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David Callé
2 February 2017

Run scripts during snapcraft builds with “scriptlets”

Internet of Things Article

Please note: this blog post is over 5 years old and is out of date. Scriptlets have been superseded by Overrides. If you have snapped an application, or tried to snap an application, you know that Snapcraft heavily depends on built-in plugins for specific build systems and that it provides a large array of choices ...


Inayaili de León Persson
1 February 2017

January’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the first month of 2017: A Guide to 2017 Conferences Information Literacy Is a Design Problem Pattern patter. CLARK FROM INVISION, FOREVER! The Imbalance of Culture Fit a big list of good news from 2016 Calculate the ideal height of your ergonomic desk, chair ...


Maarten Ectors
31 January 2017

Industrial IoT revolution with Raspberry Pi compute module 3

Internet of Things Article

The Raspberry Pi Foundation released a long awaited version of their Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3. The great news is that you get 4GB storage, 1GB memory and the same processor as the Raspberry Pi 3 for $30. This means that it now becomes a real solution for anybody wanting to build industrial products and ...


Canonical
30 January 2017

48% of people unaware their IoT devices pose a security threat

Internet of Things Article

LONDON, U.K. – 30 January, 2017 – Nearly half (48%) of citizens remain unaware that their connected devices could be infiltrated and used to conduct a cyber attack. That’s according to a new IoT security whitepaper which was published today by Canonical – the makers of Ubuntu. The report, which includes research from over 2,000 ...


Samuel Cozannet
30 January 2017

Installing a DIY bare metal GPU cluster for Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

I don’t know if you have ever seen one of the Orange Boxes from Canonical These are really sleek machines. They contain 10 Intel NUCs, plus an 11th one for the management. They are used as a demonstration tool for big software stacks such as OpenStack, Hadoop, and, of course, Kubernetes. They are freely available ...


David Callé
28 January 2017

Ubuntu Core – how to enable aliases for your snaps commands

Internet of Things Article

We are happy to announce that a new version of Ubuntu Core, based on snapd 2.21, has been released to the stable snaps channel yesterday. As with any stable release, your Ubuntu Core devices will update and reboot automatically. If you are using snaps on the desktop, the release will reach you through a snapd ...


Amrisha Prashar
27 January 2017

Award-winning drone technology with Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

The market for drones is exploding as businesses and individuals embrace them. The global market for commercial applications of drone technology will balloon to as much as $127 billion by 2020 up from £2billion today (PWC.) Aerotenna is one of those innovators making this vision a reality. Aerotenna’s award-winning technology seeks to sol ...


Kyle Fazzari
27 January 2017

ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Article

Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf. I even tried building ROS Indigo from source for arm64 about a year ago, but ran into dependency issues with a missing sbcl. Well, with surprisingly little fanfare, ROS Kinetic was released with support for arm64 in their prebuilt archive! I thought it ...


James Donner
27 January 2017

Deploying The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes onto AWS

Cloud and server Article

  This week, we announced the availability of release 1.5.2 of The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. This is a pure upstream kubernetes developed in collaboration with Google that works across all major public clouds and private infrastructure. We’re excited for people to try out the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes, so we’ve put ...


Guest
26 January 2017

Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Recently the ubuntu-app-platform snap has been made available in the store for application developers to build their snaps without bundling all their dependencies. The ubuntu-app-platform ...


Jorge O. Castro
24 January 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes – Release 1.5.2

Cloud and server Article

We’re proud to announce support for Kubernetes 1.5.2 in the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. This is a pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes, designed to be easily deployable to public clouds, on-premises (ie vsphere, openstack), bare metal, and developer laptops. Kubernetes 1.5.2 is a patch release comprised of mostly bugfixes, a ...