The open (source) road to smart robots: supplementing AI with Human Intelligence

Erik Lönroth has been technical manager for HPC data centres for about a decade now and will share his knowledge within the field with you here. During the session, he will go through the various components of an HPC cluster and how he utilises Juju and SLURM to achieve a flexible setup in multiple clouds. He will also be available for an open discussion around the rationale and values that comes out of his approach.


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When three roboticists started a company around cloud-connected robots, they needed to get to market quickly while preserving precious startup capital. Learn how they leveraged Ubuntu, Kubernetes, full-stack JavaScript, and other open source offerings to evolve their cloud architecture from MVP into the scalable, cloud-agnostic system it is today while on a startup budget.


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As a leading provider of RMM solutions (Remote Monitoring and Management), Domotz's business relies on the Agent component to scan the network, communicate data to the cloud, and act as a remote access point for that network. After careful consideration, they chose to develop custom hardware based on Ubuntu Core OS to host their Agent software. To overcome challenges along the way, Domotz built their own management platform to provision and orchestrate their fleet.
In this presentation, they explain how you can build a similar platform and highlight the key decisions they made throughout the process.


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It's 2020, and it's no longer just Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP — open source ecosystems like Java, NodeJS, Python and Go are everywhere in the enterprise, as are modern workloads like Kafka, Elasticsearch and Cassandra. In opting for open source, development teams in every organisation are optimising for velocity, flexibility and ideal economics, and the result has been an incredible ramp up in software product delivery.

Join us to discuss how this phenomenon has changed the way the IT and Security need to approach software provenance, patching and compliance, and how Ubuntu Pro for Azure can help address those challenges.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is the best Ubuntu yet. It’s been over a month since it got released, and it has excellent reception among both desktop and server users. Many organisations are already starting using the latest Ubuntu. Others might be using previous versions of Ubuntu which are still supported under LTS or ESM - such as 19.10, 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS or even 14.04 LTS. If you use the previous version of Ubuntu you are probably wondering if you should migrate, when is the right time, and what factors should you take into account when planning a migration. During this webinar, we will explore those questions and provide guidance from the industry and from Ubuntu developers.

It is a highly practical webinar. We will explore factors that should be taken into account to deliver successful migration at the right pace covering most popular infrastructure components such as OpenStack, Kubernetes and Ceph. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, so we will explore different variants and scenarios driven by potential benefits and best practises from the industry. We will also point out some risks and mitigation strategies.

Our special guest speaker expert - László Angyal from Deutsche Telekom Pan - Net Hungary Kft. will share a practical approach to managing migrations of Ubuntu on OpenStack in an NFVI environment. László is an expert in that area who has over 25 years of experience. From Canonical we will hear from Josh Powers - senior engineer who led Ubuntu 20.04 LTS delivery and Tytus Kurek - product manager for Ubuntu Server and OpenStack who will elaborate on best practises on migration to the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS in the business environment.

Kafka is a key technology in the cloud datastack that enables data pipelines between apps and microservices. Increasingly, developers are accessing advanced features of Kafka and face challenges in deploying, configuring and then managing it.

Configuring the correct amount of replicas and topic partitions to achieve the throughput and resilience an organisation needs can be challenging. Further, organisations that deploy Kafka 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 Kafka deployments on private cloud, container and public cloud environments
- The challenges with Kafka operations around topic management, upgrading and scaling
- A management solution to reduce strain, complexity and costs for DevOps teams

Watch this webinar to understand the key design decisions in creating a resilient and secure Kafka streaming pipeline, and options to achieve operations at scale.

In April, we talked about the landscape for Dell’s Data Science Workstation, which is a development enterprise-class workstation for data scientists. Continuing the initial discussion, join Dell and Canonical once again to discover the AI journey from modelling and testing on the desktop to production in the data centre. We will also learn about the foundation of containers in AI - including how to harness the potential of container orchestration of Kubernetes in Machine Learning deployments at scale.

Kyle and Rui will discuss:
- Dell workstations in AI/ML - Hear the latest info on the Ubuntu-based Dell Data Science Workstation platform lineup available in the DSW Guided Install Edition - Mobiles, Towers and Racks
- Microk8s for lightweight Kubernetes - Learn about “under the desk” clustering (a.k.a. carpet clusters), and testing on a Kubernetes cluster
- Deploying and using Kubeflow on top of MicroK8s - for portability of AI/ML workloads with the best tools for machine learning

With the benefits of Kubernetes now well established in the containerisation space, its adoption continues to exponentially increase. However, 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

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.

