An Introduction to Ubuntu Core 18

As Kubernetes adoption spreads from early adopters to slower-moving enterprises, many companies are discovering that while containers and Kubernetes offer advantages around development, velocity, agility, and cost management, they also create a new set of challenges to overcome.

While there are commonalities in the types of challenges enterprises encounter with Kubernetes, there’s no true one-size-fits-all way to manage them but rather a number of potential approaches, each with its own advantages and drawbacks.

In this webinar, we examine the motivations most enterprises have when they adopt Kubernetes, the approaches available and the considerations to be taken into account depending on an enterprises’ own size, technical sophistication, current infrastructure and budget.

Join us to:
- Learn the main benefits of Kubernetes for the enterprise, and why it has taken the containerisation space by storm.
- Discover the most common challenges businesses face in the Kubernetes adoption process.
- Get a thorough comparison of the most prominent Kubernetes solutions on the market, including: Vanilla, PaaS, public cloud Kubernetes distributions, managed, and Enterprise Kubernetes platform.

As TSPs (telecommunications service providers) worldwide strive to keep up with growing demand and evolving customer needs, the industry relies heavily on new technologies that allow for more and more flexibility, speed, and robustness.

Today, it is clear that the growth path for operators lies in the transition from legacy VNF models to cloud-native, container-based microservices architectures that can meet requirements for 5G and beyond.

However, understanding infrastructure implications and design considerations for open source hardware and software development platforms, while remaining carrier grade and maintaining operational excellence and capacity, requires careful planning and thorough understanding of the available options.

Join our live virtual event and join our telco experts to discuss:
- Major trends and challenges in the current telco landscape
- Best tools and strategies to reduce CAPEX and OPEX costs
- Optimal solutions around Kubernetes, OpenStack, and OSM
- Opportunities for telcos at the edge
- Canonical’s portfolio and support services for telcos

The speakers will also delve into notable use cases they have come across throughout their experience, as well as touch on topics and questions put forward by the audience live.

Apache Cassandra, enables organisations to process large volumes of fast moving data in a reliable and scalable way. That’s why companies like Facebook, Instagram and Netflix use Apache Cassandra for mission-critical features.

Balancing the build of a highly scalable database while maintaining data consistency can be a challenge. Further, organizations that deploy Cassandra for the first time want to make sure it’s done correctly, whether that be on-premise or in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

In this webinar you will learn:
- Architecture, configuration and security recommendations for Cassandra deployments on private cloud, container and public cloud environments
- The challenges with Cassandra operations on virtual machines and containers
- A management solution to reduce strain, complexity and costs for DevOps teams

Watch this webinar to understand the key design decisions in creating a scalable and reliable Cassandra database.

A webinar for GSI professionals looking to resell and integrate technologies into their own platforms for serving end-clients.

What you will learn:
Kubernetes has spawned much interest from developers and businesses with many use case scenarios for adoption. During this talk we will address:
- Full flexibility of Kubernetes from cloud to edge for efficient innovation and scaling
- Challenges users face when adopting Kubernetes
- Reusability of processes and functionality across substrates
- Microk8s for local device, restricted environment and edge enterprise distribution of Kubernetes

Who should attend:
This webinar is for GSI professionals who are:
- Business decision-makers who want to Interact directly with experts from Canonical about implementing a reliable strategy for Kubernetes deployment across varying needs.
- Overcoming difficult technological challenges to build solutions and platforms for their customers
- Want scaleable, automated and repeatable deployments that lead to better customer opex, economics and revenue opportunities, while helping customers meet their digital transformation goals
- Seizing new models for delivery

A webinar for GSI professionals looking to resell and integrate technologies into their own platforms for serving end-clients.

What you will learn:
- Hear how T-Mobile implemented their MAAS solution.
- Engage directly with Canonical experts about accelerating data centre operations by automating hardware provisioning and configuration.
- Learn how to implement a self-service UX for large scale operations with MAAS, taking deployment times from months down to minutes.
- Discuss the application for both for you as an SI, and your clients.

