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"kubernetes"

Alex Chalkias
20 April 2022

Try Kubernetes 1.24 release candidate with MicroK8s

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The latest Kubernetes release, 1.24, is about to be made generally available. Today, the community announced the availability of the 1.24 release candidate. Developers, DevOps and other cloud and open source enthusiasts who want to experiment with the latest cutting edge K8s features can already do so easily with MicroK8s. MicroK8s is a C ...

Alex Chalkias
4 April 2022

Zero-ops scaling Kubernetes storage with MicroK8s and OpenEBS Mayastor

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This is a guest post, originally posted on Angelos Kolaitis‘ personal blog, reproduced here with his permission. Angelos is a MicroK8s software engineer at Canonical. How we brought a universal, cluster-wide storage solution to MicroK8s. Why is storage in Kubernetes hard? Kubernetes is well-known as an open-source system for automating de ...

Alex Chalkias
1 March 2022

Enabling simple, cost-effective Kubernetes on IBM Z with MicroK8s

Kubernetes Ubuntu tech blog

Containerisation has transformed the enterprise IT landscape, driving faster, more secure, and more predictable software delivery than ever before. Thanks to technologies like Docker, building containerised applications is easy, and many businesses are working with hundreds or even thousands of containers. To effectively deploy and manage ...

Anton Smith
1 February 2022

Bare metal Kubernetes as a Service: Canonical MAAS and SpectroCloud Webinar

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Developers want Kubernetes infrastructure that is fast, consistent, and without limits! Platform engineering, IT, and DevOps teams are adopting Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS) now more than ever before to streamline efficiency for dev teams and operations. But what happens when the requirement involves deploying clusters directly on top of ...

Anton Smith
27 January 2022

Understanding bare metal Kubernetes

Kubernetes Ubuntu tech blog

Bare metal Kubernetes is a powerful set of technologies that builds on the best ideas behind the public and private cloud, yet abstracts away some toilsome aspects related to virtualisation management and networking. For operators and users, it provides significant benefits, making it easier and faster to ship and maintain complex, distri ...

Kris Sharma
17 January 2022

Canonical Kubernetes for Financial Services

Financial Services Ubuntu tech blog

To serve today’s on-demand customer, financial institutions must become agile digital enterprises focused on delivering innovative products, services, and customer experiences.  Adopting a container-first approach represents an unrivalled opportunity for financial institutions to increase system efficiency and resource utilisation, improv ...

Kris Sharma
10 January 2022

Kubernetes for Finservs – Unlocking success in digital transformations

Financial Services Ubuntu tech blog

The global health crisis has accelerated the digital transformation within the financial services industry. A McKinsey report highlights that “In a competitive environment of rising cost pressures, where rapid action and response is imperative, financial institutions must modernise their technology function to support expanded digitisatio ...

Michael C. Jaeger
6 January 2022

Application composability and the shipping container

Charms Ubuntu tech blog

The previous blog post talked about the composability of applications. The key element for composing applications is defining the relations between application elements. And supporting relations is one of the advantages of the Charmed Operator Framework – including its runtime, the Charmed Operator Lifecycle Manager. The shipping containe ...

Michael C. Jaeger
5 January 2022

Application composability – a cloud computing perspective

Charms Ubuntu tech blog

Let’s remember the time in the 2000s when companies introduced their cloud computing offerings at a large scale. New services were put into the popular IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS categories. New kinds of storage and messaging technologies were promoted. Also, novel approaches were discussed, such as designing applications for horizontal scalabi ...

Michael C. Jaeger
4 January 2022

Deploy and maintain applications with Charmed Operators

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Recently, I remembered a situation when I was in elementary school and visited a friend at his house. At some point, his mother wanted us to go to a neighbour and ask to borrow some eggs. We went a few houses down, opened the garden gate, entered through the door to the house, and arrived ...

Alex Chalkias
28 December 2021

Kubernetes infographic: usage of cloud native technology in 2021

Kubernetes Ubuntu tech blog

2021 has been an interesting year for the Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystem.  Due to the pandemic, cloud adoption saw a big spike in adoption. As the year wraps up soon, we wanted to reflect on the top findings from the Kubernetes and cloud native operations report and we have a cool infographic for you. ...

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