Blog – Collabora Online

Finding a Secure Document Editor for Your Organisation Part 2

TL;DR In Part 2, we continue revealing Collabora’s multi-layered ‘security onion’ by exploring the architecture of Collabora Online’s three main processes. We explain how the architecture isolates each document within its own secure container, strictly limiting system calls and filesystem access through technologies such as Seccomp-bpf. CoolWSD is the only...

Microsoft Office Online Server Ends 1 January 2027. Get the Self-Hosted Alternative Now

For many years, people worried about digital sovereignty in a Microsoft environment have used on-premise Sharepoint and the embedded Microsoft Office Online (MOO) editors to allow users to collaborate on internal documents with private or confidential data. However – Microsoft has announced that Office Online Server will reach end of...

Finding a Secure Document Editor for Your Organisation

TL;DR Collabora Productivity employs a multi-layered security onion strategy that covers many areas. In Part 1, we explain how our security is built on rigorous organisational compliance, including ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certifications. This framework is bolstered by continuous automated testing, such as large-scale continuous fuzzing campaign and regular...

COOL Days 2026 Roundup: Product, Partners, Pizza and Progress in Hamburg

COOL Days 2026 brought more than 100 staff, partners, customers, contributors and community members together in Hamburg for three days of talks, panels, workshops, roadmap discussions, demos, good food and good conversation. Held at betahaus Gänsemarkt from 27–29 April, COOL Days 2026 welcomed people from across the open-source, public-sector, education,...

How to easily deploy Collabora Online on your Kubernetes setup

All you need to deploy Collabora Online on your Kubernetes setup, is applying these configuration settings on your installation of Collabora Online. This is a test example ulitising Minikube. For full deployment and installation guides please see the Collabora Online SDK. This covers Helm, Kubernetes Ingress Controller (both Nginx and...

Interop EXPLAINED

Confused by buzzwords? You’re not alone. EXPLAINED is a new explainer series for people who work with technology – but don’t want marketing fluff or academic theory. We break down complex digital topics clearly and practically: what they mean, why they matter, and how they work in the real world....