Name: MicroK8s on IBM Z — minimal footprint meets zero downtime
Start: 2021-12-07T15:00:00Z
End: 2021-12-07T15:00:49.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Get the most in depth information about the Ubuntu technology and services from Canonical. 

Learn why Ubuntu is the preferred Linux platform and how Canonical can help you make the most out of your Ubuntu environment.

IoT and edge devices are now deployed across manufacturing, agriculture, logistics, healthcare, and more. 
As these environments become increasingly interconnected, they also become prime targets for opportunistic attacks. Device makers must strengthen security at every layer, beginning with the operating system.

Join us for a walkthrough of OS-level hardening practices, based on our practical security hardening whitepaper,  that device makers can apply to their Ubuntu-based devices.

In this session you’ll discover:
- Key steps to secure connections to your devices, limit network and physical exposure, customize user access, stay up to date with security patches, and harden your kernel configuration. 
- Insights into how Ubuntu Core, Canonical’s immutable, strictly confined operating system for production devices, implements many of these protections out of the box.
- How Ubuntu Pro extends long-term security maintenance, delivers compliance and hardening profiles, and supports standards and regulations such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

This session is ideal for organisations preparing devices for production deployment and for teams navigating increasing regulatory and security expectations across the industry.

We will also have a live Q&A where you’ll be able to ask our experts questions on the OS-level hardening steps.

Securing Ubuntu Deployments for IoT and Edge Devices

Are you struggling with the high costs of managing your data center's physical servers? 

The manual processes of provisioning, deploying, and maintaining bare metal infrastructure are time-consuming, and can be a significant drain on your budget and IT resources. This concise 30-minute webinar will explore how to transform your data center operations from a drain on funding into a strategic asset. Join us to discover Canonical MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service): the tool that brings cloud-like agility and automation to your bare metal environment.

We will dive into:
- The hidden operational costs of traditional server management.
- How MAAS automates the entire lifecycle of your physical servers, from discovery and commissioning, to deployment and retirement.
- Real-world use cases, including efficient Kubernetes provisioning, CI/CD infrastructure, and private cloud scenarios.
- Tangible ways MAAS reduces OpEx by slashing provisioning times from days to minutes, improving hardware utilization, and freeing your team to focus on higher-value work.

Stop letting manual processes set your pace and budget. Register now to learn how you can automate your infrastructure and reclaim your time and resources.

Reduce data center costs with bare metal automation

In this walkthrough, our Product and Engineering teams will describe how Ubuntu Pro transforms the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) experience, providing a secure, compliant, and fully supported developer environment for enterprises.

This talk will cover:
- What is Ubuntu Pro on WSL and why it's the optimal choice for organizations and developers operating in Windows-first environments.
- Ubuntu Pro's enterprise features on WSL, including auto-enrollment, integration with the Windows registry, and how it secures and maintains all open source packages Main and Universe repositories.
- How management and compliance are simplified through integrations like Landscape (in beta), and how to leverage existing Windows management tools like Microsoft Intune for automated fleet enrollment.
- The benefits of using Ubuntu Pro for developers, detailing how it enables secure, production-ready deployments via Pro-enabled repositories.
- A look at licensing models, including free options for personal use and paid models for enterprises, along with the simple steps to activate Pro via the Microsoft Store app.

Ubuntu on WSL in the enterprise

Join us for this session exploring how Canonical and VMware work together to enable a consistent, secure platform for modern applications.

Learn how the combination of VMware Cloud Foundation and Ubuntu gives Platform Engineers a stable base to automate, standardize, and secure their infrastructure, while providing Developers with the freedom and confidence to build and run software their way. 

See the integration in action through a live demo and discover how this approach simplifies operations across your entire stack.

VCF Platform with Ubuntu OS

Türkçe web seminerine katılın 27 Kasım 2025.
- Canonical’ın sunduğu yenilikçi açık kaynak altyapı çözümlerine genel bir bakış
- MAAS (Metal as a Service) gibi çözümlerle fiziksel sunucu kurulumundan sanallaştırmaya ve uygulama katmanına kadar tüm açık kaynak altyapı katmanları için kurumsal destek:
- Lider açık kaynak bulut bilişim platformu OpenStack’in gücü ve esnekliği
- Ubuntu işletim sistemi ve üzerinde çalışan altyapı başta olmak üzere çeşitli açık kaynak çözümleri için gelişmiş güvenlik, uyumluluk ve destek sağlayan Ubuntu Pro
- Güvenilir açık kaynak kullanılarak oluşturulmuş kurumsal yapay zeka çözümleri

Canonical ile Güvenilir Açık Kaynak

Federal organizations operate in some of the most demanding IT environments in the world, where compliance, performance, and trust are non-negotiable. Under these constraints, achieving end-to-end FIPS and STIG compliance across a Kubernetes stack is often highly complex, requiring integration of multiple components with different baselines and certifications.

