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sidfaber
24 July 2020

Simulate the TurtleBot3

Article Robotics

Interested in getting started in robotics? There’s no need to purchase expensive hardware before you try some things out: simulate a TurtleBot3 instead! The simulator is complete with LIDAR, a camera, a gyro and many other sensors and actuators. You can also see this installation in action at the Ubuntu Robotics YouTube...

sidfaber
24 July 2020

Jeremie Deray
3 July 2020

Feeling at home in a LXD container

Article Robotics

In this post, we will see how we can containerize our home in LXD simply managing our personal configuration files – a.k.a. dotfiles. Yeah dotfiles, named after their common ~/.my_config form, you know, all of those small configuration files lying across our $HOME. In other words, how one can change the house while keeping the

Jeremie Deray
3 July 2020

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
29 June 2020

Data centre automation for HPC

Webinar Cloud and server

Friction points in HPC DevOps Many High Performance Computing (HPC) setups are still handcrafted configurations where tuning changes can take days or weeks. This is because the more you tune and optimise something, the more bespoke and unique it is, and the more unique something is, the lower the chances that things...

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
29 June 2020

sidfaber
29 June 2020

Installing ROS in LXD Containers

Article Cloud and server

It’s the season for updates. The last few weeks have ushered in ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2 Foxy, both of which target the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa. As always, new releases come with trepidation: how can I install new software and test compatibility, yet keep my own environment stable until I know

sidfaber
29 June 2020

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
24 June 2020

MAAS 2.8 – new features

Article MAAS

What’s new? This new release of MAAS brings three key new benefits: Virtual machines with LXD (Beta) Tighter, more responsive UX External/remote PostgreSQL database If you know what you want, go to maas.io/install, otherwise let’s dive in and explore these further. Virtual machines (VMs) with LXD (Beta) MAAS 2.8 can set...

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
24 June 2020

Canonical
15 June 2020

OVHcloud drives flash storage strategy with LXD

Article Ceph

With more than 1.5 million global customers – including Sainsburys and Michelin – OVHcloud is Europe’s largest cloud computing provider, and the third largest web hosting company in the world. It goes without saying that storage is mission critical for an organisation like OVHcloud, but finding a solution that was...

Canonical
15 June 2020

Ted Kern
6 March 2020

ROS Development with LXD

Article Internet of Things

Linux containers allow for easy isolation of developer environments. If you’re often working with a bunch of different ROS versions, it’s a lot easier to do your work entirely in containers. Getting Started You’ll first need to install LXD using snap. Note Throughout this guide I will be using the hostname to...

Ted Kern
6 March 2020

Camille Rodriguez
17 October 2019

Kubernetes on a single machine

Article Cloud and server

As developers, we do not always have access to a production-like environment to test new features and run proof-of-concepts. This is why it can be very interesting to deploy Kubernetes on a single machine. Of course, there is the new microk8s snap that allows a super fast deployment of a k8s cluster on a laptop

Camille Rodriguez
17 October 2019

joemcmanus
29 August 2019

LXD in 4 Easy Steps

Article Cloud and server

I needed to install a clean instance of Bionic to test some code, but I did not want to use a full virtual machine as I was in a hurry. To do this, I used LXD to quickly deploy new Bionic and Xenial instances in minutes. If you are not familiar with LXD, it is

joemcmanus
29 August 2019

Alex Cattle
18 July 2019

How to build a lightweight system container cluster

Article Cloud and server

LXD, the system container manager, developed by Canonical and shipped by default with Ubuntu, makes it possible to create many containers of various Linux distributions and manage them in a way similar to virtual machines (VMs) but with lower overhead costs associated with them. Unlike VMs, containers have the benefit...

Alex Cattle
18 July 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

Stéphane Graber
26 February 2019

Using LXD on your Chromebook

Article Cloud and server

Introduction On supported Chromebook, starting with Chrome OS 69, a new feature called Linux Apps was introduced. This allows Chrome OS users, on supported to install normal Linux applications from the Debian repository and have them integrate with the underlying Chrome OS desktop. The feature has evolved quite a bit...

Stéphane Graber
26 February 2019

Michael Iatrou
5 December 2018

Minimum viable Kubernetes

Article Cloud and server

The appeal of Kubernetes is universal. Application development, operations and infrastructure teams recognise diverse reasons for its immediate utility and growing potential — a testament of Kubernetes’ empathetic design. Web apps, galvanised by the 12 factor pattern as well as microservice-structured applications find...

Michael Iatrou
5 December 2018

Simon Fels
29 November 2018

Running Android in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 A1 instances

Article Cloud and server

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of their new Amazon EC2 A1 instances powered by custom AWS Graviton processors based on the Arm architecture, which brings Arm to the public cloud as a first class citizen. Arm based processors provide a number of benefits in terms of density and power-consumption...

Simon Fels
29 November 2018

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