Blog posts written by Tytus Kurek

Tytus Kurek
11 December 2019

Juju 2.7: Enhanced k8s experience, improved networking and more

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of Juju 2.7. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Juju across various areas. To learn more about Juju, visit our page. Kubernetes extensions Juju is becoming the simplest way to deploy and manage your container-centric workloads. Thi ...

Tytus Kurek
3 December 2019

What is Kata Containers and why should I care?

Cloud and server Article

Kata Containers can significantly improve the security and isolation of your container workloads. It combines the benefits of using a hypervisor, such as enhanced security, and container orchestration capabilities provided by Kubernetes. Together with Eric Erns from Intel, we have recently performed a webinar in which we presented the ben ...

Tytus Kurek
22 November 2019

8th OSM Hackfest: the highlights

Telecommunications Article

The 8th OSM Hackfest is over, but the OSM (Open Source MANO) project continues to evolve and is now looking forward to landing release SEVEN. It was an exciting week in Lucca, Italy. We’ve seen a lot of interest from those who attended the event for the first time and a strong commitment from the ...

Tytus Kurek
11 November 2019

Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai 2019: the highlights

Cloud and server Article

The Canonical team is getting back from the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai 2019 with a lot of excitement and a fresh view on the key projects from the OpenStack Foundation including OpenStack and Kata containers. Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai: Keynotes OpenStack remains a big thing and its adoption is constantly growing. Accord ...

Tytus Kurek
29 October 2019

OpenStack Charms 19.10 – Train, Policy Overrides and more

Charms Article

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 19.10. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. To learn more about Charmed OpenStack, visit our page. OpenStack Train This release introduces support for OpenStack Train on Ubu ...

Tytus Kurek
16 October 2019

Ansible vs Terraform vs Juju: Competition or cooperation?

DevOps Article

Ansible vs Terraform vs Juju vs Chef vs SaltStack vs Puppet vs CloudFormation – there are so many tools available out there. What are these tools? Do I need all of them? Are they competing with each other or cooperating? The answer is not really straightforward. It usually depends on your needs and the particular ...

Tytus Kurek
1 October 2019

5G Core implementation: Challenges in the field

Telecommunications Article

With an emerging demand for higher speeds, lower latency, and increasing connection density, telecommunications providers have started implementing 5G. While the initial roll-out usually takes months, the entire process is going to take years. This is because designing and implementing 5G entails a number of challenges. These include dep ...

Tytus Kurek
14 August 2019

OpenStack Charms 19.07 – Percona Cluster Cold Start, DVR SNAT and more

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 19.07. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. Let’s talk about a few notable ones. Percona cluster cold start The percona-cluster charm now contains a new logic and actions to ...

Tytus Kurek
6 August 2019

Declarative vs Imperative: DevOps done right

Cloud and server Article

Deciding whether to automate workloads, while designing your ICT infrastructure, is trivial. It’s 2019 and automation is everywhere around. However, deciding which DevOps paradigm to choose and which tool to use, may not be that obvious. In order to assist you with the ‘declarative vs imperative’ decision-making process, this blog briefly ...