Tag: Getting Started
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My Linux App Summit (LAS) presentation
The linux app summit is a global event to learn, collaborate, and talk about the Linux application ecosystem. I was lucky enough to have my presentation accepted onto the LAS 2021 slate. I knew going in that I would be one of the least savvy people in the room. But being new and not being…
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What is virtualisation? The basics
Virtualisation plays a huge role in almost all of today’s fastest-growing software-based industries. It is the foundation for most cloud computing, the go-to methodology for cross-platform development, and has made its way all the way to ‘the edge’; the eponymous IoT. This article is the first in a series where we explain what virtualisation is…
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Building a Raspberry Pi cluster with MicroK8s
The tutorial for building a Raspberry Pi cluster with MicroK8s is here. This blog is not a tutorial. This blog aims to answer; why? Why would you build a Raspberry Pi cluster with MicroK8s? Here we go a little deeper to understand the hype around Kubernetes, the uses of cluster computing and the capabilities of…
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How I made my first snap
Snaps are a way for you to package your software so it is easy to install on Linux. I figured, as a new member of the advocacy team at Canonical, I better start snappin’. I learnt how to do this using the snapcraft documentation, and a couple of blog posts by Alan Pope (popey). If…
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