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"Tutorial"

Valentin Viennot
10 January 2023

DIY chiselled Ubuntu: crafting your own chiselled Ubuntu base image

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

In a previous post, I explained how we made our Ubuntu image 15 times smaller by chiselling a specific slice of Ubuntu for .NET developers. In this blog, I will provide step-by-step instructions on customising your chiselled Ubuntu base images for any use case. Chiselled Ubuntu containers combine Distroless and Ubuntu to create smaller, m ...

Tytus Kurek
2 February 2022

Open source cloud platform: meet OpenStack

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Are you looking for an open source cloud platform and you don’t know where to start? Are you getting lost in all the independent rankings and cloud platform comparison pages? Try OpenStack and get your open source cloud platform up and running today. OpenStack works at any scale: from a single workstation to thousands of ...

Igor Ljubuncic
21 January 2022

Let’s build a snap together – a complex snapcraft.yaml walkthrough

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

It has been a while since we talked about how to build snaps. In the past, we went through a number of detailed examples, focused on different programming languages and the use of various useful components that can be declared in snapcraft.yaml, like extensions, stage packages, layouts, and more. Today, we want to give you ...

Rhys Davies
25 May 2021

Raspberry Pi GPIO support in Ubuntu

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

We are proud to announce that Ubuntu 21.04 includes support for the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi. This has been a long time coming. We know. With support for the camera modules and Bluetooth added last year GPIO was the obvious next step. But with our Raspberry Pi focused engineers working to make sure ...

Maciej Mazur
5 April 2021

Ubuntu for machine learning with NVIDIA RAPIDS in 10 min

AI Ubuntu tech blog

10 minutes tutorial on how to set up Ubuntu for machine learning, data science and data analytics using NVIDIA RAPIDS, NGC Containers and Anaconda. ...

Rhys Davies
30 April 2020

How to use the Raspberry Pi High Quality camera on Ubuntu Core

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

The new High Quality (HQ) camera from the people over at Raspberry Pi is now available. And as they say, it is really rather good. It has the option for interchangeable lenses, a 12 MP sensor, a distinct improvement from the previous 8MP V2 camera, and a tripod screw mount. In this post, I’ll walk ...

Rhys Davies
13 March 2020

How to install Ubuntu with the new Raspberry Pi Imager

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently released their new “Raspberry Pi Imager” and we love it.  It’s a new tool that makes getting going with the Raspberry Pi easier than ever. All it takes is a simple install and three clicks before you have an SDcard ready for Pi. In this article, I’m going to talk ...

Ted Kern
6 March 2020

ROS 2 CI with GitHub Actions

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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 on a variety of different systems. They work great on Ubuntu targets and preliminary support is already present for MacOS and Windows, making them a great option ...

Ted Kern
14 December 2019

How to build ROS 2 Eloquent Snaps

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

The end of 2019 brings about the latest ROS 2 release – Eloquent Elusor. Despite an ever growing set of features and some changes throughout the ecosystem, packaging with snaps is as easy as always. Let’s go through a quick example! Prerequisites You’ll need two tools: “snapcraft,” the program that builds snaps, and “multipass,” the ...

Ted Kern
21 August 2019

How to add a linter to ROS 2

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

A well configured linter can catch common errors before code is even run or compiled. ROS 2 makes it easy to add linters of your choice and make them part of your package’s testing pipeline. We’ll step through the process, from start to finish, of adding a linter to ament so it can be used ...

Ted Kern
15 August 2019

Linting ROS 2 Packages with mypy

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

One of the most common complaints from developers moving into large Python codebases is the difficulty in figuring out type information, and the ease by which type mismatch errors can appear at runtime. Python 3.5 added support for a type annotation system, described in PEP 484. Python 3.6+ expands this with individual variable annotation ...

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