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jdkandersson
13 March 2025

Effortless observability for Django applications

Article Ubuntu

Observability is critical for web operations to ensure that the application is working as expected and to identify any potential issues. However, setting up observability has traditionally been challenging because it can take hours to set up all the infrastructure, instrument your code and enable observability in...

jdkandersson
13 March 2025

Michael C. Jaeger
29 April 2024

Kubernetes backups just got easier with the CloudCasa charm from Catalogic

Article Charms

For a native integration for Canonical’s Kubernetes platform, Juju was the perfect fit, and the charm makes consuming CloudCasa seamless for users.

Michael C. Jaeger
29 April 2024

Michael C. Jaeger
23 February 2024

What is a Kubernetes operator?

Article Charms

Kubernetes is the open source, industry-standard platform for deploying, managing and scaling containerized applications – and applications on Kubernetes are easier with operators.

Michael C. Jaeger
23 February 2024

Michael C. Jaeger
6 February 2024

Operate popular open source on Kubernetes – Attend Operator Day at KubeCon EU 2024

Article Charms

Operate popular open source on Kubernetes – Attend Operator Day at KubeCon EU 2024

Michael C. Jaeger
6 February 2024

Michael C. Jaeger
9 January 2024

Understanding roles in software operators

Article Charms

In today’s blog we take a closer look at roles – the key elements that make up the design pattern – and how they work together to simplify maintaining application infrastructure.

Michael C. Jaeger
9 January 2024

Michael C. Jaeger
21 December 2023

Missed Operator Day at KubeCon NA 2023? – Catch the Replay!

Article Charms

If you missed Operator Day, we have good news: starting January 4th, we will present weekly on-demand events week covering the presentations step by step.

Michael C. Jaeger
21 December 2023

Michael C. Jaeger
4 September 2023

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

Article Charms

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
4 September 2023

Michael C. Jaeger
22 June 2023

Adopting a low-ops approach with software operators

Article Charms

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...

Michael C. Jaeger
22 June 2023

Michael C. Jaeger
6 January 2022

Application composability and the shipping container

Article Charms

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....

Michael C. Jaeger
6 January 2022

Michael C. Jaeger
5 January 2022

Application composability – a cloud computing perspective

Article Charms

Let’s remember the time in the 2000s when companies introduced their cloud computing offerings at a large scale. New services were put into the popular IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS categories. New kinds of storage and messaging technologies were promoted. Also, novel approaches were discussed, such as designing applications for...

Michael C. Jaeger
5 January 2022

Michael C. Jaeger
4 January 2022

Deploy and maintain applications with Charmed Operators

Article Ubuntu

Recently, I remembered a situation when I was in elementary school and visited a friend at his house. At some point, his mother wanted us to go to a neighbour and ask to borrow some eggs. We went a few houses down, opened the garden gate, entered through the door to the house, and arrived

Michael C. Jaeger
4 January 2022

Canonical
23 September 2021

Portainer and Canonical Expand Partnership Launching Business Charm for Charmed Kubernetes

Kubernetes Canonical announcements

Auckland, New Zealand – Portainer announced the launch of its Portainer Business Charmed Operator, allowing for seamless integration with Canonical’s Charmed Kubernetes distribution. The new Portainer charm allows users of Canonical’s Charmed Kubernetes distribution to automatically install and integrate Portainer...

Canonical
23 September 2021

Tytus Kurek
2 September 2021

Where configuration management falls short: model-driven OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Have you ever installed OpenStack from scratch? I know, it sounds geeky, unnecessary and maybe even overcomplicated … It is after all 2021, OpenStack is mature, there are hundreds of OpenStack distributions available out there, configuration management tools are all the way around and installing OpenStack from scratch...

Tytus Kurek
2 September 2021

Tytus Kurek
4 May 2021

OpenStack Wallaby: OpenStack Charms 21.04

Article Cloud and server

OpenStack Charms 21.04 release brings native support for OpenStack Wallaby and Ceph Pacific in Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack. Those latest versions of OpenStack and Ceph come with numerous performance improvements, making the open infrastructure stack even more suitable for network and storage intensive workloads. In...

Tytus Kurek
4 May 2021

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