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Blog posts with topic "ubuntu-core"

Martin Wimpress
22 March 2019

Snapcraft Summit Montreal

Cloud and server Article

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 have partnered with Travis CI this time and also expanded the scope of the event to three tracks. Snapcraft Summit Snapcraft is the universal app store for Linux that ...

Eric Jensen
18 March 2019

The path to Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

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 interested in transitioning to Ubuntu Core and the snapcraft.io ecosystem, but are unsure how to begin. This post covers the recommended approach. In most cases, it’s relatively easy for ...

alfonsosanchezbeato
15 March 2019

Porting Ubuntu Core 18 on Nvidia Jetson TX1 Developer Kit

Internet of Things Tutorials

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 other boards, when there is no community port, one needs to create one on their own. This is the the case if one wants to run Ubuntu Core 18 ...

Kyle Fazzari
28 February 2019

Building ROS 2 snaps with Colcon

Internet of Things Article

The snapcraft CLI has supported building ROS1 snaps for a while via the catkin plugin. We supported the ROS2 betas via the ament plugin, but that was before Open Robotics had a ROS2 package repository setup, which meant that the ament plugin built the ROS2 underlay from source, and it was predictably dreadfully slow. However, ...

Calvin Hartwell
27 February 2019

Single-Node Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s and Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

Introduction The goal of this blog post is to explain how to setup and run Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s on-top to provide a single-node Kubernetes host for development and testing. In the last few months Ubuntu Server 18.04 has been ported to run the Raspberry Pi 2/3 which means we can ...

Sarah Dickinson
26 February 2019

Securing IoT device data against physical access

Internet of Things Article

Security remains the number one concern when designing and deploying IoT devices. High profile breaches continue to occur and concerns cease to subside. For any organisation, security needs to be front of mind and considered from the start – not as an afterthought. Having no mechanism in which to address security concerns can be as ...

Sarah Dickinson
20 February 2019

How selecting the right Linux OS expedites IoT time to market

Internet of Things Article

With a proliferation of related hardware, software and solutions being rushed out to capture the promise of a multi-billion dollar IoT industry, vendors are under pressure to decrease their development time and speed up their time to market. Choices such as selecting the right infrastructure from the outset become even more important duri ...

Robert Ancell
19 February 2019

Easy IoT with Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi

Internet of Things Article

My current job involves me mostly working in the upper layers of the desktop software stack however I started out working in what was then called embedded engineering but now would probably be know as the Internet of Things (IoT). I worked on a number of projects which normally involved taking some industrial equipment (radio ...

Eric Jensen
15 February 2019

The forecast is robots

Internet of Things Article

Robots are an increasingly important part of our lives, in more ways than we realise. I’m not talking just about Roombas, or the toy robots that inhabit the wish lists of the world’s children (and the young at heart). Robots are increasingly behind the scenes, powering the modern world we experience daily. From clothing to ...

Igor Ljubuncic
31 January 2019

Where eagles snap – A closer look

Desktop Desktop

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about snap security, taking a journey through the eyes of a developer and handing over to a user who wants to install applications from the Snap Store. We discussed concepts like application confinement, interfaces, store review, and automatic updates. Today, we will look under the hood, and examine ...

Canonical
22 January 2019

Ubuntu Core 18 released for secure, reliable IoT devices

Internet of Things Canonical News

Canonical today published Ubuntu Core 18, bringing the popular Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to high-security embedded devices. “Dell has been working closely with Canonical over the past three years to certify Ubuntu Core on all our Edge Gateway platforms. Ubuntu Core enables our customers to build highly secure, stable IoT solutions that deliver the ...

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