Blog posts tagged
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Kyle Fazzari
27 April 2017

ROS production: obtaining confined access to the Turtlebot [4/5]

Article Internet of Things

This is the fourth blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a snap of our prototype, and released it into the store. In this post, we’re going to work toward an Ubuntu Core image by creating what’s called a gadget snap. A gadget snap contains information such as

Kyle Fazzari
27 April 2017

Kyle Fazzari
21 April 2017

ROS production: our prototype as a snap [3/5]

Article Internet of Things

This is the third blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we came up with a simple ROS prototype. In this post we’ll package that prototype as a snap. For justifications behind why we’re doing this, please see the first post in the series. We know from the previous post

Kyle Fazzari
21 April 2017

Samuel Cozannet
19 April 2017

How we commoditised GPUs for Kubernetes

Article Cloud and server

[Edit 2017-04-20] A careful reader informed me (thanks for that HN user puzzle) that it is no longer required to run in privileged mode to access the GPUs in K8s. I therefore removed a note that previously stated this requirement, and am in the process of updating my Helm charts to remove it as well

Samuel Cozannet
19 April 2017

Kyle Fazzari
13 April 2017

ROS production: our prototype [2/5]

Article Internet of Things

This is the second blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we discussed why Ubuntu Core was a good fit for production robotics. In this post we’ll be on classic Ubuntu, creating the example ROS prototype that we’ll use throughout the rest of the series as we work toward using

Kyle Fazzari
13 April 2017

Marco Ceppi
12 April 2017

General availability of Kubernetes 1.6 on Ubuntu

News Cloud and server

We are proud to release the latest Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) supporting Kubernetes version 1.6.1! Kubernetes 1.6 is a major milestone and it is recommended that you read the upstream release notes for new features and changes. GA Features Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes, CDK, offers a production...

Marco Ceppi
12 April 2017

David Callé
11 April 2017

Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 and 26

Article Desktop

As part as our mission to get snaps running everywhere, we are pleased to announce that support for snaps has now officially landed in Fedora, starting with Fedora 24 and up. Big thanks to Neal Gompa who has been instrumental in landing snapd packages in the Fedora archive! Install your first snap on Fedora 1)

David Callé
11 April 2017

Kyle Fazzari
6 April 2017

From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct. For latest updated documentation about robotics in Canonical please visit https://ubuntu.com/robotics/docs. My background is pretty heavily littered with robotics. A natural side effect of this is that I’ve published...

Kyle Fazzari
6 April 2017

Stéphane Graber
27 February 2017

Ubuntu Core in LXD containers

Article Cloud and server

What’s Ubuntu Core? Ubuntu Core is a version of Ubuntu that’s fully transactional and entirely based on snap packages. Most of the system is read-only. All installed applications come from snap packages and all updates are done using transactions. Meaning … Continue reading →

Stéphane Graber
27 February 2017

Sergio Schvezov
17 February 2017

Snapcraft 2.27 has been released

Article Cloud and server

Hello snapcrafters! We are pleased to announce the release snapcraft 2.27: https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.27 Contributions This release has seen some contributions from outside of the snapcraft core team, so we want to give a shout out to these folks, here’s a team thank you for: Colin Watson John Lenton...

Sergio Schvezov
17 February 2017

Amrisha Prashar
13 February 2017

Eclipse foundation: IoT developer survey

Article Internet of Things

The third annual IoT Developer Survey, hosted by Eclipse IoT has just been launched. In previous years it has provided interesting insights about how developers are building IoT solutions, for example – did you know that 73% of people use Linux to develop their IoT projects? – Canonical is pleased to support this...

Amrisha Prashar
13 February 2017

Sergio Schvezov
3 February 2017

Snapcraft 2.26 has been released

Article Internet of Things

Hello snapcrafters! We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.26 of snapcraft has been released: https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.26 Contributions This release has seen some contributions from outside of the snapcraft core team, so we want to give a shout out to these folks, here’s a team thank you...

Sergio Schvezov
3 February 2017

David Callé
9 January 2017

How to snap: introducing classic confinement

Article Desktop

Last Thursday, January 5, the snapd team was delighted to announce a new release of snapd (2.20), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides the snap command. It’s time we take a look at the most prominent feature of this release: classic confinement. A new relaxed security policy for snaps, aimed at

David Callé
9 January 2017

David Callé
12 December 2016

snapd 2.18: the snap command strikes back

Article Internet of Things

Last Thursday, December 8, the snapd team was happy to announce a new release of snapd (2.18), the daemon that enables systems to work with snaps and provides the snap command. It’s time we take a look at what makes this release stand out. A brief tour of new snap commands (and the improved snap find) On

David Callé
12 December 2016

Didier Roche
8 December 2016

Christmas-music-carousel-snap

Article Internet of Things

Ding ding ding! It’s Christmas time, and as part of the festive competition we’re hosting that asks you to build a seasonal snap on your RaspberryPi…we couldn’t help but try out another example of our own. Didier from the dev team has created a Christmas music carousel snap! The snap allows you to play a

Didier Roche
8 December 2016

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