30–31 Aug 2025
St. Xavier's College
Asia/Kathmandu timezone

How to manage Ubuntu systems in air-gapped environments

31 Aug 2025, 15:00
1h 30m
2. DVINE (Workshops) - 4th Floor (St. Xavier's College)

2. DVINE (Workshops) - 4th Floor

St. Xavier's College

Maitighar, Kathmandu, Bagmati, 7437, Nepal
Workshop Security and Compliance

Speaker

Pravesh Gaire
Canonical

Description

Enterprises running systems in air-gapped environments face unique challenges: no internet access, security and compliance requirements, the need for reliable updates and system management. Its a tough job for sysadmins to manage things on a large scale.

Enter Landscape, which provides security patching, auditing, compliance tasks, multi tier repository mirrors and other features. Landscape is free to use on up to 5 machines and has different plans (SaaS/Managed/self-hosted) available for enterprise use cases. It comes included in an Ubuntu Pro subscription.

After completing this workshop, you will gain an understanding of how to manage machines in air-gapped environments and make use of Landscape features like repository mirrors and package management. Moreover, you will also get to know how Ubuntu archives work and how to manage VMs using Multipass when we deploy self-hosted landscape.

Related documents:
pro
multipass
Landscape
landscape quick-deployment
manage-repositories

Biography

Professionally: I am a TSE at Canonical since 2+ years and landscape is one of the products that I have specialization in along with ubuntu core.
Before that, I used to be Solutions Engineer at Logpoint Nepal for 2 years.

Academically: I did my BE in Electronics and Communication from Pulchowk, Nepal

Things to know or prepare for this session

  • linux basics, good to have idea of how repo archives work but not required
  • An ubuntu machine to run multipass instances

What audience can learn

Get to know the enterprise challenges, how easy it is to work with multipass/juju for practise labs, how repositories work, and obviously try landscape

Summary

challenges of maintaining systems in isolated env, explore tools like apt-offline and why landscape simplifies the setup. We will walk through setting up a quick-installation of landscape-server and run a local repository mirror, manage few clients all in multipass vm within personal laptops.

Difficulty level Intermediate

Presentation materials