Blog posts written by Michael C. Jaeger

Michael C. Jaeger
4 September 2023

Efficiency redefined: Discover the power of software operators during Operator Day, co-located at KubeCon North America 2023

Charms Article

The 7th Operator Day is a virtual event and will take place on the first day of the KubeCon week, Monday, 6 November 2023. The event is entirely virtual. You can dial in from anywhere and attend. You can register at the KubeCon NA 2023 conference or directly at the event page. ...

Michael C. Jaeger
22 June 2023

Adopting a low-ops approach with software operators

Charms Article

How enterprise DevOps teams can automate repetitive tasks while staying in control Low-ops means minimising the effort for operating applications by automating as many tasks as possible. However, given the maximum automation, how can an SRE or DevOps engineer stay in control? Doesn’t automating tasks and being in control sound like a par ...

Michael C. Jaeger
9 May 2023

Kubecon EU 2023: Operator Day hosted by Canonical – recordings available

Charms Article

The Operator Day at KubeCon EU 2023, hosted by Canonical, took place on Monday, 17 April 2023. We thank everyone for attending the event. Our thanks go out especially to those who engaged with each other during the sessions, asked questions and contributed to our interactive event. If you missed this 6th edition of Operator ...

Michael C. Jaeger
24 March 2023

The Indico software operator is now available to optimise event management

Charms Article

With Juju, Indico can be easily deployed on private clouds as well as on a public cloud. Juju and Charmed Operators provide for all the elements of Indico, such as the Web server, storage, and databases, a uniform interface for operations and an abstraction from the deployment infrastructure – reducing efforts significantly. ...

Michael C. Jaeger
6 March 2023

Join us at Operator Day, hosted by Canonical at KubeCon Europe 2023

Charms Article

Join us at the 6th edition of Operator Day at KubeCon Europe – Speakers will talk about their software operator journey, from configuration management to application management. ...

Michael C. Jaeger
20 February 2023

Gopaddle – A Low-Code Internal Developer Platform for Canonical’s MicroK8s edge cloud

Kubernetes Article

We are excited to announce the launch of gopaddle, the Low-Code Internal Developer Platform, as a community addon for MicroK8s edge cloud. ...

Michael C. Jaeger
15 December 2022

Repatriation to reduce public cloud spend – easier said than done?

Cloud and server Article

Repatriation in cloud computing refers to moving workloads from the public cloud to on-premise infrastructure. Sarah Wang and Martin Casado from Andreessen Horowitz have written one of the most popular articles about repatriation: they explain the motivation with the significant cost savings possible. For software-based businesses, public ...

Michael C. Jaeger
8 December 2022

Application migration: best practices for success

Cloud and server Article

Large enterprises usually have more than 1,000 systems running. Even smaller organisations may have hundreds of applications in their public cloud spaces or on their servers. In this world of IT systems, application migrations are common for the following reasons: At some point, software reaches its end of life and is not supported anymor ...

Michael C. Jaeger
25 October 2022

Participate in the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Operations Survey 2023

Charms Article

Canonical has conducted surveys about Kubernetes and Cloud Native Operations in the past two years. As a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and an active part of the community, we contribute the anonymised results back, along with our analyses and the insights of industry experts. Everyone can submit an answer anonymou ...

Michael C. Jaeger
16 September 2022

Join us at Operator Day, hosted by Canonical at Kubecon NA 2022

Cloud and server Article

The 5th Operator Day is coming up. It will take place at KubeCon North America 2022. This edition will center on cases where software operators have been applied successfully. Join us to hear about our experience in building software operators using Juju, an open-source operator lifecycle manager. Operators implemented for Juju are called ...

Michael C. Jaeger
5 September 2022

Best practices to publish open-source software operators

Charms Article

Running or operating applications requires several tasks throughout their lifecycle: scaling instances, checking the health, integrating with other applications, running backups, and applying updates – to name a few examples. It’s a time and labour-intensive process. To automate these tasks, developers can implement scripts for repeated e ...

Michael C. Jaeger
30 June 2022

The software operator design pattern: disadvantages – part 5

Charms Article

The software operator is a design pattern – it is a proven design that has been applied in many situations and implemented by several frameworks. Its widespread adoption in the industry has allowed us to study its consequences, both good and bad. This is important because software developers and IT architects need to know when ...