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James Donner
21 December 2016

Cloud Chatter- December 2016

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Welcome to our final cloud news round-up for 2016. In this issue, you’ll find details of our upcoming OpenStack and Containers office hours sessions and you can take a look at our latest webinar exploring OpenStack clouds on hyperconverged architecture. Read how Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is our most secure distribution yet; and how Canonical’s Dis ...

Canonical
21 December 2016

Canonical Livepatch Service update – December 2016

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The following kernel security vulnerabilities were addressed through live patches on Ubuntu – to ensure you have the fixes, either install at ubuntu.com/livepatch or update to newest kernel and reboot. Linux kernel vulnerability 7th December 2016 (LSN-0014-1) Details: A race condition in the af_packet implementation in the Linux kernel. A ...

Jorge O. Castro
16 December 2016

Announcing The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes 1.5.1

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

We’re proud to announce support for 1.5.1 in the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. This is a pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes, designed to be easily deployable to public clouds, on-premise, bare metal, and developer laptops. Kubernetes 1.5.1 includes a ton of new features and bugfixes, and we encourage you to check out the rel ...

Jorge O. Castro
15 December 2016

Get 50% off Linux Foundation training and certification

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

It’s been a great year for Ubuntu. More and more cloud users are turning to Ubuntu for their needs on public clouds. On the private cloud side you can find us on most production deployments of OpenStack, and we’re bringing you the latest bits of Kubernetes and other exciting cloud technologies, like fresh Docker packages. ...

Thibaut Rouffineau
15 December 2016

Research: Consumers are terrible at updating their connected devices

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Many developers and manufacturers of IoT connected devices will know that consumers are bad at updating the firmware on their connected devices, and that this fact is at the heart of many of the IoT’s security vulnerabilities. But what they might not know is just how bad. Ubuntu recently surveyed 2000 consumers to better-understand their ...

Amrisha Prashar
12 December 2016

Webinar: 2017 – what’s in store for IoT?

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

It’s nearing the end of the year! Time to take a breather and plan for 2017. As part of our ‘IoT builders’ webinar series, we have asked some of the most prominent technologists, community builders and visionaries in this space for their advice and practical predictions on what’s worth working on next! Speakers include Dominique ...

David Callé
12 December 2016

snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Last Thursday, December 8, the snapd team was happy to announce a new release of snapd (2.18), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides the snap command. It’s time we take a look at what makes this release stand out. A brief tour of new snap commands (and the improved snap find) On ...

Amrisha Prashar
9 December 2016

IoT Builders webinar series – 2016 recap!

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

With it nearing the end of the year we thought we’d take this opportunity to recap on all the ‘IoT builders’ webinar series we’ve hosted in 2016. The series looks at those making a difference in the world of IoT today, sharing their stories, insights and practical advice! Check out the list below: Introduction to ...

Didier Roche
8 December 2016

Christmas-music-carousel-snap

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Ding ding ding! It’s Christmas time, and as part of the festive competition we’re hosting that asks you to build a seasonal snap on your RaspberryPi…we couldn’t help but try out another example of our own. Didier from the dev team has created a Christmas music carousel snap! The snap allows you to play a ...

Guest
8 December 2016

Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Recently the ubuntu-app-platform snap has been made available in the store for application developers to build their snaps without bundling all their dependencies. The ubuntu-app ...

Dustin Kirkland
8 December 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Security: A Comprehensive Overview

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

From Linux kernel livepatches to encryption to ASLR to compiler optimizations and configuration hardening, we strive to ensure that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is the most secure Linux distribution out of the box.These slides try to briefly explain:what we do to ...