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David Beamonte
26 June 2025

Cut data center energy costs with bare metal automation

Article Cloud and server

Data centers don’t have to be power-hungry monsters. With smart automation using tools like MAAS, you can reduce energy waste and operational costs, and make your infrastructure greener, without sacrificing performance or flexibility.

David Beamonte
26 June 2025

David Beamonte
20 June 2025

Effective infrastructure automation to reduce data center costs

Article Cloud and server

To truly reduce OpEx, you must shift your perspective from seeing operations as custom, artisanal work to one where operations are standardized, automated, and repeatable. In other words, commoditized.

David Beamonte
20 June 2025

Tytus Kurek
26 May 2025

OpenStack with Sunbeam for medium-scale cloud infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

The rapid growth in OpenStack installation and orchestration tools that we have seen in recent years has effectively established OpenStack as the world’s leading open source cloud platform. Projects like Sunbeam or Kolla Ansible, for example, are effectively transforming OpenStack into yet another user application. By...

Tytus Kurek
26 May 2025

Benjamin Ryzman
21 June 2024

Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs

Article AI

It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service (MAAS) enables the management and control of smart NICs on top of bare-metal servers. NVIDIA BlueField smart NICs are very high data rate network interface cards...

Benjamin Ryzman
21 June 2024

Serdar Vural
5 December 2023

Canonical joins the Sylva project

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical is proud to announce that we have joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe as a General Member. We aim to bring our open source infrastructure solutions to Sylva and contribute to the project’s goal of providing a platform to validate cloud-native telco functions. Sylva was created to accelerate the...

Serdar Vural
5 December 2023

Bill Wear
16 October 2023

A call for community

Article Cloud and server

Introduction Open source projects are a testament to the possibilities of collective action. From small libraries to large-scale systems, these projects rely on the volunteer efforts of communities to evolve, improve, and sustain. The principles behind successful open source projects resonate deeply with the...

Bill Wear
16 October 2023

Bill Wear
10 October 2023

MAAS Outside the Lines

Article Cloud and server

Far from the humdrum of server setups, this is about unusual deployments – Raspberry Pis, loose laptops, cheap NUCs, home appliances, and more. What the heck is stormrider deploying this week?

Bill Wear
10 October 2023

Bill Wear
26 April 2023

No more DHCP(d)

Article Cloud and server

“He’s dead, Jim.” Dr. McCoy DHCP is dead; long live DHCP. Yes, the end-of-life announcement for ISC DHCP means that the ISC will no longer provide official support or updates for the software. Our ever-faithful, omnipresent friend — the familiar dhcpd daemon — is retiring, albeit over a really long walk to that cabin in the

Bill Wear
26 April 2023

Bill Wear
17 March 2023

Help us build better doc

Article Canonical announcements

We want you to join our Ubuntu circle, and help us document MAAS. More minds, more eyes, more hands make better doc.

Bill Wear
17 March 2023

Jon Thor Kristinsson
9 March 2023

MAAS 3.3 is now available

Article MAAS

In this blog, you will learn about some of the new features now available in the latest MAAS release.

Jon Thor Kristinsson
9 March 2023

Jon Thor Kristinsson
5 December 2022

High-performance computing (HPC) technologies: what does the future hold? [part 6]

Article Ubuntu

his is a very exciting time for HPC, as we are seeing a lot of innovation in the space. Servers are taking on advanced capabilities in terms of compute and networking and we are seeing compatibility increase. Overall cluster deployment and usage is being driven by ease of use.

Jon Thor Kristinsson
5 December 2022

Jon Thor Kristinsson
28 November 2022

Open Source in HPC [part 5]

Article Ubuntu

Introduction to open source HPC focused applications and components.

Jon Thor Kristinsson
28 November 2022

Bill Wear
20 October 2022

Join our Ubuntu circle

Article Canonical announcements

The Ubuntu circle: We are because you are The MAAS 3.3 Beta 1 release is out. You should take a look. Normally, a blog like this would wait for the final release. And that blog will still happen, later, but this feels like a watershed moment: There are some significant new features, including better search

Bill Wear
20 October 2022

Bill Wear
28 July 2022

Compassionate doc

Article People and culture

Being the best open-source company in the world means building the best open-source documentation. That’s means giving appropriate respect for ownership and prior art. We crave your feedback about how to best make that happen.

Bill Wear
28 July 2022

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