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Blog posts tagged
"containers"


Tim McNamara
11 February 2020

DevOps tools in 2020: Why consider Juju?

Charms Article

Many DevOps tools struggle as deployments change. Juju excels. 2020 heralds a decade for a divided technology industry. Software delivery is diversifying. Complexity is increasing. Teams are looking to make use of new approaches such as serverless and split large applications into microservices. They also need to retain their existing app ...


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 ...


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 ...


Canonical
11 November 2019

Canonical at TechWeek Frankfurt

Cloud and server Article

Date: Nov 13-14Location: Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GermanyBooth: 957 The TechWeek Frankfurt trade show will explore solutions to technology challenges organisations face across cloud computing and security, DevOps practices, Big Data management and more. With these major infrastructure themes in mind, the Ubuntu and Canonical team is ho ...


Peter Jose De Sousa
8 October 2019

Container registry for Kubernetes with GitLab

Cloud and server Article

Container orchestration solutions such as Kubernetes allow development teams to be quick and agile with their software deployments. “One of the main features of Kubernetes is the ability to reduce the deployment of version piece of software down to a simple image tag which can be applied at the end of a command.” – said ...


Alex Cattle
18 July 2019

How to build a lightweight system container cluster

Cloud and server Article

LXD, the system container manager, developed by Canonical and shipped by default with Ubuntu, makes it possible to create many containers of various Linux distributions and manage them in a way similar to virtual machines (VMs) but with lower overhead costs associated with them. Unlike VMs, containers have the benefit of using a shared ke ...


wgs1
20 June 2019

Kubernetes on Mac: how to set up

Cloud and server Article

UPDATED in July 2020 with the latest instruction set. Are you looking for a Kubernetes solution to run on your Mac? MicroK8s is a lightweight, pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes developed by Canonical. It’s a compact Linux snap that installs a single-node Kubernetes cluster alongside carefully selected add-ons on Linux, Windows and ...


wgs1
19 June 2019

Kubernetes on Windows: how to set up

Cloud and server Article

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:Password: The post Protected: Kubernetes on Windows appeared first on Ubuntu Blog. ...


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
11 February 2019

Understanding containerised workloads for Telco

Cloud and server Webinar

For telecommunications companies evaluating ways to transition and modernise their network infrastructure, cloud-native, container-based microservices architectures are a powerful solution in meeting requirements of compute needs through edge cloud and beyond. Understanding infrastructure implications and design considerations for open so ...


Michael Iatrou
5 December 2018

Minimum viable Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

The appeal of Kubernetes is universal. Application development, operations and infrastructure teams recognise diverse reasons for its immediate utility and growing potential — a testament of Kubernetes’ empathetic design. Web apps, galvanised by the 12 factor pattern as well as microservice-structured applications find a native habitat in ...