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Konstantinos Tsakalozos

Konstantinos Tsakalozos

6 posts

Software Developer - Big Data

Konstantinos is currently employed by Canonical Ltd on the Big Data group of Juju. Prior to that he worked on Big Data for Microsoft. In 2012 he got his Ph.D. from the Department of Informatics at the University of Athens.

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 ...

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
1 November 2017

Heptio Contour on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

I read the Hacker News post Heptio Contour and I thought “Cool! A project from our friends at Heptio, lets see what they got for us”. I wont lie to you, at first I was a bit disappointed because there was no special mention for Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) but I understand, I am asking too much :). Let me cover this gap here ...

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
19 October 2017

From Bare Metal to Cloud with MAAS

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Konstantinos Tsakalozos’ blog When was the last time you had one of those “I wish I knew about that <time period> ago” moments? One of mine was when I saw MAAS (Metal as a Service). Back at the University, as a member of the MADgIK lab, I had to administer ...

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
28 September 2017

Patch CDK #2: Multi arch support — s390x

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Konstantinos’ blog In our last post we discussed the steps required to build the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK). That post should give you a good picture of the components coming together to form a release. Some of these components are architecture agnostic, some not. Here we will update CDK ...

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
27 September 2017

Patch CDK #1: Build & Release

Cloud and server Article

This article originally appeared on Konstantin’s blog Happens all the time. You often come across a super cool open source project you would gladly contribute but setting up the development environment and learning to patch and release your fixes puts you off. The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) is not an exception. This set of ...

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
15 June 2016

Juju Made the Deadline

Cloud and server Article

Ok… I am exaggerating. Juju did not make the deadline, Panagiotis and his co-authors with their hard work made the deadline. Ah, ok you caught me lying again… One of Panagiotis co-authors (me) did not work hard, actually he did not work on the paper at all! Normally, I would publicly apologize, but let me ...