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Blog posts with topic "linux-security-with-ubuntu"

Christian Reis
24 January 2018

Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu: What you need to know

Cloud and server Article

As details of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities1 have become clearer a number of statements have been published by the multiple vendors affected; Canonical has issued advisories and updates on fixes and mitigations, the latest of which includes a first round of Spectre mitigations. However, most of these statements focus on the mec ...

Canonical
24 January 2018

Kernel team summary – 24 January 2018

Cloud and server Article

January 09 through January 23 The Kernel Team is completely focused on addressing any Spectre and Meltdown issues as they arise. A secure Ubuntu is our top priority. No new Livepatches are being produced and our regular SRU cycles are suspended while we address Spectre and Meltdown. Spectre mitigation kernels are available. The kernels i ...

Stéphane Graber
24 January 2018

LXD weekly status #31

Cloud and server Article

Introduction Nothing too major happened this past week. Part of the time was at an internal planning meeting and the rest have been working on clustering, preparation for 3.0 and fixing a variety of bugs. Next week the entire LXD team will be traveling to Brussels to attend a small team sprint followed by FOSDEM! ...

Joshua Powers
23 January 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 23 January 2018

Cloud and server Article

  The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. ...

Will Cooke
22 January 2018

Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018

Desktop News

Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks: GNOME We’ve been working on a patch for udisks to hide snaps from applications such as GNOME’s Disks.  This will hide all loop devices, including installed snaps, from disk management utilities making it less confusing and less cluttered.  We’ve reworked ...

Kyle Fazzari
21 January 2018

Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]

Desktop Article

This is the second blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we walked through all the hardware necessary to follow this series, and introduced Ubuntu Core, the operating system for IoT devices. We installed it on our Raspberry Pi, and used it to ...

David Callé
19 January 2018

Tutorial: Continuous delivery of snaps with Circle CI

Desktop Tutorials

Bullet-proof continuous delivery of software is crucial to the health of your community, more than a way to run manual tests, it also enables your early adopters to test code and give feedback on it as soon as it lands. You may be already using build.snapcraft.io to do so for snaps, but in some cases, ...

Canonical
18 January 2018

Canonical brings Slack to the snap ecosystem

Canonical announcements News

The digital workspace will now be available to all Linux users London, UK – 18th January 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced the first iteration of Slack as a snap, bringing collaboration to open source users. Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate eff ...

Dustin Kirkland
17 January 2018

Spectre mitigation updates available for testing in Ubuntu Proposed

Cloud and server Article

Canonical holds Ubuntu to the highest standards of security and quality.  This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753 (ie, Spectre / Variants 1 & 2) to their respective -proposed pockets for Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful), 16.04 LTS (Xenial), and 14.04 LTS (Trusty).  We have also expande ...

Stéphane Graber
16 January 2018

LXD weekly status #30

Cloud and server Article

  Introduction The main highlight for this week was the inclusion of the new proxy device in LXD, thanks to the hard work of some University of Texas students! The rest of the time was spent fixing a number of bugs, working on various bits of kernel work, getting the upcoming clustering work to go ...

Kevin W Monroe
16 January 2018

Monitor your Kubernetes Cluster

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Kevin Monroe’s blog Keeping an eye on logs and metrics is a necessary evil for cluster admins. The benefits are clear: metrics help you set reasonable performance goals, while log analysis can uncover issues that impact your workloads. The hard part, however, is getting a slew of applications to work ...

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