Blog posts tagged
"Juju"

351 posts


Kevin W Monroe
16 January 2018

Monitor your Kubernetes Cluster

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Kevin Monroe’s blog Keeping an eye on logs and metrics is a necessary evil for cluster admins. The benefits are clear: metrics help you set reasonable performance goals, while log analysis can uncover issues that impact your workloads. The hard part, however, is getting a slew of...

Kevin W Monroe
16 January 2018


Paul Gear
24 November 2017

Making NTP best practices easy with Juju charms

Article Cloud and server

NTP: a behind-the-scenes protocol Network Time Protocol is one of those oft-ignored-but-nonetheless-essential subsystems which is largely unknown, except to a select few. Those who know it well generally fall into the following categories: time geeks who work on protocol standardisation and implementation, enthusiasts...

Paul Gear
24 November 2017


Canonical
18 October 2017

MAAS KVM Pods

Article Cloud and server

This is a guest post by Michael Iatrou, cloud solutions architect at Canonical OpenStack is the dominant solution in the IaaS space, fueled by the need for reliable, scalable and interoperable private cloud infrastructure to accommodate cloud native applications. Through OpenStack’s open APIs, tenants can easily deploy...

Canonical
18 October 2017


Michael Iatrou
12 October 2017

Kubernetes the not so easy way

Article Cloud and server

A few years ago, the simplest method to deploy and operate Kubernetes on Ubuntu was with conjure-up. Whether the substrate is a public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) private virtualized environments (VMware) or bare metal, conjure-up will allow you to quickly install a fully functional, production-grade Kubernetes. But...

Michael Iatrou
12 October 2017


Richard Harding
13 September 2017

Modeling infrastructure with security and flexibility in mind

Article Cloud and server

Juju allows the user to model their infrastructure in a clean and simple repeatable way. Often deployments are repeated across different clouds and regions. Sometimes it’s repeated from dev to staging to production. Regardless of the way it’s repeated,

Richard Harding
13 September 2017


Canonical
23 August 2017

Canonical expands enterprise Kubernetes

News Canonical announcements

Canonical supports enterprise Kubernetes on cloud and on-premises Two turnkey consulting packages for rapid deployment Support for Galactic Fog serverless, Rancher container management and Weave Cloud Reference architectures for Kubernetes operations on cloud or bare-metal LONDON, U.K, Aug 23rd, 2017, Canonical today...

Canonical
23 August 2017


jeffpihach
7 August 2017

JAAS & Juju update: Juju GUI 2.8.0

Article Cloud and server

JAAS has seen 2 minor and 6 patch updates in the last nine weeks. Let’s talk about what’s new as of the 2.8.0 release. Direct Deploy Direct Deploy gets your solutions deployed easier and faster. The feature allows you to create Juju cards which will add the specified bundle or charm to a new model

jeffpihach
7 August 2017


Mark Baker
18 July 2017

How modelling helps you avoid getting a stuck OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Lego model of an Airbus A380-800. Airbus run OpenStack A “StuckStack” is a deployment of OpenStack that usually, for technical but sometimes business reasons, is unable to be upgraded without significant disruption, time and expense. In the last post on this topic we discussed how many of these clouds became stuck and...

Mark Baker
18 July 2017


Adam Stokes
26 June 2017

Conjure-up dev summary: Week 25

Article Cloud and server

With conjure-up 2.2.2 out the door we bring a whole host of improvements!sudo snap install conjure-up --classic Improved LocalhostWe recently switched over to using a bundled LXD and with that change came a few hiccups in deployments. We’ve been monitoring the error reports coming in and

Adam Stokes
26 June 2017


rharding
15 June 2017

Juju 2.2.0 and conjure-up 2.2.0 are here!

Article Cloud and server

We are excited to announce the release of Juju 2.2.0 and conjure-up 2.2.0! This release greatly enhances memory and CPU utilisation at scale, improves the modelling of networks, and adds support for KVM containers on arm64. Additionally, there is now outline support for Oracle Compute, and vSphere clouds are now easier...

rharding
15 June 2017


Canonical
11 May 2017

PCCW Global chooses Ubuntu OpenStack and Juju

News Canonical announcements

PCCW Global plans expansion to deliver enterprise, edge applications, NFV and IoT enablement to customers Integrated Canonical and CPLANE NETWORKS solution will deliver high-performance, elastic infrastructure Removes the complexity of multiple systems and OpenStack APIs streamlining service integration and leveraging...

Canonical
11 May 2017


Canonical
9 May 2017

Consortium GARR creates countrywide Federated Canonical OpenStack

Case study Canonical announcements

GARR, Italy’s leading research and education network consortium, manages a fully owned fibre optic network of 15,000 Km dedicated to Italian Research and Education and offers high performance connectivity and advanced services to around 4 million users and over 1,200 research institutes, universities, research...

Canonical
9 May 2017


Video: Managed OpenStack upgrades

Videos Cloud and server

The process of upgrading OpenStack releases can be challenging, given the many moving parts and the cadence of releases. In this use case video, Juan Carliante, Cloud Reliability Engineer for Canonical explains how Canonical’s BootStack  Engineering team solves issues arising during the upgrade process quickly using...


Canonical
18 April 2017

Unitas Global and Canonical provide fully-managed enterprise OpenStack

News Canonical announcements

Unitas Global, the leading enterprise hybrid cloud solution provider, and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container, cloud, scale out, and hyperscale computing announced they will provide a new fully managed and hosted OpenStack private cloud to enterprise clients around the world....

Canonical
18 April 2017