[cs615asa] [POSSIBLE SPAM] Homework#N - Attend a Meetup/Talk/community event

[Xiaojian Zhu]

Hi all,

I attended a technical talk about Ubuntu on April 20. The title was "what's
new in Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)". The talk was given by Mark Baker, the
Ubuntu Server and Cloud Product Manager at Canonical. The speaker had spent
4 years helping drive the platform for the next generation application
delivery.

I chose this talk since Ubuntu is one of the Linux systems that I was most
familiar with. I was a long-term user of Ubuntu and I had done many
programming jobs under Ubuntu. I wanted to learned more useful skills and
knowledge about Ubuntu.

Basically, the speaker talked about six software tools supported on Ubuntu
16.04, including OpenZFS, LXD, Snappy, Docker, OpenStack and IBM LinuxOne.
These tools mostly run on cloud and server side. Ubuntu had a predictable
velocity of version upgrade as well as kernel update.

ZFS in 16.04 provides snapshot backups, copy-on-write clones, integrity
checking, automatic repairs and efficient compression.

LXD is the next-generation container hypervisor for Linux. It provides
machine containers, including application containers, virtual linux
containers and physical containers. LXD container machines can host Docker.

Snappy is a transactional package manager. The speaker introduced the
architecture of Snappy system. It has some useful features such as
automatic updates, automatic backups, automatic rollback and secure by
design.

Docker
Docker is an integrated technology suite provider, which enables
development and IT operations teams to build, ship, and run distributed
applications anywhere.

OpeStack
OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute,
storage, and networking resources. The workloads deployed on bare metal
contained by LXD. It has live migration of workloads. It is more secure now
since container wrapped in apparmor profiles and no bios level access.

According to this talk, I learned some useful tools on linux, which I had
never used before. I would try to use them in the future and make it
productive.

Links:
1. http://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/events/228363222/

Thanks
Xiaojian Zhu
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