Canonical’s fully compliant, full-stack Kubernetes solution is designed to solve this challenge. Built on Ubuntu Pro hosts, Canonical Kubernetes now incorporates FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules and STIG hardening directly within the platform, providing a faster, more direct route to meeting FedRAMP and other federal compliance requirements. Combined with STIG-hardened hosts, this represents Canonical’s most comprehensive compliance-ready Kubernetes offering to date.

Join us to explore how Canonical’s integrated approach simplifies compliance, accelerates deployment, and delivers a secure and supported Kubernetes stack built for federal and high-security use cases.

How to secure your federal cloud native stack with Canonical Kubernetes & Ubuntu Pro

Canonical creates base images of Ubuntu that are optimized for AMD’s adaptive computing platforms such as Kria, Versal, and Zynq, so that AMD’s customers can use those as a starting point for product production deployments.  

This webinar will cover the value proposition of using these base Ubuntu images for your development processes, and then walk you through the steps of getting from there to a fully customized and optimized production solution for your SOM-based or custom chip-down designs using AMD AECG chip sets.

From prototype to production with Ubuntu on AMD adaptive computing solutions

The Open Infrastructure Foundation has joined the Linux Foundation, marking a new chapter for cloud-native infrastructure. This merger brings OpenStack and Kubernetes under one collaborative umbrella, paving the way for deeper integration and innovation.

Join our experts as they unpack what this means for the future of open source infrastructure. We'll explore how Canonical is leading the charge with innovative projects like Sunbeam, which simplifies OpenStack deployment and operations, making production-grade private clouds more accessible than ever.

In this webinar, you will learn:
1) The future of OpenStack and Kubernetes: Gain insights into the strategic alignment of these two powerful technologies under the Linux Foundation governance and what it means for the entire community.
2) Canonical's OpenStack vision: Discover how Canonical is democratizing OpenStack with the Sunbeam project, distilling OpenStack’s excellence and lowering the barrier to entry for everyone.
3) Canonical OpenStack (based on Sunbeam) architecture: Learn about Canonical's reference architecture for building robust, scalable, and enterprise cloud environments.
4) Live demo: See a live demonstration of Canonical OpenStack (based on Sunbeam), showcasing its internals and powerful features.

Join us for this webinar to learn more.

OpenStack Reimagined: Building a Cloud-Native Infrastructure

Air-gapped or offline networks are an increasingly common security requirement for deployments in regulated or federal environments and sovereign clouds. Today’s hyper-connected infrastructure often makes assumptions about remote systems being online and available, which break in these offline disconnected scenarios. Some of the most common issues revolve around installation packages and security updates not being accessible behind the air gap or firewall boundaries.

Landscape is Canonical’s systems management tool that enables administrators to control, monitor and update Ubuntu systems at scale. Managing assets is a key component of all security & compliance frameworks, and Landscape enables a range of security controls within an Ubuntu deployment. One feature of Landscape that is particularly relevant for air-gapped environments is package and repository mirroring, or the ability to copy packages and updates from an internet server and make them available to clients behind a firewall or air gap.

In this webinar we will cover what air-gapped environments are, why they might be a requirement in various scenarios, and how Landscape can be deployed and used to address the most common problems with distributing software packages and updates behind the air gap.

Using Landscape for Air-Gapped Ubuntu Deployments

Security is the foundation of modern IT, and in this webinar, Canonical and IBM will show how Ubuntu & IBM LinuxONE and IBM Z delivers enterprise-grade protection without compromising agility or cost efficiency. We’ll explore technologies that secure critical workloads: hardware-assisted cryptography, pervasive encryption for data at rest and in transit, and confidential computing that isolates sensitive applications from threats.

You’ll also learn how Canonical Livepatch minimizes downtime for essential systems, and how Ubuntu’s FIPS-certified modules and Common Criteria certifications simplify compliance in highly regulated industries. Meanwhile, IBM LinuxONE adds an extra layer of resilience, ensuring your workloads remain protected against future threats - when combined with centralized compliance and auditing capabilities (including automated controls and real-time monitoring), this solution empowers IT teams to confidently meet standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.

Join us to explore how Canonical and IBM are redefining open source enterprise security at scale, and how you can secure your infrastructure for today and tomorrow.

Security at scale: Cost-efficient Ubuntu solutions on IBM LinuxONE and IBM Z

Linux is well known for the flexibility, interoperability, and control it offers to developers. 
Building upon years of contributions from the open source community, Ubuntu is the most widely used Linux OS among professional IoT developers, according to the 2024 State of IoT Report by Eseye. 


However, using Linux on embedded and IoT devices presents a unique set of challenges compared to servers, including maintenance complexity, security risks, and deployment at scale. To address these challenges, Canonical created Ubuntu Core: a minimal, containerized, and immutable flavor of Ubuntu for embedded systems.

