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Blog posts tagged
"developers"


Sarah Dickinson
10 May 2017

Why language choices can be irrelevant when choosing the right IoT OS

Internet of Things Article

This is the first in a series of two blogs exploring the finding from the latest Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. A couple of months ago we posted a blog inviting developers to contribute to the 3rd Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. The 2017 results are now published with a total of 713 respondents, from all ...


Kyle Fazzari
9 May 2017

ROS production: create Ubuntu Core image with snap preinstalled [5/5]

Internet of Things Article

This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a gadget snap to allow confined access to the Turtlebot. In this post, we’re going to put all the pieces from this series together and create an Ubuntu Core image with our ROS snap preinstalled, ...


Kyle Fazzari
27 April 2017

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

Internet of Things Article

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
21 April 2017

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

Internet of Things Article

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 ...


Samuel Cozannet
19 April 2017

How we commoditised GPUs for Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

[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 ...


Kyle Fazzari
13 April 2017

ROS production: our prototype [2/5]

Internet of Things Article

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 ...


Marco Ceppi
12 April 2017

General availability of Kubernetes 1.6 on Ubuntu

Cloud and server News

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 grade method for in ...


David Callé
11 April 2017

Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 and 26

Desktop Article

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) ...


Kyle Fazzari
6 April 2017

From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

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 numerous posts discussing ...


Stéphane Graber
27 February 2017

Ubuntu Core in LXD containers

Cloud and server Article

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 → ...


Sergio Schvezov
17 February 2017

Snapcraft 2.27 has been released

Cloud and server Article

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 Kit Randel Loïc Mini ...


Amrisha Prashar
13 February 2017

Eclipse foundation: IoT developer survey

Internet of Things Article

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 initiative once ...