In our previous post, we learned how to acquire and deploy machines using the MAAS CLI. It was also evident...