Who should attend:
This webinar is for GSI professionals who are:
- Future-proofing their data centre or multi-cloud architecture. A demo will be available for technical team members who want to see how the platform works.
- Overcoming difficult technological challenges to build solutions and platforms for their customers
- Want scaleable, automated and repeatable deployments that lead to better customer opex, economics and revenue opportunities, while helping customers meet their digital transformation goals
- Seizing new models for delivery

What you will learn:
Infrastructure is a critical component when enabling AI/ML teams to produce the fastest and most valuable results for high performance computing problems while maximising resource utilisation. Research capabilities can be accelerated to tackle complex workloads by leveraging the purpose-built workstations and servers that solve interrelated hardware problems, from prototyping on the workstation to deploying and scaling on the server.

We will discuss:
- Design and practice considerations from workstation to server with practical examples
- Security, performance and cost prioritizations
- The role of Kubeflow in making AI work best for business needs

Who should attend:
AI/ML data engineers, scientists, research leaders, product managers, developers and ops teams who want to maximise time spent on producing results.

Save time and money with fast server provisioning and server management automation. Day 2 operations of a private cloud can quickly skyrocket as complexity grows and procurement and setup is done in a staggered and variable way. That complexity is tamed by MAAS and this webinar will show you how you can use it.

MAAS creates a bare metal cloud with on-demand servers, runs remote edge cluster operations and infrastructure monitoring and discovery. You get Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SALT and Juju integration, super fast installation from scratch of any OS; VMWare ESX, Windows, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu. MAAS works with the custom images and pre-installed apps of your choice, does disk and network configuration and has API-driven DHCP, DNS, PXE, IPAM, provisioning. For user management MAAS has LDAP authentication and RBAC. In this session we will cover these and what MAAS can do for infrastructure automation.

For all the benefits it offers around container orchestration, Kubernetes remains a significantly complex platform to deploy and operate. As developers and enterprises alike turn to Kubernetes for more and more types of use cases, available Kubernetes solutions often fail to meet their exact needs. Canonical’s extensive Kubernetes portfolio is centered around Charmed Kubernetes and MicroK8s, designed to provide full flexibility from cloud to edge in order to facilitate efficient innovation and scaling.

In this virtual event, Canonical’s panel of experts will discuss tools and strategies for:
- Optimising economics from cloud to edge
- Streamlining deployment and operation of Kubernetes clusters
- Lowering barriers to entry for Kubernetes in resource-limited environments

Join them as they incorporate your questions and topics of interest in their discussion live, delve into practical examples they’ve experienced through their work with hundreds of customers, and provide free resources for further support.

Charmed Ceph is a software-defined storage solution that uses model-driven operations to make managing your storage cluster easy. Ceph can provide a storage backend for up to exabytes of data on different clouds, can run on commodity hardware and ensures data resiliency out of the box. This is a revolutionary approach in a space where proprietary hardware and software was the main challenge for many years.

In this webinar, you will learn about the main problems that Ceph solves, such as scalability and data center economics. You will also learn how a single Ceph cluster addresses object, block and file storage using different interfaces. Finally, since Charmed Ceph is the best storage backend for your production environment, you will be presented with a demo of some of the most significant disaster recovery and security features, like RBD mirroring and encryption at rest.

Kubeflow Pipelines are a great way to build portable, scalable machine learning workflows. It is one part of a larger Kubeflow ecosystem that aims to reduce the complexity and time involved with training and deploying machine learning models at scale.

In this webinar, we will demystify Kubeflow Pipelines and demonstrate how you can use this method to produce reusable and reproducible data science.
First, we’ll go over why Kubeflow brings the right standardization to data science workflows, followed by how this can be achieved through Kubeflow pipelines.

Next, we get our hands dirty!

During the demo, we’ll use the Fashion MNIST dataset and the Basic classification with Tensorflow example to take a step-by-step approach to turning this simple example model into a Kubeflow pipeline so that you can do the same.

This webinar is part of the joint collaboration between Canonical and Manceps.

Network functions virtualisation (NFV) is a technology that allows telcos to reduce operational costs and improve flexibility by migrating from legacy hardware-based appliances to software-based network functions. With an increasing demand for cloud-native services, container network functions (CNFs) are gaining momentum nowadays. Starting from release SEVEN, those are natively supported by Open Source MANO (OSM) management and orchestration stack.

Join this webinar to learn about the current trends in NFV implementation. We will discuss the challenges related to CNFs orchestration and demonstrate how those can be addressed by using OSM. The webinar will follow with a live demo during which we will demonstrate how to deploy and operate network services for mobile core network management. We will use Magma (a software-centric distributed mobile packet core) and OSM as MANO platform for this purpose.