Internet of Things archives
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API v3 of the yaml package for Go is available
By Gustavo Niemeyer, 5 April 2019
API v3 of the yaml package for Go is out, and it brings comment handling, intermediate node representations, and much more. The initial sketch for v3 of the...
AWS IoT Greengrass released as a snap
By Canonical, 2 April 2019
Canonical and AWS are excited to announce the public release of AWS IoT Greengrass as a snap. AWS IoT Greengrass is software that brings local compute,...
Snapcraft Summit Montreal
By Martin Wimpress, 22 March 2019
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...
Design and Web team summary – 15 March 2019
By Peter Mahnke, 20 March 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 team Homepage takeovers...
The path to Ubuntu Core
By Eric Jensen, 18 March 2019
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...
Porting Ubuntu Core 18 on Nvidia Jetson TX1 Developer Kit
By alfonsosanchezbeato, 15 March 2019
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...
ROS 2 launch: required nodes
By Kyle Fazzari, 11 March 2019
When using the Robot Operating System (ROS), it’s fairly common to want to shut down a launched system if a specific node (or set of nodes) exits. This is...
Canonical at NVIDIA GTC 2019
By Canonical, 7 March 2019
Canonical will be attending Nvidia’s GTC Conference in San Jose, California March 18 – 21, 2019.
Infographic: Snapcraft for developers
By Canonical, 6 March 2019
At the end of last year, we shared an infographic highlighting the adoption of snaps by users for their desktop, server or IoT devices. Those snaps wouldn’t...
Building ROS 2 snaps with Colcon
By Kyle Fazzari, 28 February 2019
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...
Single-Node Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s and Ubuntu
By Calvin Hartwell, 27 February 2019
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...
Securing IoT device data against physical access
By Sarah Dickinson, 26 February 2019
Security remains the number one concern when designing and deploying IoT devices. High profile breaches continue to occur and concerns cease to subside. For...