Ubuntu Blog and Beyond
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Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Blog: Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 2
You probably know that it is important to apply security updates. You may not be as clear on the details of how to do that. We are going to explain best practices for applying Ubuntu updates to single instances and what the built-in unattended-upgrades tool does and does not do.
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Ubuntu ☛ Cloud backup: improve your disaster recovery plans [Ed: Cloud backup is data breach. It's putting sensitive and/or personal data on someone else's systems.]
Say goodbye to tape, and hello to flexible cloud backup. Today the lowest cost media per terabyte for backups is still tape, even after factoring in the handling costs of manually loading and unloading tape libraries, and logistics surrounding off-site storage.
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Canonical Delivers Chiselled Containers to Shrink Runtime Environments
Canonical today made Chiselled Ubuntu containers generally available to reduce the amount of infrastructure required to run cloud-native applications in a production environment.
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Ubuntu ☛ Canonical announces the general availability of chiselled Ubuntu containers
Production-ready, secure-by-design, ultra-small containers with chiselled Ubuntu Canonical announced today the general availability of chiselled Ubuntu containers which come with Canonical’s security maintenance and support commitment.