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29 posts from July 2019
Getting started with Ubuntu Core – streaming video from a Raspberry Pi
By Galem KAYO, 23 July 2019
Artificial intelligence relies on machine vision just as much as human intelligence relies on vision. Image sensors are, therefore, crucial for AI...
Community Snapcrafter on MicroK8s, summits and the evolving nature of snaps
By Sarah Dickinson, 23 July 2019
In January 2018, Dani Llewellyn joined her first Snapcraft Summit in Seattle in her role as a community Snapcrafter. At that event, we discussed her views on...
Robot lifecycle management with Ubuntu
By Galem KAYO, 19 July 2019
Lifecycle management entails fulfilling changing requirements over time. However, there is a gap that the existing robot development frameworks do not...
CMake leverages the Snapcraft Summit with Travis CI to build snaps
By Sarah Dickinson, 18 July 2019
CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. It is used to control the software compilation process...
Handy snapcraft features: Remote build
By Igor Ljubuncic, 18 July 2019
As you probably know, there are many ways you can build snaps: locally using snapcraft, with CI systems like Travis, through Launchpad, and also via the free...
How to build a lightweight system container cluster
By Alex Cattle, 18 July 2019
LXD, the system container manager, developed by Canonical and shipped by default with Ubuntu, makes it possible to create many containers of various Linux...
Octave turns to snaps to reduce dependency on Linux distribution maintainers
By Sarah Dickinson, 15 July 2019
Octave is a numerical computing environment largely compatible with MATLAB. As free software, Octave runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD, and Windows. At the 2019...
Deploying Kubernetes at the edge – Part I: building blocks
By Carmine Rimi, 11 July 2019
Edge computing continues to gain momentum to help solve unique challenges across telco, media, transportation, logistics, agricultural and other market...
MAAS 2.6 – ESXi storage, multiple gateways, HTTP boot and more
By Andres Rodriguez, 9 July 2019
Canonical is happy to announce the availability of MAAS 2.6. This new release introduces a range of very exciting features and several improvements that...
The DevOps guide to IoT projects
By Alex Cattle, 9 July 2019
Traditional development methods do not scale into the IoT sphere. Strong inter-dependencies and blurred boundaries among components in the edge device stack...
Canonical Design Blog: Design and Web team summary – 8 July 2019
By Anthony Dillon, 8 July 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 squadWeb is the squad that...
Design and Web team summary – 8 July 2019
By Anthony Dillon, 8 July 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 squad Web is the squad...