Tutorials archives

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How to colourise black & white pictures with OpenVINO™ on Ubuntu containers (Part 2)

By Valentin Viennot, 9 December 2021

This blog is the last part of a series – don’t miss parts one and zero. We’re on a mission to demonstrate OpenVINO™ on Ubuntu containers; from the...

Deploy Container on Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud

By Hugo Huang, 6 December 2021

Since I wrote Launch Ubuntu Desktop on Google Cloud last week, I kept thinking about putting Ubuntu Desktop into containers. A container is an independent...

Launch Ubuntu Desktop on Google Cloud

By Hugo Huang, 29 November 2021

This tutorial shows you how to set up a Ubuntu Desktop on Google Cloud. If you need a graphic interface to your virtual desktop on the cloud, this tutorial...

FIPS on Google Cloud

By Hugo Huang, 22 November 2021

In August 2016, the United States government announced a new federal source-code policy, which mandates that at least 20% of custom source code developed by...

CIS-Harden your Ubuntu in Google Cloud

By Hugo Huang, 9 November 2021

CIS Benchmarks are best practices for the secure configuration of a target system. The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) is the authority backing CIS...

Securing the Open-Source supply chain with Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud

By Hugo Huang, 1 November 2021

It’s official: since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercrime has increased by 600%. Among these, ransomware attacks are estimated to cost $6...

How to build a snap using ROS 2 Foxy

By Kyle Fazzari, 17 August 2020

The snapcraft CLI (the tool used to create snaps) has long had support for building snaps that use both ROS 1 and ROS 2. ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy is the latest ROS...

Installing ROS in LXD Containers

By sidfaber, 29 June 2020

It’s the season for updates. The last few weeks have ushered in ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2 Foxy, both of which target the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 Focal...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is certified for the Raspberry Pi

By Rhys Davies, 8 May 2020

The release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS was April 23, 2020. On the same day, Canonical added full support for Ubuntu Server 20.04 on all of the Raspberry Pis that we...

ROS Development with LXD

By Ted Kern, 6 March 2020

Linux containers allow for easy isolation of developer environments. If you’re often working with a bunch of different ROS versions, it’s a lot easier to do...

ROS 2 CI with GitHub Actions

By Ted Kern, 6 March 2020

The ROS 2 Tooling Working Group (chaired by AWS RoboMaker) has been hard at work producing a neat set of GitHub Actions for building and testing ROS packages...