Why the world’s largest digital signage networks use Linux

Last December, we announced a Kubernetes Cloud Native Platform in partnership with Rancher Labs. Built on Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes and Rancher 2.0, the Cloud Native Platform will simplify enterprise usage of Kubernetes with seamless user management, access control, and cluster administration. Join our webinar to get a tour of the platform!

Software development teams using the diverse tools and languages of the cloud native world face formidable hurdles safely releasing software fast. Artifactory acts as the single source of truth across languages, package types, build tools, and deployment targets. In this webinar, we’ll look at how using JFrog Artifactory with Canonical's Distribution of Kubernetes brings new levels of productivity and efficiency to your development pipelines.

Kubernetes brings Devs and Ops close together, but that presents significant challenges for traditional CI/CD as an effective and scalable on-ramp onto clusters. A new class of solution—a Container Delivery Pipeline—embraces the fragmented, dynamic and complex nature of micro-services, and speaks the language of configuration. In this webinar, we will demonstrate how an automated, secure, compliant and production-minded pipeline becomes a natural complement to on-prem Kubernetes deployments using Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes.

Need to get up to speed with Kubernetes? This webinar will give you the primer to the Kubernetes platform that you need. You’ve probably heard that Kubernetes is great technology, but have you considered how you can use it in the enterprise? We’ll give a comprehensive overview, demos, and even ideas into how it can be used in your business!

Join this webinar for an opportunity to...
>See how companies can save money and go faster with Kubernetes
>Learn how you can get started with Kubernetes from deployment to your first workloads
>Get an opportunity for Q&A with Canonical’s Container experts

Ubuntu Core是基于 Ubuntu 的精简版系统，现在已成为物联网以及边缘（Edge Computing）的首选平台。 本期将由Canonical的技术专家以及特邀嘉宾Orange Pi来为大家介绍Ubuntu Core的最新技术动态以及应用。

Modern software is getting complicated, and we’re simply not able to
hire or train people fast enough to operate it due to the complexity of
micro-services running across many machines. Juju from Canonical allows
you to deploy open source operations code and model-driven operations at
any scale on any cloud. Join the Juju team to find out what Juju is, and
what benefits it can bring to your company.

OpenStack has often been positioned as an alternative to traditional proprietary virtualization environments. Join Arturo Suarez and Stephan Fabel for:
>A breakdown of differences between OpenStack versus traditional proprietary virtualization and information on identifying when it makes sense to use one or the other
>Analysis on TCO, best practices and risks
>A demo on how to migrate from a traditional proprietary environment into an OpenStack cloud

Want to know even more about Snaps? In our second webinar on the topic we’ll be taking a technical look at Snaps themselves, our writing and publishing tool Snapcraft, how you can convert your existing applications, and the insight you’ll need to start building your first snaps! Ready to start building? You won’t want to miss this one.

What if you could package, distribute, and update any application for Linux Desktops, Servers, Clouds, and IoT devices? Snaps are containerised software packages that are simple to create and install, safe to run, and can work on all major Linux systems without modification. Whether you’re a developer, desktop user, or even a device manufacturer; you won't want to miss this!

What if you could move your Linux Virtual Machines straight to containers, easily, without modifying the apps or administration processes? LXD from Canonical is a pure-container hypervisor that takes the speed and latency of containers and brings them to the hypervisor world. LXD is a machine container, meaning they’re just like traditional physical and virtual machines. Join our webinar on February 7th with Technical Lead Stephane Graber to learn...
>The difference between application & machine containers
>How pure-container hypervisors such as LXD can reduce overhead
>How to use LXD in practice from deployment to operations

As more and more applications move to the public cloud, many wonder if it still makes sense to maintain a data centre apart from regulated workloads. In this presentation Andres Rodriguez, MAAS engineering manager, will look into how devops and infrastructure managers can build an agile data centre with a developer agility and a cost base that can compete with public cloud.

In this presentation you will learn:
* How to build a low cost / high usage smart data centre based on automation
* Most common use cases best suited for bare metal provisioning
* How MAAS, Canonical's server provisioning tool, can be used to build your agile data centre

With the explosive growth of data, telcos are facing new challenges in revenue. Canonical currently provide some of the world's leading service providers with an automated, repeatable, and tried & tested telco solution. In this webinar, join Nathan Rader to learn how Ubuntu OpenStack can help telcos:

>Reduce time to market
>Save money through automation as well as virtualisation
>Increase infrastructural efficiency in order to drive towards the future

As more enterprise embark on the path to IoT, they face 2 obstacles: monetization and security. A number of them will stay in an analysis paralysis mode, while their competitors and the rest of the market progress. What they're really after is a secure path to growth that lets them experiment now without jeopardising their future. Over the last 2 years Canonical has been accompanying companies in the process of building their IoT business. At the heart of this approach are white label appstores built for the world of IoT that allow companies to launch secure managed devices now while creating an infrastructure for customer retention and future revenues.

Learn how City Network builds their Regulatory compliant Cloud services fit for some of the largest banks, insurance companies and large corporations in the world. In this talk, Johan Christenson, CEO of City Network, will detail:

>Requirements and challenges for industries who are subject to regulatory compliance
>How we build our clouds and our organisation to ensure regulatory compliance

Of course you know Ubuntu. Your developers use it everywhere. But you're from an enterprise, where the IT Security team has the final say. As they should. Before your app built on Ubuntu can go into production, you need their signoff. So what's the security story with Ubuntu? How is it hardened? Are there best practices around patch management? What about standards and compliance? How can Canonical help?

In this webinar, join Dustin Kirkland to learn:
>How Ubuntu is secured out of the box
>How we ensure that we are compliant
>How Canonical ensure customers get a first class support experience
>Why Ubuntu has the leading edge in security

Finance is moving an avalanche of change and facing cloud native new entrants. To keep up with the pace of change, financial organizations need to adopt new development methodologies, new technologies (AI & Blockchain) and ultimately new infrastructure (Hybrid cloud & Kubernetes). Tight regulation, legacy systems and inflexible software stacks leave many tied them down and unable to respond to the pressure to reduce costs & change at pace.

In this presentation, Chris Kenyon will talk about how financial institutions are transforming into technology companies:
* Making internal developers engaged & productive
* Navigating the challenges of hybrid cloud in highly regulated environments.
* Accelerating proof of value projects in AI / ML and Blockchain

The "reality" organisations will use combinations of OpenStack, Containers, public cloud, and VMware to deliver applications. In this session Mark Baker will highlight the best Multi-Cloud practises learned in the field for architecting, deploying and managing scale out infrastructure from baremetal through to managing application portability between substrates.

The Cloud Native Platform is a offered in partnership between Canonical and Rancher Labs. The Cloud Native Platform is a turn-key application delivery platform, built on Ubuntu, Kubernetes, and Rancher.

This presentation covers:
* An introduction to Kubernetes for the enterprise as offered by Canonical
* An introduction to Rancher
* Demos of both products
* An overview of how they can be used to maximise developer velocity integrated CI/CD, and ease the path from development into production with enterprise-caliber container management.

Expect to see some container automation in action with Ubuntu and Kubernetes and more... With Marco Ceppi and Sheng Liang at the keyboard.