Blog posts tagged
“Juju”

351 posts


Michael C. Jaeger
24 March 2023

The Indico software operator is now available to optimise event management

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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
24 March 2023


Michael C. Jaeger
6 March 2023

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

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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
6 March 2023


Michael C. Jaeger
15 December 2022

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

Article Cloud and server

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...

Michael C. Jaeger
15 December 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
8 December 2022

Application migration: best practices for success

Article Cloud and server

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...

Michael C. Jaeger
8 December 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
25 October 2022

Participate in the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Operations Survey 2023

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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...

Michael C. Jaeger
25 October 2022


Shunde Zhang
21 October 2022

Integrating Charmed Kubernetes with AWS via OIDC

Article Cloud and server

Canonical’s Charmed Kubernetes is a suite of open-source Kubernetes software bundled with many addons, including CNIs, CSIs, monitoring tools and cloud integrations. As Juju supports AWS, Charmed Kubernetes can be deployed and run on AWS seamlessly. In fact, many of our customers run their Charmed Kubernetes on AWS for...

Shunde Zhang
21 October 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
16 September 2022

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

Article Cloud and server

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...

Michael C. Jaeger
16 September 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
5 September 2022

Best practices to publish open-source software operators

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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...

Michael C. Jaeger
5 September 2022


robgibbon
31 August 2022

Kubernetes operators – the top 5 things to watch for

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Software operators are steadily revolutionising how we deploy and run complex distributed systems. They offer the promise of low-intervention, self-driving software – ideally leading to service reliability gains and better uptime. For an introduction to Kubernetes operators, check out our introductory webinar or...

robgibbon
31 August 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
30 June 2022

The software operator design pattern: disadvantages – part 5

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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

Michael C. Jaeger
30 June 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
29 June 2022

The software operator design pattern: advantages – part 4

Article Cloud and server

The software operator is a design pattern. Its design is based on successful applications where this approach was found useful. In other words, it’s a proven approach that can be recommended to others. But like all approaches, it’s important to understand their positive and negative impact. Software developers need to...

Michael C. Jaeger
29 June 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
16 June 2022

Operator Day at Kubecon EU 2022 – recordings available!

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The Operator Day at Kubecon EU 2022, hosted by Canonical, took place on Monday 16 May  2022. We thank everyone for attending the event. Our thanks go out especially to those who engaged with us via chat during the online event. We enjoyed answering questions and having conversations during the presentations.  If you...

Michael C. Jaeger
16 June 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
12 June 2022

The software operator design pattern: May the force be with you – Part 3

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The software operator is a design pattern. A design pattern describes the approach to cover the operational tasks of an application’s implementation. The first post in this series introduced the concept of a design pattern in general. The second post covers the software operator design pattern in particular. In the...

Michael C. Jaeger
12 June 2022


Michael C. Jaeger
19 May 2022

Secure Multi-Tenancy for Charmed Kubernetes with Clastix’ new Charmed Operator

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Capsule helps reduce the operational effort to operate and maintain secure multi-tenancy on Charmed Kubernetes. Users, teams, and departments can now share the same infrastructure without compromising security and usability.

Michael C. Jaeger
19 May 2022