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Blog posts tagged
"Tutorial"


David Callé
2 February 2018

Tutorial: Install single-server OpenStack with conjure-up

Cloud and server Tutorials

OpenStack is the de facto open source standard to build private and public clouds. We believe deploying and getting familiar with OpenStack should be an easy task for all developers, that’s why we have built conjure-up, a simple interface to deploy big software with best practices built-in. In this tutorial, you will learn how to ...


David Callé
30 January 2018

Tutorial: Install Ubuntu on a Chromebook

Desktop Tutorials

Chromebooks have gained popularity as relatively inexpensive web-centric laptops. They give access to web-based and native applications through the Chrome store, but what if you want to do more with them? Installing Ubuntu on a Chromebook gives you more choice and lets you turn a web-centric machine into any other laptop: you can install ...


Kyle Fazzari
21 January 2018

Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]

Desktop Article

This is the second blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we walked through all the hardware necessary to follow this series, and introduced Ubuntu Core, the operating system for IoT devices. We installed it on our Raspberry Pi, and used it to ...


David Callé
19 January 2018

Tutorial: Continuous delivery of snaps with Circle CI

Desktop Tutorials

Bullet-proof continuous delivery of software is crucial to the health of your community, more than a way to run manual tests, it also enables your early adopters to test code and give feedback on it as soon as it lands. You may be already using build.snapcraft.io to do so for snaps, but in some cases, ...


David Callé
15 November 2017

How to turn your website into a desktop app

Desktop Article

Turning your website into a desktop integrated app is a relatively simple thing to do, but distributing it as such and making it noticeable in app stores is another story. This tutorial will show you how to leverage Electron and snaps to create a desktop web app from scratch and release it on a multi-million ...


Canonical
18 October 2017

MAAS KVM Pods

Cloud and server Article

This is a guest post by Michael Iatrou, cloud solutions architect at Canonical OpenStack is the dominant solution in the IaaS space, fueled by the need for reliable, scalable and interoperable private cloud infrastructure to accommodate cloud native applications. Through OpenStack’s open APIs, tenants can easily deploy elaborate virtual ( ...


Marco Ceppi
17 August 2017

How to set up Kubernetes with conjure-up and monitor apps with Weave

Cloud and server Article

On August 2, Luke Marsden (Weaveworks) and Marco Ceppi (Canonical) presented a webinar on how to Speed up your software development lifecycle with Kubernetes. In the session they described how you can use conjure-up and Weave Cloud to set up, manage and monitor an app in Kubernetes. In this tutorial we’re going to show you ...


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 ...


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 ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 March 2017

Video tutorial: learn how to install MAAS

Cloud and server Videos

This short video offers step-by-step instructions on how to install MAAS (Metal as a Service) to your machine. Before you start you’ll need: One small server for MAAS and at least one server which can be managed with a BMC. It is recommended to have the MAAS server provide DHCP and DNS on a network the ...