Posts on kyrofa's blog

“Can I safely use this new release?”

Reviewing pull requests for snaps has been pretty terrible ever since snaps were introduced.

The Nextcloud snap updates automatically.

If you’re an avid reader of the blog (and come on, who isn’t?)

When I first started learning Rails back in the day, it was my first introduction to Ruby: I was learning them both at the same time.

I remember the first mobile phone I ever saw.

I am a staff engineer at Canonical, where I have worked for six years.

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

I’m a few weeks late on celebrating Nextcloud’s four year anniversary, but I’m doing it anyway!

We got an interesting question from a customer today, and I think the answer might be helpful to a wider audience.

We at Canonical have been hard at work on the security features of version 2 of the Robot Operating System (ROS 2).

We at Canonical care deeply about robotics.

I’ve had a very particular itch for a long time, now.

A while back I wrote a post about distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps.

Security is a always a balancing act between safety and practicality.

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.

The snapcraft CLI has supported building ROS1 snaps for a while via the catkin plugin.

Ubuntu is a very popular operating system for robotics, for a number of reasons.

Snaps bundle their dependencies, which take time to fetch and unpack, and they’re typically made up of multiple parts, each of which need to be built and installed into the snap.

Part of the snapcraft CLI’s development roadmap this cycle includes the ability to build snaps on distros other than Ubuntu.

UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics.

UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics.

UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics.

UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics.

UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics.

Tomorrow, it begins.

If you’re a user of the Nextcloud snap, you may have noticed that upstream Nextcloud released v12 a while back, but you’re still on v11.

Were you busy today?

You’ve heard it a million times: snaps bundle their dependencies.

When it comes to developing snaps, there’s a particular confusion out there that I see over and over again: build-time versus run-time.

My first foray into software development when I was a kid was as a web developer.

This is a follow-up to the ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core series to answer a question I received: “What if I want to make an image for the factory, but don’t want to make my snaps public?”

As of this writing there are two major versions of Snapcraft: v1 and v2.

So you’re developing a complex application.

We’re getting ready to release a new version of the Nextcloud snap. v11.0.3snap3-rc1 is now in the candidate channel: $ sudo snap install --candidate nextcloud This update includes: An update to MySQL v5.7.18 An update to certbot v0.14.1 We’d love this n…

I’m an engineer, and am pretty clueless when it comes to film-making.

The Darktable snap (darktable-kyrofa) is terribly out-of-date.

We’re getting ready to release a new version of the Nextcloud snap with a few new features, including: Supporting changing ports from the default 80/443.

UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics.

UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics.

UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics.

UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics.

UPDATE: I’m leaving this series up for historical purposes, but please note that I no longer recommend Ubuntu Core or snaps for use in robotics.

One of the key tenets of snaps is that they bundle their dependencies.

Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf.

When researching snaps, one of the main advantages everyone talks about is the fact that they’re transactionally updated.

If you read the official Ubuntu Core docs, you’ll see that the recommended way to run Ubuntu Core virtually is with KVM.

In the previous post of this series, we discussed the process of and lessons learned from building Redis for the Nextcloud snap.

In the previous post of this series, we discussed the process of and lessons learned from building MySQL for the Nextcloud snap.

In the previous post of this series, we discussed the process of and lessons learned from building PHP 7 for the Nextcloud snap.