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Sarah Dickinson
20 November 2017

Building a future-proofed IoT consumer device with brand stores

Internet of Things Article

When building or deploying any IoT device either in remote locations or consumer’s homes, it is now essential for manufacturers to consider and review how their devices can be future-proofed once it leaves their warehouses – such as update mechanisms and deploying security patches quickly. This is particularly so in the consumer market wh ...


Stephan Fabel
17 November 2017

Edging Closer – ODS Sydney

Cloud and server Article

Despite the fact that OpenStack’s mission statement has not fundamentally changed since the inception of the project in 2010, we have found many different interpretations of the technology through the years. One of them was that OpenStack would be an all-inclusive anything-as-a-service, in a striking parallel to the many different definit ...


Canonical
16 November 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: November 16, 2017

Cloud and server Article

  The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com During the last we ...


Sarah Dickinson
15 November 2017

Orchestrating architectural installations and live shows with snaps

Internet of Things Article

Dutch manufacturer Visual Productions BV, provides multi-platform software and solid-state hardware lighting control technology for namely the architectural, retail, venue and entertainment lighting industries. Originating from an engineering background, Visual Productions combines creative thinking with the talent of listening to market ...


David Callé
15 November 2017

How to turn your website into a desktop app

Desktop Article

Turning your website into a desktop integrated app is a relatively simple thing to do, but distributing it as such and making it noticeable in app stores is another story. This tutorial will show you how to leverage Electron and snaps to create a desktop web app from scratch and release it on a multi-million ...


Tom Haddon
15 November 2017

Codetree Collect Info

Cloud and server Article

We recently landed a feature in Codetree that I’m pretty excited about. Codetree is a tool for collecting code from various locations and assembling it in a specific directory structure. It can be used in a standalone fashion, but is also tightly integrated with Mojo, which we use to deploy and manage Juju models. To ...


Joshua Powers
14 November 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 14 Nov 2017

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. Spotlight: ...


Canonical
14 November 2017

Dell Precision Machines Available With Ubuntu Pre-Installed

Desktop Article

Looking for a new PC with Ubuntu pre-installed? We thought we’d run through the latest Dell Precision computers that come pre-installed with Ubuntu. These are systems developed by and for developers, and are available in form factors ranging from sleek ultrabooks to powerful workstations. Here’s a quick runthrough of the latest offerings! ...


Stéphane Graber
13 November 2017

LXD Weekly Status #23

Cloud and server Article

Introduction The main focus this past week has been on merging a pretty large refactoring branch on top of LXD. This moves a lot of code around to make it more testable and easier to plug in a new database implementation in preparation for some clustering features. We’ve done a few minor improvements like adding ...


Canonical
13 November 2017

How to deploy one or more Kubernetes clusters to a single box

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared at Rye Terrell’s blog In a recent collaboration between the Linux Foundation and Canonical, we designed an architecture for the CKA exam. In order to keep the exam as affordable as possible, we needed to optimize our resource utilization — ideally, by running multiple Kubernetes clusters on a single VM. Th ...


Will Cooke
10 November 2017

Ubuntu Desktop Weekly, Nov 3rd & 10th: Bionic daily images available

Desktop Article

  The big news this week is the availability of Bionic daily ISOs. As always, we’re beavering away on the desktop: GNOME We’ve started a conversation on the GNOME mailing list to talk about locking down extensions which are part of a “mode” (a set of compulsory extensions and other settings). Ubuntu ships a mode ...