Categoría: azure

Profile workloads on x86-64-v3 to enable future performance gains

Ubuntu 23.10 experimental image with x86-64-v3 instruction set now available on Azure Canonical is enabling enterprises to evaluate the performance of their most critical workloads in an experimental Ubuntu image on Azure compiled with x86-64-v3, which is a microarchitecture level that has the potential for performance gains. Developers can use this image to characterise workloads, […]

Canonical’s Ubuntu Core receives Microsoft Azure IoT Edge Tier 1 supported platform status

London, 20 March 2024. Canonical has announced that Ubuntu Core, its operating system optimised for the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge, has received Microsoft Azure IoT Edge Tier 1 supported platform status from Microsoft.  This collaboration brings computation, storage, and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in the cloud closer to the edge of the network.  […]

Azure pricing explained

Have you ever wondered how Azure pricing actually works? So, you’ve decided to use Azure as your primary cloud platform and want to calculate your infrastructure costs. You estimate them based on listed prices, and rest assured that your startup/project will meet its budget. And then, suddenly, at the end of the month, you receive […]

Deploying Kubeflow Pipelines with Azure AKS spot instances

Introduction Charmed Kubeflow is an MLOps platform from Canonical, designed to improve the lives of data engineers and data scientists by delivering an end-to-end solution for AM/ML model ideation, training, release and maintenance, from concept to production. As a result, Charmed Kubeflow includes Kubeflow Pipelines, an engine for orchestrating MLOps workflows such as feature engineering, […]

How we designed Ubuntu Pro for Confidential Computing on Azure

Not all data is destined to be public. Moving workloads that handle secret or private data from an on-premise setup to a public cloud introduces a new attack surface with different risks. As the public cloud environment shares its hardware infrastructure, a flaw in the clouds’ isolation mechanisms can be detrimental to the protection of […]

Kubernetes GitOps with Azure Arc and Charmed Kubernetes

This week, Canonical announced the integration of  Charmed Kubernetes with Microsoft Azure Arc. This integration provides businesses with a centralised place to manage their Kubernetes clusters and deploy their applications at scale, from cloud to the edge. The Azure Arc dashboard enables management and governance of any Kubernetes, across any substrate. These capabilities are now […]