Increased security and resiliency of Canonical workloads on Azure – now in preview

This blog has been co-authored by Maulik Shah, Senior Product Manager, Azure Compute Linux-based operating systems (OS) routinely receive daily security updates to combat vulnerabilities. However, organizations often struggle with testing and applying the latest updates across their fleet at the same rate that updates are released. Additionally, it is…

02/11/2023Linux and Open Source Blog

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