Two great updates from the #Ubuntu team in the last few days!

The first from our Debcrafters team explains the work they're doing to modernise the infrastructure behind the Ubuntu archive with #Juju and charms.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/modernizing-ubuntu-archive-processes-using-charms/78081

The second celebrates our authd project entering the archive, which enables users to configure desktop/server authentication against cloud identity providers like EntraID, Google Cloud, etc.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/authd-enters-the-ubuntu-archive-in-26-04-lts/78193

Modernizing Ubuntu archive processes using charms

Hiya folks, I wanted to take some time today and talk about the work being done to modernize the processes behind the Ubuntu archive. 1. Archive? What archive? You can think of the “Ubuntu archive” here as a collection of software packages, which are what you install when you run, for example, apt install neovim. Each release of Ubuntu has multiple collections of these packages which we call “pockets”. Namely, each release will have a default pocket (also called a release pocket) and a propose...

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