snapcraft

Cloud and server

Snapcraft 2.12: an ecosystem of parts, qmake and gulp

by Canonical on 29 June 2016

Snapcraft 2.12 is here and is making its way to your 16.04 machines today.This release takes Snapcraft to a whole new level. For example, instead of defining...

Cloud and server

HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!

by Dustin Kirkland on 20 June 2016

Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever...

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HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!

by Dustin Kirkland on 20 June 2016

Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever...

Cloud and server

Leveling up snapd integration tests

by Gustavo Niemeyer on 16 June 2016

Over the last several months there has been noticeable and growing pain associated with the evolving integration tests around snapd, and given the project...

Cloud and server

Running snaps in LXD containers

by Stéphane Graber on 16 February 2016

Introduction The LXD and AppArmor teams have been working to support loading AppArmor policies inside LXD containers for a while. This support which finally...

Internet of Things

Smart things powered by snappy Ubuntu Core on ARM and x86

by mark on 20 January 2015

Smart things powered by Ubuntu Core have automated, transactional security updates and access to a huge range of software for app developers. We hope it will...

Internet of Things

Snappy Ubuntu Core and cloud-init

by Scott Moser on 11 December 2014

Snappy Ubuntu Core was announced this week.  In yesterday’s blog post (Snappy Ubuntu Core and uvtool) I showed how you can use uvtool to create and manage...

Internet of Things

Snappy Ubuntu Core and uvtool

by Scott Moser on 10 December 2014

Earlier this week, Ubuntu announced the Snappy Ubuntu Core . As part of the announcement, a set of qemu based instructions were included for checking out a...

Internet of Things

Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates!

by mark on 9 December 2014

Ubuntu Core brings the bulletproof update mechanism and application isolation security from the Ubuntu phone to the cloud. It creates the smallest, most...