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alfonsosanchezbeato
15 March 2019

Porting Ubuntu Core 18 on Nvidia Jetson TX1 Developer Kit

Tutorials Internet of Things

Ubuntu Core (UC) is Canonical’s take in the IoT space. There are pre-built images for officially supported devices, like Raspberry Pi or Intel NUCs, but for other boards, when there is no community port, one needs to create one on their own. This is the the case if one wants to run Ubuntu Core 18

alfonsosanchezbeato
15 March 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
14 March 2019

Make your snap development faster

Article Desktop

“All my centurions develop using snaps.” Julius Caesar By and large, software development can be an enjoyable process. Until you hit the first error, that is. At that point, you want to get past the stumbling blocks as quickly as possible and resume building your apps. A robust, flexible development framework can make a big

Igor Ljubuncic
14 March 2019

Kyle Fazzari
11 March 2019

ROS 2 launch: required nodes

Article Cloud and server

When using the Robot Operating System (ROS), it’s fairly common to want to shut down a launched system if a specific node (or set of nodes) exits. This is pretty easy in ROS1, because launch files support the required attribute on each node. As a result, crafting a two-node system where one of the nodes

Kyle Fazzari
11 March 2019

Maximilian Ehlers
11 March 2019

FOSDEM 2019, a recap

Article Desktop

A subjective review and some takeaways of our teams trip to FOSDEM 2019.

Maximilian Ehlers
11 March 2019

Martin Wimpress
9 March 2019

Fresh KDE snaps for February 2019

Article Desktop

During February 2019 we celebrated another fine Plasma release with our friends at KDE by showcasing a month of KDE snaps on the Snapcraft Twitter and other social accounts. The KDE developers have done amazing work to create an SDK that simplifies making snaps of KDE applications and they also publish a common KDE framework

Martin Wimpress
9 March 2019

Canonical
7 March 2019

Canonical at NVIDIA GTC 2019

Article Cloud and server

Canonical will be attending Nvidia’s GTC Conference in San Jose, California March 18 – 21, 2019.

Canonical
7 March 2019

Canonical
7 March 2019

How to ensure the ongoing security and compliance of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’

Article Cloud and server

As 14.04 reaches the end of its five-year, Standard Security Maintenance, LTS window in April 2019, support for the OS is transitioning into a new phase – Extended Security Maintenance (ESM).

Canonical
7 March 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
7 March 2019

How to create snapshots of your snaps

Article Desktop

Data backups are arguably the most important part of one’s software setup. While many scenarios fall into the realm of if, data loss belongs in the when domain. Over time, every one of us will experience some kind of hardware failure, be it an optical disk, a hard disk or a lost phone. It is

Igor Ljubuncic
7 March 2019

Canonical
6 March 2019

Infographic: Snapcraft for developers

Article Cloud and server

At the end of last year, we shared an infographic highlighting the adoption of snaps by users for their desktop, server or IoT devices. Those snaps wouldn’t be available without the growing number of developers building them behind the scenes. But why have developers, including those from some of the world’s largest...

Canonical
6 March 2019

Canonical
4 March 2019

How to quickly deploy production-ready Kubernetes

Article Cloud and server

Kubernetes, the flexible software that coordinates containers, runs on a range of platforms, from public to private cloud, data centers, bare metal and virtualised infrastructure, and requires a number of considerations for design and performance optimisation. Beyond identifying individual requirements, such as use...

Canonical
4 March 2019

Canonical
1 March 2019

MAAS – Fast and efficient virtualisation for small and medium enterprises

Article Cloud and server

The advent of virtualisation has significantly changed the way we use IT infrastructure. In theory, the ability to share single server resources to run multiple isolated operating systems provides flexibility and promises easy operations. However, in practice, managing virtualised infrastructure can be quite expensive...

Canonical
1 March 2019

Kyle Fazzari
28 February 2019

Building ROS 2 snaps with Colcon

Article Internet of Things

The snapcraft CLI has supported building ROS1 snaps for a while via the catkin plugin. We supported the ROS2 betas via the ament plugin, but that was before Open Robotics had a ROS2 package repository setup, which meant that the ament plugin built the ROS2 underlay from source, and it was predictably dreadfully slow. However,

Kyle Fazzari
28 February 2019

Canonical
28 February 2019

Canonical adds containerd to Ubuntu Kubernetes

Article Canonical announcements

February 28, 2019 – Canonical today announced support for containerd in its 1.14 releases of Charmed Kubernetes and Microk8s, improving security and robustness. “Containerd has become the industry-standard container runtime focused on simplicity, robustness and portability.” said Carmine Rimi, product manager for...

Canonical
28 February 2019

Igor Ljubuncic
28 February 2019

How to backup your application settings

Article Desktop

A reliable data backup plan should be an integral part of everyone’s software arsenal. If you accidentally delete your files, or something goes wrong in your setup, you will have your data safely stored in another location. This will allow you to recover quickly and resume working. Likewise, if you suffer a hardware failure or

Igor Ljubuncic
28 February 2019

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