snapcraft
Cloud and server
Managing your physical infrastructure from the top of rack switch
by Canonical on 21 October 2016
At the last OpenStack Design Summit in Austin, TX we showed you a preview of deploying your physical server and network infrastructure from the top-of-rack...
Internet of Things
The new Ubuntu Core 16 beta image is out!
by didrocks on 7 October 2016
The Snappy team is happy to announce the Feature Freeze of Ubuntu Core 16, which means all the major features planned for the stable series 16 image have...
Internet of Things
Learning to snap with codelabs
by Canonical on 28 September 2016
I always felt that learning something new, especially new concepts and workflows usually works best if you see it first-hand and get to do things yourself. If...
Internet of Things
10 Desktop snaps written in August
by Didier Roche on 7 September 2016
More and more snaps are being created monthly! For those that may not know, Snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many...
Internet of Things
Intel® Joule™ board powered by Ubuntu Core
by Amrisha Prashar on 16 August 2016
We’re happy to welcome a new development board in the Ubuntu family! The new Intel® Joule™ is a powerful board targeted at IoT and robotics makers and runs...
Internet of Things
Snapd 2.0.10: new media interfaces, channel switching
by Canonical on 11 July 2016
If it hasn’t already, snapd 2.0.10 should be making its way to your 16.04 systems. Here is what’s new!The 2.0.10 release contains a number of improvements and...
Desktop
Contributing to the world of snaps
by Canonical on 7 July 2016
Zygmunt Krynicki wrote about the availability of bite-sized bugs for the snapd project.I took this as an opportunity to go through the snapcraft bugs as well...
Cloud and server
Snapcraft 2.12: an ecosystem of parts, qmake and gulp
by Canonical on 29 June 2016
Snapcraft 2.12 is here and is making its way to your 16.04 machines today.This release takes Snapcraft to a whole new level. For example, instead of defining...
Cloud and server
HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!
by Dustin Kirkland on 20 June 2016
Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever...
Desktop
HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!
by Dustin Kirkland on 20 June 2016
Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever...
Cloud and server
Leveling up snapd integration tests
by Gustavo Niemeyer on 16 June 2016
Over the last several months there has been noticeable and growing pain associated with the evolving integration tests around snapd, and given the project...
Cloud and server
Running snaps in LXD containers
by Stéphane Graber on 16 February 2016
Introduction The LXD and AppArmor teams have been working to support loading AppArmor policies inside LXD containers for a while. This support which finally...