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Valentin Viennot
10 January 2023

DIY chiselled Ubuntu: crafting your own chiselled Ubuntu base image

Article Cloud and server

In a previous post, I explained how we made our Ubuntu image 15 times smaller by chiselling a specific slice of Ubuntu for .NET developers. In this blog, I will provide step-by-step instructions on customising your chiselled Ubuntu base images for any use case. Chiselled Ubuntu containers combine Distroless and Ubuntu...

Valentin Viennot
10 January 2023

Tytus Kurek
2 February 2022

Open source cloud platform: meet OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Are you looking for an open source cloud platform and you don’t know where to start? Are you getting lost in all the independent rankings and cloud platform comparison pages? Try OpenStack and get your open source cloud platform up and running today. OpenStack works at any scale: from a single workstation to thousands of

Tytus Kurek
2 February 2022

Igor Ljubuncic
21 January 2022

Let’s build a snap together – a complex snapcraft.yaml walkthrough

Article Ubuntu

It has been a while since we talked about how to build snaps. In the past, we went through a number of detailed examples, focused on different programming languages and the use of various useful components that can be declared in snapcraft.yaml, like extensions, stage packages, layouts, and more. Today, we want to give you

Igor Ljubuncic
21 January 2022

Rhys Davies
25 May 2021

Raspberry Pi GPIO support in Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

We are proud to announce that Ubuntu 21.04 includes support for the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi. This has been a long time coming. We know. With support for the camera modules and Bluetooth added last year GPIO was the obvious next step. But with our Raspberry Pi focused engineers working to make sure

Rhys Davies
25 May 2021

Maciej Mazur
5 April 2021

Ubuntu for machine learning with NVIDIA RAPIDS in 10 min

Article AI

10 minutes tutorial on how to set up Ubuntu for machine learning, data science and data analytics using NVIDIA RAPIDS, NGC Containers and Anaconda.

Maciej Mazur
5 April 2021

Rhys Davies
30 April 2020

How to use the Raspberry Pi High Quality camera on Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

The new High Quality (HQ) camera from the people over at Raspberry Pi is now available. And as they say, it is really rather good. It has the option for interchangeable lenses, a 12 MP sensor, a distinct improvement from the previous 8MP V2 camera, and a tripod screw mount. In this post, I’ll walk

Rhys Davies
30 April 2020

Rhys Davies
13 March 2020

How to install Ubuntu with the new Raspberry Pi Imager

Article Internet of Things

The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently released their new “Raspberry Pi Imager” and we love it. It’s a new tool that makes getting going with the Raspberry Pi easier than ever. All it takes is a simple install and three clicks before you have an SDcard ready for Pi. In this article, I’m going to talk

Rhys Davies
13 March 2020

Ted Kern
6 March 2020

ROS 2 CI with GitHub Actions

Article Internet of Things

The ROS 2 Tooling Working Group (chaired by AWS RoboMaker) has been hard at work producing a neat set of GitHub Actions for building and testing ROS packages on a variety of different systems. They work great on Ubuntu targets and preliminary support is already present for MacOS and Windows, making them a great option

Ted Kern
6 March 2020

Ted Kern
14 December 2019

How to build ROS 2 Eloquent Snaps

Article Internet of Things

The end of 2019 brings about the latest ROS 2 release – Eloquent Elusor. Despite an ever growing set of features and some changes throughout the ecosystem, packaging with snaps is as easy as always. Let’s go through a quick example! Prerequisites You’ll need two tools: “snapcraft,” the program that builds snaps, and...

Ted Kern
14 December 2019

Ted Kern
21 August 2019

How to add a linter to ROS 2

Article Internet of Things

A well configured linter can catch common errors before code is even run or compiled. ROS 2 makes it easy to add linters of your choice and make them part of your package’s testing pipeline. We’ll step through the process, from start to finish, of adding a linter to ament so it can be used

Ted Kern
21 August 2019

Ted Kern
15 August 2019

Linting ROS 2 Packages with mypy

Article Internet of Things

One of the most common complaints from developers moving into large Python codebases is the difficulty in figuring out type information, and the ease by which type mismatch errors can appear at runtime. Python 3.5 added support for a type annotation system, described in PEP 484. Python 3.6+ expands this with individual...

Ted Kern
15 August 2019

Canonical
12 June 2019

Get to know these 5 Ubuntu community resources

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu OS is open source, with a whole community working to shape and support it. Here are some resources from the Ubuntu community for the Ubuntu community.

Canonical
12 June 2019

David Callé
2 February 2018

Tutorial: Install single-server OpenStack with conjure-up

Tutorials Cloud and server

OpenStack is the de facto open source standard to build private and public clouds. We believe deploying and getting familiar with OpenStack should be an easy task for all developers, that’s why we have built conjure-up, a simple interface to deploy big software with best practices built-in. In this tutorial, you will...

David Callé
2 February 2018

David Callé
30 January 2018

Tutorial: Install Ubuntu on a Chromebook

Tutorials Desktop

Chromebooks have gained popularity as relatively inexpensive web-centric laptops. They give access to web-based and native applications through the Chrome store, but what if you want to do more with them? Installing Ubuntu on a Chromebook gives you more choice and lets you turn a web-centric machine into any other...

David Callé
30 January 2018

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