During first part of this session, Alexander will give a technology perspective on the motivation, features and possibilities that Ubuntu's latest rendition has to offer for developers and product makers of smart embedded and IoT devices. Alexander will walk the audience through the building blocks and core ingredients that make up a snappy solution and will show how snappy unifies concepts found in traditional binary distribution with those observed in modern consumer grade Linux products to make a platform for building modern, smart IoT device products. During the second half of this session Ricardo Mendoza, lead architect behind snappy Ubuntu Core, will showcase snappy Ubuntu Core running on the 96boards Dragonboard 410c. The showcase will include a bottom-to-top image creation demo taking building blocks from the Ubuntu Core online store in real time, followed by a deployment of the image on the Dragonboard hardware, then a demo of available snaps for the platform. In his part of the presentation, Ricardo will illustrate how well aligned the concepts behind 96boards and snappy Ubuntu Core are, to show how hand in hand they can become a very versatile platform for all IoT and embedded device manufacturers to quickly bring their products to market and benefit from an expanding ecosystem of applications through the Ubuntu Store.

1. Snappy Ubuntu Core
A snappy Platform for Embedded, IoT and 96boards
Alexander Sack <asac@canonical.com>
Director, Ubuntu Core
Ricardo Mendoza <ricardo.mendoza@canonical.com>
Lead Architect, Ubuntu Core

2. Overview

3. We are the company
behind Ubuntu.

4. Commercial Backing
for the #1 general
purpose Linux OS:
Ubuntu
Global Services,
Support,
Certification!
Canonical and Ubuntu | Best of both worlds
#1 Linux Desktop
#1 Cloud OS
Now also for
phones, tablets &
IoT devices
CANONICAL Ubuntu

5. The Devices Revolution!

6. The ecosystem is in a race to try new
frontiers of connected compute
scenarios around IoT!

9. It has never been easier to make a
custom hardware appliance...

10. Building an IoT Appliance
1. Take a 96board
2. Add IoT components
3. Design a cool chassis/box
4. Make the software
5. Call an ODM and ship it!

11. It has never been easier to solve the
challenges for making smart devices
using open source components!

12. Building a Smart IoT M2M Device
1. Take a 96board reference stack
2. integrate existing open-source
software
3. Glue and write new!

13. Good News
The Open Source community has these
days solutions for almost everything you
can imagine!

14. But why...

15. ... do many device innovations run out of
funding before they can get tested in the
market?

16. ... is it hard for device manufacturers to
make enough money to provide the
"luxury" of timely and automated
security updates?

17. ... is it challenging for SoC providers to
offer product builders supported
software that can be directly used in
products at scale?

18. ... do devices we have at home for a while
not have the latest software features
found in current gen devices?

19. IT SEEMS IT IS ...
... too complex to make a product!
... too hard to add features to products!
... too pricey to provide security updates!
... too limited collaboration and reuse

20. What if...

21. A device builder can focus on investing in
just the device experience instead of
having to solve everything that it takes
to make, ship and maintain a linux based
product?

22. A device builder roll software updates to
devices in the field with ease and
confidence as often as needed?
... just like the Apples, Googles and
Ubuntu's of this world?

23. A device builder add features to your
devices already in the field at any time
without having to convince the user to
flash a firmware?

24. A device builder could rely on others
taking care of enabling the hardware
platform and keeping the kernel and OS
secure?

25. There was a ready to use factory process
for your software stack!

26. You could collaborate and reuse in an
ecosystem of hardware manufacturers,
software and service providers?

27. What if...
There would be an OS platform that is
optimized for building, shipping and
maintaining device products that would
solve those problems and more for you?

