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Blog posts tagged
"container orchestration"


Michael C. Jaeger
6 January 2022

Application composability and the shipping container

Charms Article

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 ...


anastasiavalti
2 March 2021

Canonical completes Azure Arc Validation Program, helps increase user confidence in Arc enabled production Kubernetes

Kubernetes Article

Microsoft Azure has just announced the details of its new Azure Arc Validation Program, aiming to further increase customer confidence in deploying Arc enabled Kubernetes in production workloads, and at scale. Canonical is one of the Kubernetes distribution providers to participate in the program, by completing conformance tests for one o ...


anastasiavalti
9 February 2021

Benefits of containers for enterprises

Kubernetes Article

Within just five years, Kubernetes and containers have redefined how software is deployed. Researchers expect the container market to grow by 30% year over year to become a 5 billion industry by 2022. But what is the reason behind this mass adoption of container technology in the enterprise?  Get the full picture with our CTO’s ...


anastasiavalti
5 February 2021

Portainer recommends MicroK8s for effortless deployment

Kubernetes Article

Learn how MicroK8s enables for the fastest and easiest deployment of container management tool Portainer. ...


anastasiavalti
28 July 2020

Canonical at KubeCon Europe Virtual 2020

Kubernetes Events

Book a meeting Date: August 17-20Location: Everywhere – this year’s KubeCon is virtual! Booth: Canonical This year has been an adventurous one to say the least… but that should get in the way of the community getting together, exchanging ideas, and keeping up with what’s new in the sphere of Kubernetes. In fact, it’s all ...


Alex Cattle
3 February 2020

A decision maker’s guide to Kubernetes deployment

Kubernetes Kubernetes

The container landscape is based on constantly evolving technology, with Kubernetes dominating the ecosystem for automating and managing containerised applications. While a very powerful software, it’s also complex. How do you compare Kubernetes to other options, get started with containers, and maintain over the long-term? In this webina ...


Alex Cattle
27 January 2020

An intro to MicroK8s

DevOps Article

MicroK8s is the smallest, fastest multi-node Kubernetes. Single-package fully conformant lightweight Kubernetes that works on 42 flavours of Linux as well as Mac and Windows using Multipass. Perfect for: Developer workstations, IoT, Edge, CI/CD. Anyone who’s tried to work with Kubernetes knows the pain of having to deal with getting setup ...


Konstantinos Tsakalozos
28 March 2019

MicroK8s in the Wild

Cloud and server Article

Canonical released MicroK8s in December 2018, and as its popularity has grown, some interesting projects using this micro Kubernetes distribution have surfaced. To begin with a little background, Kubernetes is an open source container orchestrator that assists with deploying, upgrading and provisioning applications. Kubernetes is unique i ...


Canonical
25 March 2019

Kubernetes 1.14 now available from Canonical

Canonical announcements Article

March 25, 2019 Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.14 using kubeadm deployments, its Charmed Kubernetes, and MicroK8s, its popular single-node deployment of Kubernetes. MicroK8s provides Kubernetes 1.14 on any Linux desktop, server or VM – over 40 Linux distros. Mac and Windows are supported too, with multipass. E ...


Michael Iatrou
3 May 2018

LXD Clusters: A Primer

Cloud and server Article

Since its inception, LXD has been striving to offer a fresh and intuitive user experience for machine containers. LXD instances can be managed over the network through a REST API and a single command line tool. For large scale LXD deployments, OpenStack has been the standard approach: using Nova LXD, lightweight containers replace traditi ...


Canonical
2 December 2017

Introduction to Cloud Native Platform

Cloud and server Webinar

The Cloud Native Platform is a offered in partnership between Canonical and Rancher Labs. The Cloud Native Platform is a turn-key application delivery platform, built on Ubuntu, Kubernetes, and Rancher. This presentation covers: * An introduction to Kubernetes for the enterprise as offered by Canonical * An introduction to Rancher * Demos ...


Canonical
20 July 2017

Webinar: Speed up your software development lifecycle using Kubernetes

Cloud and server Webinar

Live webinar 2nd August, 4pm UTC | Your timezone For a complete cloud native application lifecycle Kubernetes needs some tools to “close the loop”. The promise of the new way of doing things, is that you’ll speed up your software delivery with microservices and devops teams. But how should you really do that? Join this ...