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Canonical Livepatch Service update – December 2016
By Canonical, 21 December 2016
The following kernel security vulnerabilities were addressed through live patches on Ubuntu – to ensure you have the fixes, either install at...
Announcing The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes 1.5.1
By Jorge O. Castro, 16 December 2016
We’re proud to announce support for 1.5.1 in the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. This is a pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes, designed to be...
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By Jorge O. Castro, 15 December 2016
It’s been a great year for Ubuntu. More and more cloud users are turning to Ubuntu for their needs on public clouds. On the private cloud side you can find us...
Research: Consumers are terrible at updating their connected devices
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 15 December 2016
Many developers and manufacturers of IoT connected devices will know that consumers are bad at updating the firmware on their connected devices, and that this...
Webinar: 2017 – what’s in store for IoT?
By Amrisha Prashar, 12 December 2016
It’s nearing the end of the year! Time to take a breather and plan for 2017. As part of our ‘IoT builders’ webinar series, we have asked some of the most...
snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back
By David Callé, 12 December 2016
Last Thursday, December 8, the snapd team was happy to announce a new release of snapd (2.18), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides...
IoT Builders webinar series – 2016 recap!
By Amrisha Prashar, 9 December 2016
With it nearing the end of the year we thought we’d take this opportunity to recap on all the ‘IoT builders’ webinar series we’ve hosted in 2016. The series...
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By Didier Roche, 8 December 2016
Ding ding ding! It’s Christmas time, and as part of the festive competition we’re hosting that asks you to build a seasonal snap on your RaspberryPi…we...
Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps
By Guest, 8 December 2016
This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Security: A Comprehensive Overview
By Dustin Kirkland, 8 December 2016
From Linux kernel livepatches to encryption to ASLR to compiler optimizations and configuration hardening, we strive to ensure that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is the...
Mounting your home directory in LXD
By Canonical, 8 December 2016
As of LXD stable 2.0.8 and feature release 2.6, LXD has support for various UID and GID map related manipulaions. A common question is: “How do I bind-mount...