28. Snappy Ubuntu Core

29. Amazing developer experience
with snapcraft to build from source
Ubuntu Core with
snappy transactional updates
Applications confined by Canonical’s
AppArmor kernel security system
Safe, reliable, worry free
updates with tests and rollback
Easily extensible with frameworks
Perfect for the smartest IoT
Snappy Ubuntu Core
App
Ready

30. Snappy System makes updates easy and safe
Snap v2
tested
Snap v2 new
Snap v1
current
Snap v2
currentupdate test
Current: Updates to a system is a high risk operation that you rather want to avoid
Snappy: Updates to your devices in the field is convenient and can be done with
confidence just like done by the Apples, Googles and Ubuntu's
Snappy Platform: enables device builders to implement a modern update strategy:
update through store, canary testing in field; phased updates; auto rollback
rollback
confirm

31. classic device
kernel snap
snappy devices
os snap
snapsnap
kernel config
os writable files
app writable
area
app writable
areaany package can
write to any file
read-only
snaps
writable
spaces
per snap
filesystem

32. The end of 'one size fits all'
Leverage a single HW platform for multiple purposes
Ubuntu Core
Certified HW Support
Snappy Ubuntu
Home Router Appliance
Ubuntu Core
Digital
Signage
Agent
Snap Display
Framework
Certified HW Support
Snappy Ubuntu
Digital Signage Appliance
Ubuntu Core
Browser Snap
Display Framework
Certified HW Support
Snappy Ubuntu
Browsing Appliance
Browser
Snap Device
Mgmt
Snap OpenWRT
Framework
Router
Admin UI

33. Iotivity
The end of the 'early device death'
Add value to devices already in the field
Ubuntu Core
Certified HW Support
Snappy Ubuntu
Home Router Appliance
Device
Mgmt
Snap OpenWRT
Framework
Router
Admin UI
Ubuntu Core
Certified HW Support
Snappy Ubuntu
Home Router Appliance w/ Store
Device
Mgmt
Snap OpenWRT
Framework
Router
Admin UI
Parental
Control
Store
WebDM
Ubuntu Core
Certified HW Support
Snappy Ubuntu
Home Router Appliance w/ IoT
Device
Mgmt
Snap OpenWRT
Framework
Router
Admin UI
Store
WebDM

34. Snappy Factory Story
Another Problem you don't want to solve...

35. Snappy Store
Long Lasting Value and Revenue out of "Device Real Estate"

36. kernel snap
os snap
app snapapp snap
app writable
area
app writable
area
Snappy enables all systems to have large scale app
ecosystem without compromising on security
For that all snaps run in their very own contained &
isolated and sandbox
Snappy provides a framework that surfaces
apparmor, seccomp and container technology in a
very easy to manage manner
app snap
app writable
area
app snap
app writable
area
Snappy - Sandboxing for an "App Ready
Device"

37. kernel snap
os snap
snap
snap writable
area
Snappy surfaces sandboxing features available in Linux
to the app developer and system builder as interfaces.
Interfaces allow snap to export and consume features
and hw-resources that would otherwise be unreachable
in other snaps
Interfaces get assigned by system builder, by user
interactively or automatically
Interfaces help find suitable software in the store!
snap
snap writable
area
slot:
iface3
plug:
iface1
iface2
plug:
iface1
iface3
slot:
iface1
iface2
Snappy Sandboxes & Interfaces

38. Snappy Ubuntu Core and
96boards

41. +

42. Kernel snap as the core to build upon
Gadget snap differentiates your product
One unified application ecosystem

43. Kernel Snap
hikey-gadget
bbgum-gadget
db410c-gadget

44. Kernel Snap
drone-gadget
bbgum-gadget
router-gadget

45. Mix and match ecosystem: kernels, gadgets and applications
Single tool for image creation, generic instructions to deploy
Abstract away the platform details (ptable, bootloaders, blobs)
Concentrate on your software solution
Collaboration in the developer community

46. How does this look on the Dragonboard?

47. Demo and Q/A

48. Getting Started
http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start
Docs:
http://www.ubuntu.com/things
http://developer.ubuntu.com/snappy
Github:
http://www.github.com/ubuntu-core
Mailing Lists:
snappy-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
snappy-app-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
IRC:
#snappy on irc.freenode.net

49. ubuntu.com/snappy