From VMWare to Canonical OpenStack

Open source technologies, like Kubeflow, are increasingly being used for AI/ML and predictive modeling across industries. However, operationalising the model and building the AI/ML infrastructure requires planning, automation and a lot of DevOps resources.

Our latest webinar provides real world application in finserv ai, with a demo on building and training an AI/ML model on bare metal using MAAS, Kubeflow, Kafka and ElasticSearch to predict whether the S&P 500 will close positive or negative on the current day, drawing on past data. Canonical engineers also provide details on the operations-side of AI/ML, with infrastructure considerations, automation tooling and additional services available.

In this webinar you will learn:
Details of an ML, production use case for end-to-end wiring using multiple applications
Demo of building and training an AI/ML model for predicting S&P performance
Highlight additional solutions and tooling to implement, secure and manage open source technologies in production

In this webinar, Canonical and Mavencode partner to explore the application of Machine Learning in an industrial processing plant where we try to determine the mean-time to failure, detect anomaly and recommend prescriptive maintenance for failure prevention and downtime reduction.

Mavencode will start by detailing how new tools like Kubeflow can be used to accelerate the time from model development to deployment in a real world scenario. Using anomaly detection and machinery failure prevention as a use-case, we will go over an architectural overview on how to get from data to actionable insight.

Finally, Canonical will discuss how you can tame the complexity of cloud-native projects such as Kubeflow through the concepts of charms, operators and application lifecycle management.

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 reaches the end of life (EOL) on the 31st of May 2021. While existing customers can gain an additional 11 months by migrating to SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9, it will reach EOL soon too. After this period, SUSE OpenStack Cloud support will be discontinued according to their announcement from 2019. Thus, if you are a SUSE OpenStack Cloud customer, it is a high time to start putting a migration plan together.

Join Tytus Kurek, Product Manager at Canonical and Gabriel Samfira, Senior Cloud Architect at Cloudbase Solutions, to learn about the challenges with migration from SUSE OpenStack Cloud to other OpenStack platforms. During this webinar we will explore the advantages of switching to Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack and demonstrate how Coriolis helps with the migration process, ensuring non-stop availability of services.

L'infrastruttura è un componente critico quando si consente ai team AI / ML di produrre i risultati più rapidi e preziosi per problemi di elaborazione ad alte prestazioni, massimizzando al contempo l'utilizzo delle risorse. Le capacità di ricerca possono essere accelerate per affrontare carichi di lavoro complessi sfruttando le workstation e i server appositamente costruiti che risolvono problemi hardware correlati, dalla prototipazione sulla workstation alla distribuzione e scalabilità sul server.

The datacenter is evolving. DPUs are fast becoming the third pillar of enterprise computing in addition to the CPU and GPU. At the same time, the increasing complexity in enterprise software has led to the rise of new tools like Kubernetes and Operators.
This talk touches upon why the DPU makes sense and how best to use this new class of devices. We then demo Ubuntu running a lightweight upstream Kubernetes (microK8s) on the DPU, and discuss the challenges facing software orchestration today. Using Kubeflow as an example, we then preview a solution for application management and integration, with the Python Operator Framework.

The webinar talks about MicroK8s and the implementations of Kubeflow in a Microk8s environment. It enables the user to build, work the CI/CD pipeline for testing and finally deploy it on the production cluster.
Kubeflow introduces elements of the pipeline, creating a multi-container environment on a Kubernetes cluster with multi pods.

Learn how to set up a Pi-Hole instance with a single command and a cluster of Raspberry Pis on MicroK8s. High availability, load balancing and Kubernetes configuration included.

The Raspberry Pi 4 brings the graphics, RAM and connectivity needed for a Linux workstation, so why not use a cluster to set up your own Pi-Hole, the open source network-level ad blocker that acts as a DNS sinkhole or DHCP server.

Or follow along to learn more about MicroK8s, here we’ll highlight the how's and the why's of high availability that came with MicroK8s 1.19 along with the use cases of lightweight Kubernetes.

In modern PC-based platforms, UEFI Secure Boot is used to protect the integrity of the boot process by ensuring that only authorized code is allowed to run during this critical time. If unauthorized code can run during the boot process, the operating system itself and the security guarantees it tries to provide can no longer be trusted. In April 2020, a security vulnerability in the GRUB2 bootloader allowing arbitrary code execution was disclosed to the GRUB2 maintainers and a number of other affected parties. Although the fix to the code itself was simple, only one line, complications with both the UEFI Secure Boot implementation and ecosystem necessitated a complex, industry-wide mitigation effort. Revocation, new shim review process, additional vulnerabilities found and fixed, and more. We'll discuss the problems we encountered and overcame as well as areas for future improvement from the perspective of the security researchers, the GRUB upstream maintainers, and the Linux distributions.

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In order to fully benefit from Industry 4.0, the classic boundaries between operational technology like machine controls, the IT world and the Internet of Things need to be overcome. This session will explain how Bosch Rexroth approaches this with its new complete automation solution ctrlX AUTOMATION which is based on Linux with real-time extension, consistently open standards, app programming technology, web-based engineering and a comprehensive IoT connection.

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Data professionals were caught by surprise when IT shops started to introduce VMs for SQL Server workloads 15 years ago. As it usually happens with new technologies, there was some hesitation at the beginning; however, it was a quick turnaround until they become the standard today. So, you may ask yourself today, are containers going down the same road? Do I have to be prepared for this containers / Kubernetes thing?

The answer is yes! Containers are not necessarily a replacement to VMs or whatsoever. In reality, they will make an excellent addition to your technology stack that could help you to solve software problems.

This session will provide you best practices, methods, and practical solutions to help you manage your SQL Server workloads on Kubernetes hosted in Ubuntu whether on-premises using MicroK8s or cloud services like AKS.

You will be able to use Kubernetes to perform near to zero downtime version upgrades, set up high availability, and accomplish agile database deployments at the end of this session.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus, one of the most popular Ubuntu releases, has been available since 2016 - with many organisations adopting it for enterprise use. In April 2021, this LTS release will enter the Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) period and transition from its standard, five-year security maintenance window. This webinar will explain its move to ESM and provide a guide to key considerations when planning a migration.

In this webinar you will learn:

- What is ESM and the extended security maintenance period?
- A guide with six key considerations when planning a migration from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- How to keep your 16.04 LTS systems in production secure while you plan you migration path

Open source software is everywhere and has become a critical part of the modern economy. It has been estimated that open source software components constitute 80-90% of any given piece of modern software. More and more financial institutions are building enterprise applications using open source components. The real draw of open source for most financial institutions today, is the ability to explore and innovate with new technologies and to easily scale the solutions that deliver real competitive advantage.

Open source ecosystem is growing rapidly and with widespread adoption comes its own set of challenges. Financial institutions are realising the overhead of open source technology estate maintenance and day-N operational challenges. One of the ways to address these challenges is for organisations to offload the complexity and time-consuming tasks of day to day operations and maintenance of open source applications to managed service providers.

This webinar aims to answer some of the key questions faced today by financial institutions across the globe in their open source adoption journey.

- Why is open source the key to agility and innovation ?
- What are the benefits and challenges of the open source ecosystem?
- How managed open source can help financial institutions deliver business value?

Watch this webinar to understand how financial institutions are leveraging managed service for open source and gaining freedom from application maintenance and day to day operations to adapt, innovate and transform at speed.