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Calvin Hartwell
27 February 2019

Single-Node Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s and Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

Introduction The goal of this blog post is to explain how to setup and run Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s on-top to provide a single-node Kubernetes host for development and testing. In the last few months Ubuntu Server 18.04 has been ported to run the Raspberry Pi 2/3 which means we can

Calvin Hartwell
27 February 2019

Stéphane Graber
26 February 2019

Using LXD on your Chromebook

Article Cloud and server

Introduction On supported Chromebook, starting with Chrome OS 69, a new feature called Linux Apps was introduced. This allows Chrome OS users, on supported to install normal Linux applications from the Debian repository and have them integrate with the underlying Chrome OS desktop. The feature has evolved quite a bit...

Stéphane Graber
26 February 2019

Canonical
26 February 2019

Ubuntu is EAL2 certified

Desktop Desktop

Canonical has received Common Criteria EAL2 certification. The evaluation covers a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS on one of the supported platforms listed in the certification report. Common Criteria (CC) for Information Technology Security Evaluation is an international standard (ISO/IEC IS 15408) for Computer...

Canonical
26 February 2019

Sarah Dickinson
26 February 2019

Securing IoT device data against physical access

Article Internet of Things

Security remains the number one concern when designing and deploying IoT devices. High profile breaches continue to occur and concerns cease to subside. For any organisation, security needs to be front of mind and considered from the start – not as an afterthought. Having no mechanism in which to address security...

Sarah Dickinson
26 February 2019

Tony Espy
25 February 2019

EdgeX Foundry, the common framework for IoT edge computing, now available as a snap

Article Edgex

EdgeX Foundry is now available as a snap, making it available to millions of Linux users and developers via the ever-expanding Snap Store. EdgeX Foundry is a vendor-neutral open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation building a common open framework for IoT edge computing. EdgeX provides the ability to extract...

Tony Espy
25 February 2019

Anthony Dillon
20 February 2019

Design and Web team summary – 20 February 2019

Design Cloud and server

Snapcraft squad Report a Snap Last year, a snap was found in the Snap Store using computing resources for bitcoin mining without user consent. This software was retired from the Store after further investigation and highlighted the need for snapcraft.io users to report potential snaps violating trademark, copyright or...

Anthony Dillon
20 February 2019

Sarah Dickinson
20 February 2019

How selecting the right Linux OS expedites IoT time to market

Article Internet of Things

With a proliferation of related hardware, software and solutions being rushed out to capture the promise of a multi-billion dollar IoT industry, vendors are under pressure to decrease their development time and speed up their time to market. Choices such as selecting the right infrastructure from the outset become even...

Sarah Dickinson
20 February 2019

Robert Ancell
19 February 2019

Easy IoT with Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi

Article Internet of Things

My current job involves me mostly working in the upper layers of the desktop software stack however I started out working in what was then called embedded engineering but now would probably be know as the Internet of Things (IoT). I worked on a number of projects which normally involved taking some industrial equipment (radio

Robert Ancell
19 February 2019

Eric Jensen
15 February 2019

The forecast is robots

Article Internet of Things

Robots are an increasingly important part of our lives, in more ways than we realise. I’m not talking just about Roombas, or the toy robots that inhabit the wish lists of the world’s children (and the young at heart). Robots are increasingly behind the scenes, powering the modern world we experience daily. From clothing to

Eric Jensen
15 February 2019

Alex Hung
14 February 2019

ACPI AML Runtime Debugger in Ubuntu 18.04 (x64)

Article Desktop

ACPICA is an open-source project that provides an operating system (OS)-independent reference implementation. It also contains a list of utilities such as ASL compiler (iasl), acpiexec (an AML emulator). However, AML debugging on Linux in run-time wasn’t provided in ACPICA until Linux Kernel 4.13. Enabling AML Debugging...

Alex Hung
14 February 2019

Alan Pope
14 February 2019

Bootstrap Your Snap

Development Desktop

People frequently tell me they’d like to make a snap of an application they care about. Whether it’s in person at events like FOSDEM, or online via IRC or Telegram, there are developers who want to share their Linux software creations with the world, and snaps are designed exactly for this. We have run a

Alan Pope
14 February 2019

Karl Williams
13 February 2019

A fresh look for releases.ubuntu.com

Article Desktop

Updating the design of the Ubuntu Releases website using Vanilla Framework

Karl Williams
13 February 2019

Canonical
11 February 2019

Understanding containerised workloads for Telco

Webinar Cloud and server

For telecommunications companies evaluating ways to transition and modernise their network infrastructure, cloud-native, container-based microservices architectures are a powerful solution in meeting requirements of compute needs through edge cloud and beyond. Understanding infrastructure implications and design...

Canonical
11 February 2019

Alex Cattle
7 February 2019

Creating multi-purpose hardware with IoT app stores

Article Internet of Things

The traditional approach to IoT requires customised hardware and kernels with a monolithic software image being flashed at the manufacturing stage leaving devices static. This renders devices unable to evolve functionality and subject to unmitigated security risks. A new software defined IoT approach helps produce...

Alex Cattle
7 February 2019