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299 posts from 2019
MicroK8s in the Wild
By Konstantinos Tsakalozos, 28 March 2019
Canonical released MicroK8s in December 2018, and as its popularity has grown, some interesting projects using this micro Kubernetes distribution have...
Snap startup time improvements
By Igor Ljubuncic, 28 March 2019
Several months ago, we shared an article titled I have a need, a need for snap that detailed the application performance results of snaps compared to their...
Kubernetes 1.14 now available from Canonical
By Canonical, 25 March 2019
March 25, 2019 Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.14 using kubeadm deployments, its Charmed Kubernetes, and MicroK8s, its popular...
Snapcraft Summit Montreal
By Martin Wimpress, 22 March 2019
Following previous events in New York, Seattle, and London, the fourth Snapcraft Summit is taking place in Montreal, Canada from June 11th to 13th 2019. We...
Magic Wormhole – Send files with ease
By Igor Ljubuncic, 21 March 2019
Sharing is caring. Alexander the Great File transfer is the bread and butter of information exchange in the digital world. Documents, photos, videos, we share...
Design and Web team summary – 15 March 2019
By Peter Mahnke, 20 March 2019
This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web team Homepage takeovers...
Debug ACPI DSDT and SSDT with ACPICA Utilities
By Alex Hung, 20 March 2019
Using acpidbg on Ubuntu 18.04 x64 can be quite handy; however, the Linux kernel with ACPI_DEBUGGER is not always available, such as on Ubuntu for ARM. In such...
The path to Ubuntu Core
By Eric Jensen, 18 March 2019
At Canonical, helping customers overcome their challenges is what we do every day. In the IoT world, a common challenge we encounter is customers who are...
Vertical rhythm and spacing in Vanilla Framework 2.0
By Lyubomir Popov, 15 March 2019
Overview of the typographic improvements to our CSS framework introduced over the past 12 months.
Porting Ubuntu Core 18 on Nvidia Jetson TX1 Developer Kit
By alfonsosanchezbeato, 15 March 2019
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...
Make your snap development faster
By Igor Ljubuncic, 14 March 2019
“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....
ROS 2 launch: required nodes
By Kyle Fazzari, 11 March 2019
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...