Canonical launches managed Kubeflow service on Microsoft Azure

Canonical has unveiled Managed Kubeflow on Microsoft Azure — a fully managed ML orchestration platform that deploys from the Azure Marketplace in under 30 minutes. The service runs entirely within the customer's cloud perimeter: data never leaves their tenant, and access is governed through Microsoft Entra ID and role-based policies. Canonical takes over Kubeflow operations — Istio configuration, upgrades and security patching, GPU and storage provisioning — removing the operational burden from platform engineering teams. This lets data science teams focus on ML workflows, from distributed training and fine-tuning of generative models to predictive analytics and fraud detection.