UbuCon Introduction

Kickoff this year's UbuCon @ SCaLE 22x by laying out the events for the day and highlight the latest initiatives in the Ubuntu Community.

Simplify Your Data Science Workflow on Ubuntu with Canonical’s Data Science Stack

Data scientists often face complex challenges when setting up their development environments, from managing dependencies to ensuring GPU compatibility for high-performance workloads. Canonical’s Data Science Stack (DSS) removes these hurdles, providing a seamless, ready-to-use environment tailored for Ubuntu.

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll show you how DSS makes life easier for data scientists by streamlining installation and setup, ensuring out-of-the-box GPU support for both NVIDIA and Intel, and providing tools like Jupyter Notebook and MLflow for an enhanced development experience. You’ll discover how easy it is to focus on experimentation and modeling on your workstation.

Join us to see how DSS empowers data scientists to accelerate their workflows, harnessing the power of Ubuntu and cutting-edge AI/ML tools with minimal effort.

Build Your Own Cloud: Exploring MicroClouds for Home Labs and Beyond

Do you want to build your own cloud in your homelab? Or just have a way to simulate a cloud environment on your laptop for development and testing? MicroCloud is the right choice for that. A MicroCloud is a lightweight, open source cloud built with security and automation in mind. They are deployed with only one command, without the need for specialist knowledge. MicroClouds also require minimal resources and can be easily run on both commodity and high-end hardware. MicroCloud is a cloud for everyone - whether you are a technology enthusiast with a home lab or an enterprise architect with a distributed cloud to maintain, you’ll find it seamless to deploy and run. Join us for this session to see how MicroCloud can be useful to you.

Community Panel / Live AskNoah Show

Join us for a live recording of the AskNoah show where we'll be discussing all the things happening around the Ubuntu world!

Automatically orchestrate your application with Juju

There are some parts of running an application in the cloud that just can't be automated: integrating dependencies, scaling, upgrades, and setting up observability. But what if... they could be?

In this talk I will show you how you can use the fully free and open source Juju from Canonical to unlock this power for your applications. In the talk I will demonstrate how Go, Django, Flask and FastAPI apps can be "charmed" with incredible easy to unlock these benefits.

Charmed HPC on OpenStack Sunbeam

The worlds of Cloud Computing and High-Performance Computing (HPC) are rapidly converging with the rise of AI and complex scientific workloads; however, many HPC users and system administrators are experiencing the limitations of classical HPC systems. Traditional HPC workload schedulers, like Slurm and OpenPBS, are excellent choices for running short-term batch jobs on multi-tenant compute nodes, but they are not good for running indefinite services such as data warehouses and inference servers. Modern HPC systems need to become more cloud-like where they are able to support running both short-term workloads and indefinite services, be elastic with their resource usage, and autonomize common lifecycle operations.

OpenStack and Kubernetes are great platforms for building these modern HPC systems, but there's one problem: the limitations of your system operations team.

The user experience for deploying and managing an HPC system is often overlooked. It is already hard enough to build and deploy a classical HPC system, and now you are adding the additional complexity of deploying two new layers. One layer for OpenStack and another layer on top of OpenStack that contains both the core services of the HPC cluster and the Kubernetes cluster for hosting indefinite services. This architectural complexity can quickly bog down any experienced team, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

In this talk, you will learn how to use Sunbeam – a cloud-native OpenStack powered by Kubernetes – and Charmed HPC to streamline the deployment and management of modern HPC clusters. You will learn how to use Sunbeam to set up OpenStack, and then you will learn how to deploy your HPC system on top of OpenStack using Charmed HPC. Lastly, you will learn how to set up Kubernetes next to your HPC system to provide cluster services such as identity management and observability metrics. Setting up a modern HPC system does not need to be a dark and stormy process - it can be as clear as day with Sunbeam!

Entra ID authentication on Ubuntu Desktop at scale with Landscape

Discover how to bring Entra ID authentication on Ubuntu Desktop at scale with Landscape, authd, and cloud-init. Join Ken VanDine and Rajan Patel as they walk us through:

• A brief introduction of Authd, the new OIDC authentication daemon for Ubuntu.
• authd’s capabilities and how to configure it for single sign on with Entra ID.
• How to automate authd configuration using cloud-init.
• Landscape, what it is, and how it can be used to facilitate the above configuration and automation.
• How to take this solution into production using the additional security and compliance controls available with Ubuntu Pro.

Ubuntu Q&A and Closing Remarks

Bring all your pressing Ubuntu questions for a lively and friendly Q&A with long time Ubuntu Members and SCaLE community organizers, Nathan Haines and Richard Gaskin.