Building a production-grade robot on Ubuntu Core

Security remains the number one concern when designing and deploying IoT devices. High profile breaches continue to occur and concerns cease to subside. For any organisation, security needs to be front of mind and considered from the start - not as an afterthought. Having no mechanism in which to address security concerns can be as significant as threatening the survival of a business.

Many organisations have adopted Ubuntu Core to help manage the security and integrity of their IoT devices. Ubuntu Core features leading security credentials and protects against online threats. However, with many IoT devices deployed remotely, how can organisations ensure protection against physical access and the data on those devices?

This webinar gives a technical overview of how Ubuntu Core with full disk encryption and secure boot can be implemented to provide protection in such scenarios including a case study of this in practice.

Many enterprises still run Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, but this release will be moving from Basic Security Maintenance to Extended Security Maintenance in April as the release transitions from the five-year LTS maintenance window.

While updating to the latest version of Ubuntu LTS release is recommended, updating can be an operational concern for some, particularly those with larger deployments.

By joining this webinar you will learn:

- What the transition to Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS means
- Guidance on updating 14.04 LTS systems to 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS
- Security and compliance Q&A with Ubuntu Security Manager, Joe McManus

Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment are foundational practices for fully automated DevOps. In this talk, we'll cover the following areas:

1) Key technology areas, highlighting some of the popular implementations.

2) Deployment diagrams, showing several models for how the technology can be deployed

3) Getting Started tools, including reference tools in GitHub that can be used for experimentation

4) Demo of using the reference tools - due to time constraints, this will be similar to cooking shows - we'll demonstrate the start, and the end.

This webinar will leverage Ubuntu, Kubernetes, Microk8s, and a host of CI/CD technologies like Jenkins, GitLab, Spinnaker.

The traditional approach to monolithic software flashing of devices at the manufacturing stage is not sustainable in the IoT era. Organisations need to take a more long term and future proofed view. In this webinar, learn how the use of an IoT app store can create a customised software portfolio for devices to address security concerns, whilst also supporting the addition of new features and the reduction of support times. The webinar will also cover the different types of stores available, how software updates can be managed in a scheduled manner and permissions set for different users.

The growth path for operators lies beyond legacy VNF models into cloud-native, container-based microservices architectures to meet requirements for 5G and beyond. In this webinar, we will walk you through:
• Infrastructure implications: Understanding VNF, virtual machines, Openstack and containers
• Redevelopment path of VNF for containers
• Laying the groundwork for container technology: proactive planning and prep
• The impact of containers on strategy for 5G, edge computing, AI, and blockchain
• Components for core certifications, portability and kubernetes distributions
• Use cases and deployments

Ubuntu Core is a tiny, transactional version of Ubuntu for IoT devices and large container deployments. It runs a new breed of super-secure, remotely upgradeable Linux app packages known as snaps ‐ and it’s trusted by leading IoT players, from chipset vendors to device makers and system integrators. In this introductory webinar you will learn about the latest version of Ubuntu Core, snaps, and how they all fit into the IoT.

Modern software is becoming increasingly complex as data streams from a variety of sources, creating an opportunity for organisations to automate and gather this information into valuable insights. Spicule and Canonical have come together to power these real-time analytics, bringing you the easy to use, customisable, flexible data platforms developed by Juju experts, that can be modelled and deployed on any cloud based application through open source technologies.

In this webinar we will cover:

Actionable steps to providing interactive real-time analytics over huge datasets with Druid

How other organisations are improving their businesses with Spicule & Ubuntu

Running analytics through Apache Superset user interface or embedding into your own application

Companies across many industries have adopted the cloud computing paradigm, leveraging OpenStack to manage private clouds. But what happens when first generation environments become obsolete, non-upgradeable and exposed to security vulnerabilities? Trilio and Foundation Cloud Build from Canonical help define the migration path connecting the old with the new.

In this webinar find out how organizations can transition to new, maintainable cloud architecture in just weeks with Foundation Cloud Build, so you can continue running operations with minimal downtime and full support.

Attend this webinar to learn:

- What critical checkpoints you should move to OpenStack from other clouds or systems

- How to determine which components are critical for your environment

- How to use workload capture and migration to work across tenants, availability zones, distributions and versions

- About real-world OpenStack migration stories

- Tactics to cut down overall deployment time for your project using Canonical

Apellix creates aerial robotic systems to eliminate the need to place human workers in potentially dangerous scenarios such as oil refineries. Apellix's aerial drones are designed for a range of applications including safely applying chemicals, painting buildings, and more. In this webinar, find out how Apellix - using Ubuntu - has designed aerial drones with custom software to enable precision flights at the edge of innovation. Using Apellix as an example, discover how the right software stack can be used to solve everyday challenges in an IoT era.

