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We are pleased to announce that officially certified FIPS 140-2 level 1 cryptographic packages are now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu Advantage Advanced customers and as a separate, stand-alone product.

In 2016 Canonical began the process of completing the Cryptographic Module Validation Program to obtain FIPS 140-2 validation for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This has been successfully completed and Canonical now offers key components of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS compliant with the FIPS 140-2 level 1 standard. The FIPS compliant modules are available to Ubuntu Advantage Advanced subscribers in the Ubuntu Advantage private archive.

What is FIPS?

FIPS stands for Federal Information Processing Standards which is a set of publications developed and maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a United States federal agency. These publications define the security criteria required for government computers and telecommunication systems.

IMS Evolve has delivered rapidly scalable IoT Solutions to some of the world’s largest food retailers, from their refrigeration systems to their petrol filling stations. In total, IMS Evolve’s systems monitor 25 million data points every minute of every day and manage almost 98,000 sites across 12 countries.

To reliably manage this vast amount of data, they needed a partner that shared the same internet of things vision to harness the untapped data from legacy infrastructures to benefit businesses and the wider economy. At the same time, IMS Evolve were looking for an edge solution that employed a highly resilient, reliable and secure OS, that would minimise the need for maintenance or manual intervention. Download the case study below to find out how IMS Evolve adopted Ubuntu Core on Dell Edge Gateways to run the cold-chain solutions of some of the most recognisable food retailers.

Highlights

Ubuntu Core at the heart of large-scale, stable and secure industrial IoT solution
IMS Evolve’s solution allows customers to extract maximum value from valuable, business-critical cold chain assets
One retailer realised energy savings of $7m in one year

get things from one computer to another, safely

This package provides a library and a command-line tool named wormhole, which makes it possible to get arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another. The two endpoints are identified by using identical "wormhole codes": in general, the sending machine generates and displays the code, which must then be typed into the receiving machine.

snap install wormhole

What is Multipass?

Multipass is a service that manages virtual machine instances running Ubuntu. It uses images from cloud-images and QEMU/KVM as the backend to provide easy access to a whole range of Ubuntu instances. The client command line is kept similar to LXD’s to keep your muscle memory happy.

Features

Fetch and cache images from cloud-images
Periodically refresh downloaded images ensuring you always have the freshest image installed
Launch instances of any supported Ubuntu version
Create instances with custom disk size / memory size / cpu count
Easily connect to a shell prompt inside the instance or execute commands as part of your workflow
Support cloud-init5 user-data for instance customization
Mount data from the host inside instances

Binaries

A classically-confined snap for amd64 is published in the beta channel. It can be installed with the following command on any snap-enabled system:

sudo snap install multipass --beta --classic

To see the full list of commands available with multipass type:

multipass help