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Operator Day at Kubecon EU 2022 – recordings available!

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 missed Operator

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

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 second part, we also ex

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

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.

What is a Cloud-Based Smartphone?

A couple of months ago, at MWC 22 in Barcelona, Canonical had announced its partnership with Vodafone to test a new technology that uses Anbox Cloud and the power of smart mobile networks. Today, we’re excited to see that Mobile magazine is talking about the Cloud-Based Smartphone concept in an eight-page article “Will 5G Give

Ubuntu supports Arm64-based Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Canonical announces an optimized Ubuntu image for the preview of Ampere Altra Arm-based Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. Azure users will benefit from running Ubuntu, the most popular cloud operating system, on a secure, scalable, and highly cost-effective cloud infrastructure. Arm-based architectures are ideal for computing workloads in

The software operator design pattern — part 2

This blog post continues with the previous blog post about design patterns and the software operator pattern. In this part, this post takes a closer look at the description of the software operator pattern. What is a design pattern? Over the years, the software development and programming community developed a common understanding of desi

Design patterns and the software operator — part 1

In the early days of software development, computers were sold with compilers and interpreters. Users wrote mostly their own small programs instead of buying software. During that time, most didn’t even consider downloading software as only a few were connected to mailboxes or the UUCP network. Most of the software was provided by the com

Operator Day hosted by Canonical at Kubecon EU 2022

May 16th 2022, virtual eventWeek of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2022 What is Operator Day? Software operators are crucial elements in the Kubernetes landscape. They implement operational tasks covering everyday application management. They help human operators, administrators to run their applications efficiently and effectively. On Opera

Getting started with Juju and Charmed Operators: three awesome videos

Getting started with software can be confusing – depending on the complexity of the software, of course. Despite the extensive documentation available for Charmed Operator SDK and Juju some just prefer to watch video material to start with. So, let’s take the opportunity to have a look at available tutorials and presentations available on

Pacific Textiles drives digital transformation with new infrastructure for legacy and cloud-native applications

March 1st, 2022 — Canonical announces that Pacific Textiles chose Canonical Charmed OpenStack for its infrastructure upgrade. The new private cloud environment allows keeping the legacy workloads running continuously and launching new cloud-native services simultaneously. The professional services team from Canonical helped Pacific Textil

Telco workloads orchestration in multi-clouds environments – focus for Open Source MANO release ELEVEN

Open source MANO release ELEVEN is here with another set of exciting features for the telco world!! Promising the production-grade orchestration of telco workloads, OSM release ELEVEN focuses on the trends of cloud-native deployments in multi-cloud environments. To overcome the challenges that we have discussed in previous blogs, OSM this

Kubernetes for Finservs – Unlocking success in digital transformations

The global health crisis has accelerated the digital transformation within the financial services industry. A McKinsey report highlights that “In a competitive environment of rising cost pressures, where rapid action and response is imperative, financial institutions must modernise their technology function to support expanded digitisatio

Application composability – a cloud computing perspective

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 horizontal scalabi

Deploy and maintain applications with Charmed Operators

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

Kubernetes infographic: usage of cloud native technology in 2021

2021 has been an interesting year for the Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystem.  Due to the pandemic, cloud adoption saw a big spike in adoption. As the year wraps up soon, we wanted to reflect on the top findings from the Kubernetes and cloud native operations report and we have a cool infographic for you.

Operator Day returns for KubeCon NA 2021

Register for free What is Operator Day? Operators simplify everyday application management on Kubernetes. Learn how to use them, how to create them in Python, and how to evolve from configuration management to application management. We’re working to create a community-driven collection of operators for everything that’s integrated and te