Accelerate your Qt Development with Ubuntu Core and Snaps
summary
Proposes replacing monolithic Linux images with transactional snaps on Ubuntu Core and the snapd ecosystem: snaps ship as read-only squashfs with a private writable area, strict confinement and interfaces, atomic updates with rollback, and builds via snapcraft + multipass and CI. Claims support for 41 distributions and six architectures, a KDE example of 100 snaps and kcalc 100MB→1MB via content snaps, store channels (edge/candidate/beta/stable) and an enterprise snap proxy.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 1:05IoT growth and current challenges
- 3:54Problems with monolithic Linux images
- 6:23Introducing snaps and their benefits
- 8:52Ubuntu Core for IoT deployments
- 10:18Transactional updates and rollbacks
- 11:23Automation and CI integration
- 13:56Qt development with snaps
- 16:54Summary and benefits of snaps
- 18:22Q&A session
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