Using Ubuntu Core OS in production

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1. Using Ubuntu Core OS in production Renat Galimov Full-stack developer

   Screenly, Inc

2. Screenly digital signage • Controlling screens over the internet using

   RaspberryPi • Web-panel for centralized screen management • Automatic updates • Displaying videos, images, web-sites

3. Ubuntu Core • OS for IoT and containers • Minimalistic

   • Secure • Easy to use

4. Updates in IoT •Unreliable •Dangerous •Unpredictable •Expensive mistakes

5. None

6. Possible solutions • Not updated • Updated by customers/users •

   Configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible, ...) • Atomic updates (Docker, Ubuntu Core)

7. Not updated

8. Updated by customers

9. Configuration management tools

10. Atomic updates

11. Updates: Apt

12. Updates: Puppet

13. Updates: Core

14. None
15. None

16. Security

17. A couple of words about Resin • IoT platform •

    Docker fork • Needs central server

18. Entry barrier Tools: • Snapcraft • Ubuntu Image Links: •

    https://snapcraft.io/ • https://docs.snapcraft.io/ • https://forum.snapcraft.io/ • https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/ -> /interfaces/builtin

19. When to use + A lot of equivalent devices +

    Heterogeneous environment + Hard to reflash

20. Less appliable situations ± No updates, or updates happen very

    rare ± No access to the internet − Devices are different