Blog posts tagged
"Snaps"

191 posts

gbeuzeboc
25 September 2024

TurtleBot3 OpenCR firmware update from a snap

Article IoT

The TurtleBot3 robot is a standard platform robot in the ROS community, and it’s a reference that Canonical knows well, since we’ve used it in our tutorials. As a matter of fact, we use it to demonstrate some of our work, such as distributing a ROS stack through snaps. This robot embeds two boards, a

gbeuzeboc
25 September 2024

Rhys Knipe
12 June 2024

Space pioneers: Lonestar gears up to create a data centre on the Moon

Article Canonical announcements

Why establish a data centre on the Moon? Find out in our blog.

Rhys Knipe
12 June 2024

Holly Hall
15 January 2024

Managing software in complex network environments: the Snap Store Proxy

Article Internet of Things

As enterprises grapple with the evolving landscape of security threats, the need to safeguard internal networks from the broader internet is increasingly important. In environments with restricted internet access, it can be difficult to manage software updates in an easy, reliable way. When managing devices in the...

Holly Hall
15 January 2024

Tytus Kurek
12 January 2024

Cloud-native infrastructure – When the future meets the present

Article Cloud and server

We’ve all heard about cloud-native applications in recent years, but what about cloud-native infrastructure? Is there any reason why the infrastructure couldn’t be cloud-native, too? Or maybe it’s already cloud-native, but you’ve never had a chance to dive deep into the stack to check it out? What does the term...

Tytus Kurek
12 January 2024

Heather Ellsworth
27 June 2023

Improving snap maintenance with automation

Article Desktop

Co-written with Sergio Costas Rodríguez. As the number of snaps increases, the need for automation grows. Any automation to help us maintain a group of snaps is welcome and necessary for us to be able to scale. The solution detailed in this article has two main benefits: Any users of snaps that have adopted this

Heather Ellsworth
27 June 2023

Igor Ljubuncic
16 June 2023

Snapcraft 8.0 and the respectable end of core18

Article Ubuntu

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Igor Ljubuncic
16 June 2023

gbeuzeboc
15 June 2023

ROS architectures with snaps

Article Robotics

Choosing the right architecture can be hard, but we want to help. In this blog, we’ll look at different architectures and their pros and cons. We’ll also show you how to apply the chosen architecture to a mobile robot software stack with three essential apps. With this blogpost, we will see the different ROS architectures

gbeuzeboc
15 June 2023

Holly Hall
9 June 2023

Release management for snaps made simpler

Article Ubuntu

Release management is the process of planning, scheduling, testing and deploying new versions of software. To make this process simpler for snap developers, we have released a new feature called progressive releases. Continue reading to understand what they are, why they are important and how you can use them in the...

Holly Hall
9 June 2023

Vergil Yotov
17 May 2023

Docker vs Snaps: a side by side comparison

Article IoT

The Docker project was initiated by dotCloud, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company that created Docker to run their internal infrastructure. Slowly, Docker became more successful than any of their other products, so dotCloud rebranded as Docker Inc. Docker provides easy-to-use tooling and grew into an entire ecosystem...

Vergil Yotov
17 May 2023

gbeuzeboc
24 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 5

Article Robotics

Welcome to Part 5 of our “Optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 4. This fifth part is going to cover two different optimisations. The first one, covers the compression algorithm. The second one, is about implementing extremely risky but efficient file deletion. We are going to present two...

gbeuzeboc
24 April 2023

Canonical
20 April 2023

Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster

Article Canonical announcements

New installer, Active Directory login and gaming performance enhance Ubuntu Desktop for work and play in the latest interim release of Ubuntu.

Canonical
20 April 2023

Oliver Smith
17 April 2023

The Firefox snap: Updates and Upgrades

Article Desktop

Improvements to desktop snap updates and Raspberry Pi performance headline our latest roundup for Firefox improvements for Ubuntu Desktop.

Oliver Smith
17 April 2023

Giuseppe Barbieri
23 March 2023

Snapping out of Docker: a robotics guide for migrating Docker to Snap

Article Robotics

In this blog post, we are going to see when and how to migrate a ROS application currently deployed with Docker to Snap. This topic is also covered on our documentation website. We will use the web-based joystick application developed by Husarion, (GitHub – husarion/webui-ros-joystick) as an example. This application is...

Giuseppe Barbieri
23 March 2023

Igor Ljubuncic
6 March 2023

What happens in the Craft team stays in the Craft team … until today

Article Ubuntu

Snapcraft, Charmcraft, Rockcraft … you may have heard of these tools, but have you ever wondered how – and by who – they are developed? These tools are the intellectual and keyboard-driven product of Canonical’s Craft team. Officially, the team’s name is *Craft, and the asterisk symbol can easily be seen as a “star” (The

Igor Ljubuncic
6 March 2023

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