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 cover two ways to do this. Before we start, you’ll need a little bit of an Ubuntu Core imaging background....
So you’re developing a complex application. Maybe it has some really specific dependencies, or requires a lot of setup. In many cases (such as my own), it’s a web application. I have a suite of tests, varying all the way from unit tests through integration tests. The latter typically uses Selenium, and I often integrate it with Sauce Labs. I’ve written an article about this before. However, even those integration tests aren’t testing the real application: it’s not running against a production database, it’s not running with a production web server, and so on....
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 new version (particularly features that involve those updates) to get some exercise before we release it. Feel like helping? We’ve put together some smoke tests to get you started....
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. Supporting Samba shares. We’d love this new version (particularly these new features) to get some exercise before we release it. Feel like helping? We’ve put together some smoke tests to get you started. Please test all you can, but if you only have time to focus on the smoke tests covering the new features, that would still be very useful....
In the previous post of this series, we discussed the process of and lessons learned from building Redis for the Nextcloud snap. That means we’ve covered all the major pieces except for Nextcloud itself, so for this post that’s what we’ll focus on getting that into the snap. As I mentioned previously, Nextcloud is a PHP application. As such, it’s not difficult to get working with Apache or MySQL. However, it was written in such a way to make its deployment as easy as possible (e....