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Blog posts tagged
"IoT"


Canonical
15 October 2020

Introducing HA MicroK8s, the ultra-reliable, minimal Kubernetes

Canonical announcements Article

15th October 2020: Canonical today announced autonomous high availability (HA) clustering in MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes. Already popular for IoT and developer workstations, MicroK8s now gains resilience for production workloads in cloud and server deployments. High availability is enabled automatically once three or more nodes a ...


liam zheng
4 August 2020

Advantech releases EPC-C301 for machine vision applications with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Internet of Things Article

Advantech, a leading global provider of intelligent IoT systems and embedded platforms, is pleased to announce EPC-C301, a compact fanless box PC powered by 8th Gen. Intel® Core™ processor. This system features diverse domain-focused I/O and can operate in broad temperature ranges. EPC-C301 integrates Intel® and Canonical technologies, pr ...


Alan Griffiths
3 July 2020

A snap confined shell based on Mir: Mircade

Internet of Things Article

Mircade: An example snap confined user shell There are various scenarios and reasons for packaging a Snap confined shell and a selection of applications together in a confined environment. You might have applications that work well together for a particular task; or, you may want to offer a number of alternative applications and have them ...


anastasiavalti
24 June 2020

Ubuntu Masters 3: the community expands

Ubuntu Article

What is Ubuntu Masters? The Ubuntu Masters conference stemmed from a vision to bring the engineering community together to freely exchange innovative ideas, in the spirit of open source. After two hugely successful conferences, connecting IT teams across industries and countries, and featuring speakers from innovators such as Adobe, Netfl ...


liam zheng
24 June 2020

Building an Ubuntu Core 18 image for Nitrogen i.MX6 board

Internet of Things Article

This article is written by Taiten Peng. Have you got i.MX6 hardware and are wondering how Ubuntu Core would run on it? In this blog, we will build an Ubuntu Core 18 image with the generic Ubuntu kernel for an i.MX6 based Boundary Devices board. The Nitrogen6X hardware from Boundary Device is well supported upstream ...


Rhys Davies
16 June 2020

The Ubuntu Appliance portfolio

Internet of Things Article

We are delighted to share a new initiative – the Ubuntu Appliance portfolio. Together with NextCloud, Mosquitto, Plex, OpenHAB and AdGuard, we have created a new class of Ubuntu derivatives: specialised appliance images that do one thing beautifully. Ubuntu Appliances transform a Raspberry Pi or PC into a secure, self-updating solution, f ...


Adi Singh
1 June 2020

What’s the deal with edge computing?

Edgex Article

With over 41 billion IoT devices expected to be active by 2027 — that’s at least 5 devices for every person on the planet — edge computing has emerged as a tenable solution to prevent the impending snowballing of network traffic. Allow me to lift the veil on this buzzword and explain why it’s been ...


Rhys Davies
20 May 2020

The Eclipse 2020 IoT developer survey is live

Internet of Things Article

The IoT Developer Survey, by The Eclipse Foundation, is the industry’s largest developer survey. These surveys centralise useful, high-level information about the IoT industry. The goal of the survey is to present a better understanding of the IoT industry; the challenges developers face, and to provide insight into developer communities ...


cmoullec
24 April 2020

Ubuntu Core: a cybersecurity analysis

Internet of Things Article

An independent evaluation of Ubuntu Core’s security capabilities Manufacturers of Internet of Things (IoT) devices require an embedded operating system that is feature-rich, scalable, and — most importantly — secure. Built from the ground-up to meet these requirements, Ubuntu Core represents a comprehensive ecosystem for large-scale IoT d ...


cmoullec
20 April 2020

Kubernetes: a secure, flexible and automated edge for IoT developers

Cloud and server Article

The factors for implementing Kubernetes successfully at the edge Cloud native software such as containers and Kubernetes and IoT/edge are playing a prominent role in the digital transformation of enterprise organisations. They are particularly critical to DevOps teams that are focused on faster software releases and more efficient IT oper ...


Canonical
16 April 2020

You are invited to the virtual Ubuntu Masters event

Cloud and server Telecommunications

The Ubuntu Masters Conference is a platform for IT practitioners to share how they are solving industry-wide challenges with the global engineering community. These are the real-life use cases they are executing in their professional environments today, giving you actionable ideas to take into your own corporate setting. Join us on Thursd ...


Guest
9 April 2020

Ubuntu Core: an independent security analysis

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest blog by Trent R.Hein, Co-CEO of Rule 4. Once in a while an opportunity comes along that brings out our inner geek like no other, which is what happened when Canonical asked if we’d be willing to review the overall cybersecurity model of Ubuntu Core and its ecosystem. We’re no strangers ...