The latest OpenStack release, Ussuri, continues to deliver a reliable and secure infrastructure layer while also evolving to meet a diverse set of use cases. The most notable improvements include stabilisation efforts around Open Virtual Networking (OVN) and updates to the Masakari project which allow organisations to run highly available workloads on the top of an open source software-defined networking (SDN) platform. With OpenStack and Ubuntu releases in sync, Canonical customers will also benefit from long term support on both Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS. All of that results in a production-ready platform for building private and public cloud infrastructures.

Join Tytus Kurek, Product Manager and James Page, Principal Engineer from Canonical, and Thierry Carrez, VP of Engineering at the OpenStack Foundation to learn about everything new in OpenStack Ussuri.

Learn to unleash the power of Kubernetes on Windows easier and faster than before. Join us for a demonstration from Microsoft MVP and Docker Captain, Nuno Do Carmo as he guides us through how to configure a full Kubernetes on-rails on your Windows machine. This is made possible through two tools, MicroK8s and WSL2.

During this session, you’ll learn how easy it is to not only access a full Linux terminal on Windows, and with the updates on the newest WSL2 (wide release in May) how you can enable MicroK8s, a lightweight, single-package application that brings a fully-featured, conformant and secure Kubernetes system directly on users machines.

You’ll learn:

What is the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and what’s are some of the great features that will be enabled in the newest version, WSL2, released in May by Microsoft
What is MicroK8s
How to install a local Kubernetes using MicroK8s with WSL2
The advantages / what this combo can help you achieve

Every day, organizations of all kinds and sizes choose to harness open source innovation as part of their development and operations. Many have embraced Linux and are now adopting open source beyond the core platform, as evidenced by the widespread adoption of ecosystems like Python, Node.js and Go, and workloads like Kafka, Redis and Elasticsearch. From retailers to financial services enterprises running on Microsoft Azure, Ubuntu has rapidly become a preferred platform to harness that innovation.

But how can organizations balance the fast pace of community-driven open source innovation with their own imperatives of security, compliance and support? And what does an open source security strategy mean for enterprise environments?

In this webinar, you’ll learn how Microsoft and Canonical are partnering to ensure every organization can achieve more through open source software in a trusted way — with no compromises on security and support. In addition to covering features of Ubuntu Pro for Azure such as Livepatch, Extended Security Maintenance and FIPS/Common Criteria, we’ll share our roadmap and joint vision for open source security and compliance in the cloud.

Migrating to open source can significantly reduce the total cost of ownership associated with infrastructure operations. Over the last few years, Canonical and Dell have been in partnership to design the optimum architecture for open source infrastructure implementation. This ensures business value for organisations relying on Canonical’s and Dell’s solutions and covers all layers of the infrastructure, from bare metal to microservices.

Join Tytus Kurek, Product Manager at Canonical and Dhanashree Karlekar, Product Manager at Dell to learn about the current trends in open source infrastructure implementation.

Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS comes out this month and Focal Fossa will boost developer productivity while delivering Ubuntu’s most beautiful look yet. AI developers and gamers alike will look forward to nVIDIA GPUs being supported out of the box, while a new default theme, Yaru, as well as integrated light and dark themes, resulting in Ubuntu getting a fresh new look while maintaining its signature feel.

Join Nilay Patel, Product Manager for Ubuntu Desktop, in this webinar to find out more about the tools developers can expect and why we selected them.

Joshua will talk about design considerations when implementing MAAS as the foundation of a bare metal self - service offering in a large enterprise. Examples he will discuss include translating tickets to APIs, humans to computers and doing more with less.

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This talk is an introductory look at how the rise of distributed and edge computing has enhanced computer vision and sensor fusion workloads. We’ll take a look at some typical system architecture design choices, discuss their advantages and disadvantages, and have a look at some practical examples of deploying perception solutions to edge devices using ROS2 on an ifm O3D303 time-of-flight depth camera.

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Over the past year the Roblox Traffic Engineering team has been planning a migration to open source load balancing. The goal is to provide an infinitely scalable, globally available, high performance load balancing solution.The rollout of this solution was meant to originally happen over the course of a year, but due to Covid-19 Roblox needed to scale up rapidly to meet the needs of our players. With most of the world under quarantine the world's kids are turning to Roblox when they are restricted to spend time with their friends. Hear the story of how Rolbox solved scaling years worth of player growth in just one week.

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