Blog posts tagged
"Containerization"

10 posts

Richard Ferreira
4 September 2024

Meet Canonical at Open Source Summit Europe 2024

Article AI

Join Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, as we attend the upcoming Open Source Summit Europe 2024 in Austria. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, this summit is the premier event for developers, technologists, and community leaders with a keen interest in the innovation that open source enables. Mark your calendars for...

Richard Ferreira
4 September 2024

Tytus Kurek
9 August 2023

What is virtualization? A beginner’s guide

Article Cloud and server

While information technology continues to evolve rapidly, virtualization remains a cornerstone of modern computing, enabling businesses to maximise resource utilisation, enhance flexibility, and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO). It is a key building block of the cloud computing paradigm, and millions of...

Tytus Kurek
9 August 2023

Miona Aleksic
18 January 2023

Containerization vs. Virtualization : understand the differences

Article Cloud and server

Containerization vs. Virtualization : understand the differences and benefits of each approach, as well as connections to cloud computing.

Miona Aleksic
18 January 2023

Kris Sharma
17 January 2022

Canonical Kubernetes for Financial Services

Article Financial Services

To serve today’s on-demand customer, financial institutions must become agile digital enterprises focused on delivering innovative products, services, and customer experiences.  Adopting a container-first approach represents an unrivalled opportunity for financial institutions to increase system efficiency and resource...

Kris Sharma
17 January 2022

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

anastasiavalti
2 March 2021

Canonical completes Azure Arc Validation Program, helps increase user confidence in Arc enabled production Kubernetes

Article Kubernetes

Microsoft Azure has just announced the details of its new Azure Arc Validation Program, aiming to further increase customer confidence in deploying Arc enabled Kubernetes in production workloads, and at scale. Canonical is one of the Kubernetes distribution providers to participate in the program, by completing...

anastasiavalti
2 March 2021

anastasiavalti
9 February 2021

Benefits of containers for enterprises

Article Kubernetes

Within just five years, Kubernetes and containers have redefined how software is deployed. Researchers expect the container market to grow by 30% year over year to become a 5 billion industry by 2022. But what is the reason behind this mass adoption of container technology in the enterprise?  Get the full picture with...

anastasiavalti
9 February 2021

anastasiavalti
21 May 2020

Innovating and scaling efficiently with Kubernetes and MicroK8s

Article Cloud and server

Watch on demand With the benefits of Kubernetes now well established in the containerisation space, its adoption continues to exponentially increase. However, as developers and enterprises alike turn to Kubernetes for more and more types of use cases, available Kubernetes solutions often fail to meet their exact needs....

anastasiavalti
21 May 2020

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...

Alex Cattle
3 February 2020

Alex Cattle
18 July 2019

How to build a lightweight system container cluster

Article Cloud and server

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...

Alex Cattle
18 July 2019