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joemcmanus
10 March 2020

On boxing, tabletop exercises and threat models

Ubuntu Article

‘Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.’ Mike Tyson At Canonical we have recently performed a series of cyber tabletop exercises (TTX). A TTX is an information security preparedness drill where a cyber incident scenario is played out to improve your tactics, techniques and ...


Alex Cattle
10 March 2020

Interana uses ESM to maintain system security while upgrading its customers to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS across public clouds

Cloud and server Case study

Interana, an analytics software provider, enables users to run advanced big data queries on raw customer data and delivers answers in seconds. Their customers include Microsoft, Comcast and Salesforce. Interana’s leading-edge platform is based on Ubuntu and deployed directly inside customers’ public cloud environments. This empowers users ...


Alan Pope
8 March 2020

Safely Backup Google Photos

Desktop Article

With a smart phones in their pocket, most people don’t bother carrying a traditional camera anymore. For most, the single, double or even triple cameras on modern phones are great for making memories. Many Android and some iOS users have chosen to store their photos in the free or paid Google Photos service. In the ...


Ted Kern
6 March 2020

ROS Development with LXD

Internet of Things Article

Linux containers allow for easy isolation of developer environments. If you’re often working with a bunch of different ROS versions, it’s a lot easier to do your work entirely in containers. Getting Started You’ll first need to install LXD using snap. Note Throughout this guide I will be using the hostname to distinguish which machine ...


Ted Kern
6 March 2020

ROS 2 CI with GitHub Actions

Internet of Things Article

The ROS 2 Tooling Working Group (chaired by AWS RoboMaker) has been hard at work producing a neat set of GitHub Actions for building and testing ROS packages on a variety of different systems. They work great on Ubuntu targets and preliminary support is already present for MacOS and Windows, making them a great option ...


Alex Cattle
6 March 2020

Hosted private cloud infrastructure: a cost analysis

Cloud and server Article

Private cloud infrastructure remains an essential part of every enterprise nowadays. However, due to the increasing number of workloads and data, the overhead of managing bare metal servers, virtual machines and containers can mount up. Although tools like MAAS, OpenStack and Kubernetes help to address this problem, upskilling operations ...


Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
6 March 2020

Weekend watch list

Ubuntu Article

CNCF introduction to Kubeflow Arun Gupta, Senior Engineering Manager at Apple walks viewers through the benefits of Kubeflow and how to get started. Securing Kubeflow Talk by Barton Rhodes, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at DaVita Inc. This talk is motivated by Ian Coldwater during the Kubernetes Podcast ‘Attacking and Defending Kuberne ...


Rhys Davies
6 March 2020

The State of Robotics – February 2020

Internet of Things Article

In 2020 we are already seeing the world of robotics hit the ground running. So far this year new and exciting things have been cropping up in every industry. The mainstream media pick up ROS stories and big-name robotics companies are no longer just on the factory floors.  Here we talk about MoveIt for ROS ...


Anthony Dillon
5 March 2020

Design and Web team summary – 5 March 2020

Design Design

This is the final week before the team is all off the Frankfurt for co-located sprinting on some features and products. So, watch this space. This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & Design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Our Web Squad ...


Sohini Bianka Roy
5 March 2020

WSLConf: The first conference dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux goes virtual

Canonical announcements Article

On March 10th and 11th, WSLConf – a conference dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – will go 100% virtual and be live-streamed for all its participants, worldwide. WSLConf is a community event, sponsored by Canonical. We will have presentations from developers, security professionals, teams from Canonical and Microsoft, and oth ...


alfonsosanchezbeato
3 March 2020

Creating real-time ready systems with ACRN and Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

Sometimes you really need a deterministic response time in your system. For example, a robotic arm that needs to be at the right place at exactly the right time, and you cannot avoid the need for a hard real-time (RT) operating system. But, that is only a small part of your software, and for the ...