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21 February 2017

DAQRI showcases Ubuntu powered augmented reality helmet at MWC

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Fabrice Etienne from DAQRI®, leading enterprise augmented reality company. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com DAQRI® are going to be on the Ubuntu booth at Mobile World Congress to showcase the DAQRI Smart Helmet®. The DAQRI Smart Helmet, powered by an Ubuntu A ...


Canonical
20 February 2017

IOTA: IoT revolutionised with a ledger

Internet of Things Article

Ever since the introduction of digital money, the world quickly came to realize how dire and expensive the consequences of centralized systems are. Not only are these systems incredibly expensive to maintain, they are also “single points of failures” which expose a large number of users to unexpected service interruptions, fraudulent acti ...


Stéphane Graber
20 February 2017

Running Kubernetes inside LXD

Cloud and server Article

Introduction For those who haven’t heard of Kubernetes before, it’s defined by the upstream project as: Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical … 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 ...


Maarten Ectors
17 February 2017

MWC17: The future of wireless networks

Internet of Things Article

The telecom industry is not as buoyant as it was some years back. Telecom operators ‘ revenues are under pressure due to innovations from over the top players. Costs are spiralling out of control because of 4/5G deployments, fibre to the premise, social networking data explosions, 4K video streaming, IoT and more. Time to market ...


Canonical
16 February 2017

Lime Microsystems and Canonical announce LimeNET crowdfunding

Internet of Things Article

Sequel to initial $1million successful crowdfunding campaign follow hugely successful first round of crowdfunding for open-source, 5G and IoT capable SDR with app stores Second round will provide a market for round-one developers to sell their apps on the first open source mobile and IoT base station with app stores New revenues for telco ...


Jorge O. Castro
15 February 2017

Deploying Kubernetes on bare metal

Cloud and server Videos

Fast forward to 6 minutes, 42 seconds to begin the demo. In this demo Marco Ceppi deploys a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on 10 nodes. If you’re interested in bare metal Kubernetes, we invite you to join us and other contributors in the sig-onprem community. Not sure how to get started? Join us in our ...


Samuel Cozannet
15 February 2017

GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 1/3

Cloud and server Article

A few weeks ago I shared a side project about Building a DYI GPU cluster for k8s to play with Kubernetes with a proper ROI vs. AWS g2 instances. This was spectacularly interesting when AWS was lagging behind with old nVidia K20s cards (which are not supported anymore on the latest drivers). But with the ...


Guest
14 February 2017

The Nextcloud Box at MWC

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Frank Karlitschek, Founder of the Nextcloud box. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com At the Mobile World Congress this February, Nextcloud will showcase a device built to to allow users to bring their their data back under their control in a very literal ...


Stéphane Graber
14 February 2017

Network management with LXD (2.3+)

Cloud and server Article

Introduction When LXD 2.0 shipped with Ubuntu 16.04, LXD networking was pretty simple. You could either use that “lxdbr0” bridge that “lxd init” would have you configure, provide your own or just use an existing physical interface for your containers. … Continue reading → ...


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 ...