Like Ubuntu, Ubuntu Core is fully open source and binary-compatible, but with added features tailored specifically to the needs of devices: secure boot, full-disk encryption, confined application packages, and reliable OTA updates. Its immutable architecture simplifies compliance, enhances security, and reduces operational risk across fleets of devices.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:
Key challenges in managing IoT and edge devices at scale
Security and maintenance considerations for embedded Linux
Why Ubuntu Core is the new standard for production-grade IoT deployments

Embedded Ubuntu for devices

Explore the performance differences and future direction of two leading in-memory databases

Redis. Then Valkey. Now Redis and Valkey? 

Redis has long been a go-to choice for developers seeking an open source caching solution. However, in March 2024, Redis shifted to a source-available license, sparking the creation of several forks – one of the most popular being Valkey. A year later, Redis returned to open source under the AGPLv3 license, leaving many developers and organizations weighing their options between Redis and Valkey.

In this webinar, we’ll:
Dive into the differences between these two solutions and what those differences mean from a performance, operability and community engagement perspective 
Explore how the two projects might diverge further in the future
Explain how Canonical can support you in adopting, securing and scaling both open-source databases
Live Q&A session – bring your questions :)

Redis or Valkey?

We compare the two embedded Linux distributions against the requirements of the Cyber Resilience Act

Yocto vs Ubuntu Core for the Cyber Resilience Act

What it means for device manufacturers, how to mitigate risk and plan your path forward

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:  End of Standard Support for Devices

Do you want to build your own cloud in your homelab? Or just have a way to simulate a cloud environment for development and testing? Join us for this webinar that will guide you through the steps needed to build a homelab, or other personal, small-scale private cloud projects. 
We’ll also introduce you to Canonical MicroCloud, a lightweight, open source cloud platform that is perfect for homelabs and small-scale deployments. MicroCloud is deployed with only one command, without the need for specialist knowledge. It also requires minimal resources and can be easily run on both commodity and high-end hardware. 

MicroCloud is a cloud for everyone. Whether you’re a technology enthusiast with a homelab or an enterprise architect with a distributed cloud to maintain, you’ll find it seamless to deploy and run.

In this session, you’ll discover:
- What a homelab is and how it empowers you to take control of your infrastructure
- The benefits of having your own private cloud, including complete data ownership, enhanced privacy and the freedom to experiment and customize
- Popular use cases, from self-hosted apps and media servers to development environments
- The tools, hardware, and steps to get started on a budget
- How MicroCloud is a great fit for homelab

Join us for this webinar to learn more.

Building a homelab with MicroCloud

You’ve probably heard of Linux, but maybe you’re not quite sure what it is, what you can do with it, and, more importantly, whether you can trust it to run your next project! Perhaps you’re keen to explore the use of open source software within your organization but have questions about its security and suitability for the enterprise.
In this webinar, Canonical’s Ijlal Loutfi and Henry Coggill discuss the security of Linux and Ubuntu. We’ll start with the basics of why the operating system is important and how it underpins the integrity of any applications running on top. We will provide background information as to what Linux is, for those who might be unfamiliar with its history, and discuss how open-source software is developed and bundled into distributions.
We will discuss how the open-source ecosystem deals with security vulnerabilities, how they are discovered and fixed, and how end users react to this perpetual dance. Then we will go deeper into the range of security technology built into Ubuntu and what this means for protection against emerging threats. Finally, we will explore how Canonical’s enterprise-grade support delivers a comprehensive platform for secure open-source adoption.

Is Linux secure?

À medida que cresce a demanda por soluções open source, os revendedores de canal estão em uma posição única para orientar os clientes em suas transições tecnológicas com alternativas flexíveis e econômicas.
Neste webinar, a Canonical mostrará como a parceria conosco capacita os revendedores a oferecer soluções robustas de virtualização e infraestrutura, adaptadas às necessidades dos clientes. Você descobrirá como o portfólio da Canonical — incluindo tecnologias de virtualização seguras e escaláveis — ajuda as organizações a modernizarem sua infraestrutura, mantendo desempenho e controle.
Participe para explorar oportunidades de parceria, capacitação técnica e suporte de go-to-market pensados para ajudá-lo a prosperar em um cenário de TI em constante evolução.

Guia para parceiros sobre alternativas de virtualização: apoiando seus clientes na migração com a Canonical

A low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes on Ubuntu for your IBM Z/LinuxONE system.

Mission critical applications require a resilient Kubernetes, that can lose any node and still provide reliable services while zero downtime is a necessity in production environments, especially for remote, unattended clusters, appliances, servers, and industrial IoT.

MicroK8s is the smallest and fastest Kubernetes that makes high availability resilient and self-healing with no administrative intervention required.  The IBM Z platform is a perfect fit for such types of Kubernetes infrastructural and aaS workloads — thus Container As A Service / CaaS.

Together, IBM Z systems, Ubuntu and MicroK8s bring up a CNCF-certified Kubernetes with batteries included in just a minute, hosted on the most reliable hardware platform available.

Join us in this live webinar and discover how you can run dozens or even hundreds of MicroK8s instances to host your container workloads on a single IBM Z server for free.

MicroK8s on IBM Z — minimal footprint meets zero downtime

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