Leveraging open source with Ubuntu Pro on Azure: Economics, Velocity & Security

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.

Discover how Canonical supports leading innovators in the telecommunications industry through its Kubernetes, OpenStack, OSM and edge solutions. Get an overview of the services provided to streamline your operations, and hear why leading providers like Vodafone, BT, AT&T, Telefonica, and many more trust Canonical as the NFV provider of choice for automation and TCO reduction.

Kubernetes for Telcos by Canonical

Canonical's goal is to provide an OpenStack distribution that's deployable, maintainable and upgradable economically. We achieve all of that by putting full automation around OpenStack deployments and exposed deployment operations through 'charms' which enable the so-called model driven deployments and operations. Learn how Canonical's Charmed OpenStack helps telcos with:
- smooth upgrades to new OpenStack versions
- integrate with various infrastructures, code solutions and CICD platforms
- fast networking
- provision of performance extensions, such as SR-IOV, DPDK, CPU pinning. NUMA, as well as passthrough technologies like CPI and GPU.

Canonical's aim for telco solutions at the edge is serving compute near the consumer.And when we talk about consumers, it's your consumers. You are a service provider, your consumers are either your enterprises, or your mobile end users, or your CPE device users or something along those lines.

Edge, or micro-clouds, are like clouds except they are a lot less nodes or a lot less compute cycles. You might not want to spend as much money to put additional overhead nodes there to do things like control plane overhead, or an SDN, or an additional component that consumes some of those compute cycles.

So how do we solve this? Hear about Canonical's zero ops and bulletproof highly-distributed micro-clouds. Operationally, we enable you through the use of toolsets, which we describe in this presentation, to have the access you need to your API anywhere at any time, in order to make the deployments of your relevant sites repeatable; whether you do it once or 50 times or a thousand times over. And to make sure that the outcome is exactly the same.

Hear more details from our engineers themselves.

Supported by 15+ global service providers, the OSM project enables telcos with management and orchestration capabilities for their VNFs and CNFs.

Fully operational MANO stack aligned with ETSI NFV. Production-grade, industry-supported, mature.

Designed for any type of workload: physical, virtual and containerised; open source and proprietary.

Get an overview of network functions management and orchestration with OSM from Canonical's engineers.

As artificial intelligence reshapes traditional and new industries, challenges arise for enterprises looking to innovate. Dell and Canonical address these topics in our upcoming webinar.

Join us to discuss:

- What happens after you have trained your AI model? This spans model deployment for inference at the edge, to inference serving, to distributed training and the handling of new data, to the underlying setup and operations.

- The importance of reliable hardware and software layers in critical applications and the benefits of using specialised data science workstations with Linux.

- How to streamline your AI operations to shorten your deployment cycles.

Edge strategy is a challenge for many organisations working to define priorities, budgets and connect the edge fleet to their existing cloud infrastructure. Join Dell and Canonical to hear about how to maximise infrastructure benefits with an automated, micro cloud stack for running and scaling distributed computing.

We will discuss:

- The data centre at the edge, developed specifically for low-footprint, remote computing environments

- Lightweight deployments at scale

- Clustering Microk8s to create a base station

- Automatic high availability with Microk8s for mission-critical workloads

- Continuation of the edge strategy in the multi-cloud environment

- Customer use case