After enjoying the fortunate release schedule of Ubuntu Core, which coincided with industry-wide enthusiasm for container-based cloud installations, Canonical has announced the launch of an IoT focused flavor of Ubuntu Core – aimed directly at the devices that will coordinate local IoT communications. In these deployments, Snappy Ubuntu Core will act as the OS for the IoT hubs that route and backhaul data from the smallest devices to the largest cloud-instances. Thanks to the design of Ubuntu Core, the OS can be continuously updated in the field, so that security vulnerabilities can be patched and mitigated as they are discovered; a very important requirement for high-value deployments in businesses or people’s private homes. The new strategy sees the lightweight Ubuntu…