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Massimiliano Gori
2 March 2026

Supporting more identity providers on Ubuntu with the new Authd OIDC broker

Cloud and server Article

Today we are announcing the general availability of the new generic OpenID Connect (OIDC) broker for Authd. With enterprises needing to centralise access management controls, the ability to choose your own identity solution is paramount. This new broker snap is our answer to that need, allowing Ubuntu Desktop and Server to integrate with ...

Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Source to production: Spring Boot containers made easy

Cloud and server Article

This blog is contributed by Pushkar Kulkarni, a Software Engineer at Canonical. Building on the rise in popularity of Spring Boot and the 12 factor paradigm, our Java offering also includes a way to package Spring workloads in production grade, minimal, well organized containers with a single command. This way, any developer can generate ...

Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Spring support available on Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

This blog is contributed by Vladimir Petko, a Software Engineer at Canonical. The release of Plucky Puffin earlier this year introduced the availability of the devpack for Spring, a new snap that streamlines the setup of developer environments for Spring on Ubuntu. In this blog, we’ll explain what devpacks are and provide an overview of ...

Massimiliano Gori
6 March 2025

Google Authd broker: authenticate to Ubuntu Desktop/Server with your Google account

Ubuntu Article

With the Authd broker for Ubuntu you can use your personal or Workspace Google account to authenticate to Ubuntu Server or Desktop ...

Massimiliano Gori
27 November 2024

Entra ID authentication on Ubuntu at scale with Landscape

Ubuntu Article

Authd allows Entra ID authentication on both Ubuntu Desktop and Server. Learn how to configure Authd at scale using Landscape and Cloud-init ...

Massimiliano Gori
16 September 2024

Announcing Authd: OIDC authentication for Ubuntu Desktop and Server

Ubuntu Article

Today we are announcing the general availability of Authd, a new authentication daemon for Ubuntu that allows direct integration with cloud-based identity providers for both Ubuntu Desktop and Server. Authd is available free of charge on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. At launch, Authd supports Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) ident ...

Massimiliano Gori
22 April 2023

US Public Sector regulatory compliance with Ubuntu Pro and AWS GovCloud

Security Article

Ubuntu Pro is available for AWS GovCloud, where it combines comprehensive open-source security with the aforementioned AWS compliance features. ...

Massimiliano Gori
20 April 2023

Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04

Desktop Article

Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 is the first and only Linux distribution to enable native user authentication with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) ...

Massimiliano Gori
5 April 2023

Ubuntu compliance monitoring with Microsoft Intune

Desktop Article

In recent years, data science, AI and software development have become a key focus area for organisations operating in every sector of the economy. This creates a pressing need to adopt Linux desktops in the enterprise, as research clearly shows a growing number of data scientists and developers prefer operating systems like Ubuntu. These ...

Massimiliano Gori
19 February 2023

Air gapped network: FIPS 140 compliance with Ubuntu

FIPS Article

Set up secure air gapped network and automate hardening, patch management and standards like CIS, DISA-STIG and FIPS 140-2 certifications on Ubuntu. ...

Massimiliano Gori
22 November 2022

Open source security: from prevention to recovery

Security Article

So you have just installed the latest antivirus and turned on your shiny new firewall. Now your organisation is fully secure, right?  The reality is that all the security products in the world will never be able to fully protect your data centre or your business from security threats. Because of the asymmetry between attackers ...

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