Let's forget apt-get today. Ubuntu wants to make the server system have a better update experience than OTA.

Let's forget apt-get today. Ubuntu wants to make the server system have a better update experience than OTA. Canonical disclosed information about the new Ubuntu version. According to the description, the version named UnbuntuCore is dedicated to servers and optimized for Docker usage. It is expected to bring & ldquo to the server operating system; one-click Update & rdquo; upgrade and management experience. The popularity of Docker on mainstream cloud computing platforms has hinted at the ease of cloud resource management

Let's forget apt-get today. Ubuntu wants to make the server system have a better update experience than OTA.

Canonical disclosed information about the new Ubuntu version. According to the description, the version named Unbuntu Core is dedicated to servers and optimized for Docker usage, we hope to provide a "one-click Update" upgrade and management experience for the server operating system.

The popularity of Docker on mainstream cloud computing platforms has hinted at the trend and demand for convenient cloud resource management. Despite the continuous launch of CoreOS, it seems that these companies that have the right to speak in the cloud computing field cannot embrace Docker. Ubuntu Core is a small server operating system that uses the same existing Ubuntu library and uses a simpler mechanism (container) for users to install applications. In addition, the container mechanism used by Ubuntu Core is also compatible with Docker.

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Cononical, wrote in his blog: this is the biggest breakthrough in Ubuntu over the past decade, Because Ubuntu Core has abandoned the traditional debs installation package or apt-get command to install the application. Unlike the previous server or desktop operating systems based on "packages", the new deployment mechanism makes it easier to get and manage application installation and system updates. At the same time, Because Ubuntu Core is essentially the same as existing Ubuntu, developers can simply adjust the original debs installation package to adapt to the new deployment mechanism.

In Liaison Jorge Castro (Canonical Cloud Community)'s description of Arstechnica, we mentioned that, like mobile phone updates, Ubuntu Core system updates are performed in units of complete images, after the new image is downloaded, the system restarts the installation and update (or rejects the update upon verification failure), instead of downloading the separate installation package, decompressing the package, and installing the package one by one. This continuous writing method also shortens the actual system update time.

Ubuntu is considered to be one of RHEL's strong competitors in the server and enterprise market. Now Ubuntu Core has provided a beta version in Microsoft Azure and can also run on a local KVM virtual machine. First, will the mainstream server operating systems that say goodbye to apt-get change the market structure?

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