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Robot lifecycle management with Ubuntu
By galemk, 19 July 2019
Lifecycle management entails fulfilling changing requirements over time. However, there is a gap that the existing robot development frameworks do not address, making it challenging to tackle system-level requirements (fault tolerance, system safety, maintainability, interoperability or …
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 and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in any …
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 online Snapcraft Build Service. Now, a new preview feature …
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 distributions and manage them in a way similar to virtual machines (VMs) …
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 Snapcraft Summit, Mike Miller and Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso of the Octave team …
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 segments. If you are new to edge computing architectures, of which there are several, the following …
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 enhances MAAS across various areas. Let’s talk about a few notable ones: …
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 result in fragmentation, slow updates, security issues, increased cost, and reduced reliability of platforms. …
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 that develop and maintain most …
Machine Learning: serving models with Kubeflow on Ubuntu, Part 1
By Carmine Rimi, 8 July 2019
This article is the first in a series of machine learning articles focusing on model serving. I assume you’re reading this article because you’re excited about machine learning and quite possibly Kubeflow as well. You might …
Analyze ACPI Tables in a Text File with FWTS
By Alex Hung, 8 July 2019
I often need to implement tests for new ACPI tables before they become available on real hardware. Fortunately, FWTS provides a framework to read ACPI tables’ binary. The below technique is especially convenient for ACPI firmware …
Ubuntu updates for TCP SACK Panic vulnerabilities
By Canonical, 5 July 2019
Issues have been identified in the way the Linux kernel’s TCP implementation processes Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) options and handles low Maximum Segment Size (MSS) values. These TCP SACK Panic vulnerabilities could expose servers to a denial …