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Blog posts tagged
"Snaps"

Canonical
7 September 2017

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 2

Internet of Things Article

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services (Part 1) Tracks With tracks, developers can give a group of users the ability to stay on a robust, proven version of their software, even when a newer stable version has been released. Using a track can be useful if the newer stable version has some ...

Canonical
4 September 2017

Controlling snap releases with channels, tracks and branches – Part 1

Internet of Things Article

By Daniel Manrique, Engineering Manager at Canonical, Online Services Ever since snaps were introduced, a crucial part of their feature set has been the ability to release a snap on a particular “channel” indicating how stable or production-ready it is. The well-known channel names stable, candidate, beta and edge indicate a snap’s stabil ...

Thibaut Rouffineau
10 August 2017

Fresh Snaps from July 2017

Cloud and server Article

If you’re thinking July = holidays… think again! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about productivity. Graphic design tools, web code editor, Go IDE, JSON configuration, blockchain wallet and Openstack… Ready for an active summer? If the term “snaps” doesn’t ring a bell, they are a new way for developers to package ...

Richard Harding
20 July 2017

Testing the future of Juju with snaps

Cloud and server Article

Juju 2.3 is under heavy development and one thing we all want when we’re working on the next big release of our software product is to get feedback from users. Are you solving the problems your user has? Are there bugs in the corner cases that a user c ...

luciadecastro
18 July 2017

Hiri, the desktop snap that lets you use Microsoft Exchange on Linux

Desktop Article

Earlier this month Hiri launched a snap, making their application very easy to be used by Linux users. We talked to Dave Power, co-founder of Hiri, to understand how this journey was and the value of snaps for his business. Install from Ubuntu Store Can you tell us what is Hiri about? Hiri is a ...

David Callé
12 July 2017

Fresh Snaps from June 2017

Desktop Article

From fast and secure file sharing to Kubernetes charts management, from email clients to classic text editors for your Pi, our selection of top snaps for June has something for everyone. If the term “snaps” doesn’t ring a bell, they are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing many advantages over traditional ...

Kyle Fazzari
11 July 2017

Ubuntu Core: Making a factory image with private snaps

Internet of Things Article

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?” This question is of course not robotics-specific, and neither is its answer. In this post we’ll ...

elopio
5 July 2017

User acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis CI

Desktop Article

Travis CI offers a great continuous integrationservice for the projects hosted in GitHub. With it you can run tests, deliverartifacts and deploy services on pull requests, when they are merged, or withsome other frecuency.Last week theyupdated the ...

Guest
28 June 2017

Build, test, and publish snap packages using snapcraft

Desktop Article

This is a guest post by Ricardo Feliciano, Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected]. Snapcraft, the package management system fighting for its spot at the Linux table, re-imagines how you can deliver your software. A new set of cross-distro tools are available ...

Thibaut Rouffineau
19 June 2017

Distributing KeePassXC as a snap

Desktop Article

This is a guest post by Jonathan White (find him on Github) one of the developers behind keepassxc. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] . Can you tell us about KeePassXC? KeePassXC, for KeePass Cross-Platform Community Edition, is an extension of the KeePassX password manager project that ...

David Callé
15 June 2017

Gitter and Mattermost: two desktop apps for your future chat platform

Desktop Article

In the hunt for the perfect communication platform or protocol, a lot of companies are experimenting, which can lead to some confusion as not everyone is moving at the same pace: one team on IRC, another one on Slack, one on “anything but Slack, have you tried Mattermost? It’s almost like RocketChat”. Then, if a ...

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