Whether it is HIPAA, MiFID II, PCI or the GDPR, compliance and security regulations are a top of mind priority for businesses of any size across any geography.

Businesses expect their technology to meet certain regulatory standards, such as FIPS 140-2, DISA/STIG, Common Criteria, or to have achieved minimum requirements such as CIS Benchmarks or MSPCV.

Knowing that the technology your business has put in place can help it to be compliant is an important factor that decision makers must consider.

For Ubuntu, compliance means being able to best serve our customers. Technologies such as Landscape can ensure that there is no case for gross negligence under GDPR if you are hacked, because it will have ensured the latest patches are in place.

Ubuntu’s trusted security and compliance solutions are at the forefront of solving these issues across a wide range of industries.

Join this webinar for information on…
>Compliance and security issues heading into 2019
>How Ubuntu is securing the most heavily regulated industries, such as: government, financial services & healthcare
>A guide to security & compliance on Ubuntu, including dealing with GDPR, why FIPS matters and why compliance doesn’t have to come at a high price

Join Canonical product director Stephan Fabel alongside product managers Joe McManus and Carmine Rimi to discuss all things new in Ubuntu 18.10. The latest software release from Canonical focusses on multi-cloud deployments, AI software development, a new community desktop theme and richer snap desktop integration. This webinar will feature a live Q&A session so you can ask any 18.10 related questions to those who know it best.

Learn how to get started with AI/ML on Ubuntu with this webinar that will walk you through running a Kaggle experiment on Kubeflow on Microk8s on Ubuntu. These highly reproducible instructions can be used for any machine learning exercise, in addition to any Kaggle competitions. You’ll be able to run your experiments locally or in the cloud.

In this webinar, join Canonical’s Kubernetes Product Manager Carmine Rimi for a demo with instructions for everything from Ubuntu, with multiple examples of how to get an AI/ML environment on Ubuntu environment up and running.

At the end of the exercise, you’ll end up with a summary of commands needed to quickly and efficiently launch your machine learning environment.

Fing App is a network scanning and troubleshooting tool used by millions. Fingbox is a complementary hardware device which plugs into Wi-Fi routers to monitor, secure and troubleshoot networks and their connected devices. Fing's engineering team built Fingbox using Ubuntu Core and Snaps to speed up development time, save budget and resources and ensure a future-proofed product went to market.

Initial development speed was massively improved as Fing engineering resources could concentrate on building product features for our users and not on OS/platform development as this comes ready to go with Ubuntu Core. The ability to upgrade seamlessly within hours was fundamental during the Fingbox product launch phase and it’s as important now that the product is in production.

In this webinar, you’ll hear from Fing Co-Founder and Big Data Architect, Carlo Medas, on how Fingbox was built with Ubuntu Core and how Fingbox’s key features including parental control, Digital Fence and Digital Presence are updated and improved ongoing using Snaps.

Huge technological breakthroughs have been made over the past few years, with the rise of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, containers, Kubernetes all becoming ‘must-have’ technologies.

There’s increasing pressure on financial services to change and roll out , but how do they start?

Join this webinar for information on...
>The challenges & benefits of blockchain, AI/ML, and containers in the financial industry
>How businesses can get aligned with these new technologies
>Examples of successful deployments

Dispel some of the myths and misunderstandings about public and private cloud costs and learn about the benefits of moving to a multi-cloud architecture. Join Canonical, Liam Eagles from 451 Research and financial services consultant Christian Joannes as we reveal how financial services cloud adoption is changing due to: growing customer pressure, regulatory change and increasing cloud costs.

Find out why these factors are leading financial services organisations to rethink their infrastructures - leading to the adoption of a multi-cloud strategy.

Join this webinar to learn:
>Best practices for starting a multi-cloud journey
>Dealing with regulatory, security, and geographical challenges
>What the tangible benefits of multi-cloud are

The cloud landscape is becoming increasingly complex with a growing number of moving parts and all new infrastructure trends. For the finance sector, this means being faced with challenges including costs, innovation, and regulation. In this webinar, we’ll take a look at Canonical’s cloud portfolio and show you how they can bring innovation to the industry as well as solving the challenges facing financial players today.

Watch this webinar for:
>Insights into the biggest challenges facing both the financial sector and the cloud landscape
>A look at Canonical’s presence in the financial industry
>Detailed use cases across Canonical’s product portfolio

Referencing 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise data, Liam Eagle, looks at the adoption trends of cloud within financial services, where investment in the promise of cloud is strong, but cautious in how central it is to their IT operations.
Watch this webinar to discover:
>How financial services are adopting cloud services
>What advanced features are most commonly being adopted
>Why it is looking like a multi-cloud future for most businesses