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5 October 2017

Security Team Update: October 5, 2017

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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: [email protected]...

Canonical
5 October 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 beta 1 released

Article Canonical announcements

MAAS 2.3.0 (beta1)New Features & ImprovementsHardware TestingMAAS 2.3 beta overhauls and improves the visibility of hardware test results and information. This includes various changes across MAAS:Machine Listing pageSurface progress and failures of hardware tests, actively showing when a test is pending, running,...

Canonical
5 October 2017

Canonical
4 October 2017

Kernel Team Summary – October 4, 2017

Article Cloud and server

September 25 through October 03 Development (Artful / 17.10) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule Important upcoming dates: Kernel Freeze – Oct 5 (~1 day away) Final Freeze – Oct 12 (~1 week away) Ubuntu 17.10 – Oct 19 (~2 week away) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A...

Canonical
4 October 2017

Sarah Dickinson
4 October 2017

Heroku as a snap: talking security, Snapcraft & daily updates

Article Desktop

Created 10 years ago and now owned by Salesforce, Heroku is a hosted cloud platform as a service (PaaS) which makes it easy for developers to run apps and services at scale. Heroku’s focus is on the developer experience and productivity. With that in mind, we caught up with Jeff Dickey (CLI Engineer) at the

Sarah Dickinson
4 October 2017

Kyle Fazzari
3 October 2017

Snap configuration: the configure hook

Article Internet of Things

This article originally appeared on Kyle’s blog You’ve heard it a million times: snaps bundle their dependencies. People seem to understand and accept the technical aspects of this, but today I want to talk about a more philosophical aspect. If you’re used to more traditional packaging, then you’re used to each project...

Kyle Fazzari
3 October 2017

David Britton
3 October 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 03 Oct 2017

Article Cloud and server

Hello Ubuntu Server! 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

David Britton
3 October 2017

Richard Harding
3 October 2017

Learning to speak Juju

Article Cloud and server

One of my favorite quotes is that there are two hard problems in tech, cache invalidation and naming things. Naming things is fun and you quickly realize that in any tech community there’s a vocabulary you need to understand in order to participate. Programming languages, technical tools, and even just communities all...

Richard Harding
3 October 2017

Kyle Fazzari
3 October 2017

Snap install-time setup: the install hook

Article Desktop

This article originally appeared on Kyle’s blog When it comes to developing snaps, there’s a particular confusion out there that I see over and over again: build-time versus run-time. For example: “I’m building a snap, but I can’t seem to convince Snapcraft to place my config file in $SNAP_DATA.” In this post, I want to show

Kyle Fazzari
3 October 2017

Stéphane Graber
2 October 2017

LXD Weekly Status #17

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Weekly status for the week of the 25th of September to the 1st of October 2017. Introduction This past week the entire LXD team was working together in New York city. We used this opportunity to talk about our next round of LTS releases, LXC 3.0, LXD 3.0 and LXCFS 3.0, all to be released

Stéphane Graber
2 October 2017

liam zheng
2 October 2017

First Ubuntu Core Workshop in Shenzhen

Article Internet of Things

Highlights The first Ubuntu Core workshop in Shenzhen Orange Pi Ubuntu Core App Store is online Three SOC companies showcase Ubuntu based solution Shenzhen city is a dream place for makers and startups that are building the hardware that will be seating on your shelf / deck/ car / table in the years to come.

liam zheng
2 October 2017

Joshua Powers
2 October 2017

Server Team at the Ubuntu Rally in NYC

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu Rally occurred last week in New York City where the entirety of the Canonical Engineering teams as well as various members of the community spent time working through final plans for Artful and continued discussions for next year’s LTS release.Below are notes on a few items last week’s event:Artful Final...

Joshua Powers
2 October 2017

Canonical
28 September 2017

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS selected for Samsung ARTIK Gateway modules

Article Internet of Things

Canonical today announced that it will bring its Ubuntu 16.04 operating system to the Samsung ARTIK™ internet of things ecosystem. The Samsung ARTIK platform is a fully integrated chip to cloud and production-ready Internet of Things solution, designed to help companies accelerate their product development process,...

Canonical
28 September 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: September 27, 2017

Article Cloud and server

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: [email protected]...

Canonical
28 September 2017

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
28 September 2017

Patch CDK #2: Multi arch support — s390x

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Konstantinos’ blog In our last post we discussed the steps required to build the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). That post should give you a good picture of the components coming together to form a release. Some of these components are architecture agnostic, some not. Here...

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
28 September 2017