Jorge O. Castro

Jorge O. Castro

43 posts

Cloud Community Liaison

Jorge has been working on Ubuntu since 2004 and is currently helping devops organizations get up and running on Kubernetes , an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.


Jorge O. Castro
2 March 2017

Deploying Kubernetes on AWS, GCE and bare metal

Videos Cloud and server

As part of of the weekly Kubernetes Community meeting Marco Ceppi deploys a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on AWS, GCE, and bare metal. If you’re interested in bare metal Kubernetes, we invite you to join us and other contributors in the sig-onprem community. Not sure where to get started? Check out our Getting...

Jorge O. Castro
2 March 2017


Jorge O. Castro
15 February 2017

Deploying Kubernetes on bare metal

Videos Cloud and server

Fast forward to 6 minutes, 42 seconds to begin the demo. In this demo Marco Ceppi deploys a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on 10 nodes. If you’re interested in bare metal Kubernetes, we invite you to join us and other contributors in the sig-onprem community. Not sure how to get started? Join us in our

Jorge O. Castro
15 February 2017


Jorge O. Castro
24 January 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes – Release 1.5.2

Article Cloud and server

We’re proud to announce support for Kubernetes 1.5.2 in the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. This is a pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes, designed to be easily deployable to public clouds, on-premises (ie vsphere, openstack), bare metal, and developer laptops. Kubernetes 1.5.2 is a patch release comprised of...

Jorge O. Castro
24 January 2017


Jorge O. Castro
16 December 2016

Announcing The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes 1.5.1

Article Cloud and server

We’re proud to announce support for 1.5.1 in the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. This is a pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes, designed to be easily deployable to public clouds, on-premise, bare metal, and developer laptops. Kubernetes 1.5.1 includes a ton of new features and bugfixes, and we encourage you...

Jorge O. Castro
16 December 2016


Jorge O. Castro
15 December 2016

Get 50% off Linux Foundation training and certification

Article Cloud and server

It’s been a great year for Ubuntu. More and more cloud users are turning to Ubuntu for their needs on public clouds. On the private cloud side you can find us on most production deployments of OpenStack, and we’re bringing you the latest bits of Kubernetes and other exciting cloud technologies, like fresh Docker packages.

Jorge O. Castro
15 December 2016


Jorge O. Castro
17 November 2016

Kubernetes the easy way

Article Cloud and server

If you’re interested in running Kubernetes you’ve probably heard of Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes the Hard Way. Exercises like these are important, they highlight the coordination needed between components in modern stacks, and it highlights how far the world has come when it comes to software automation. Could you...

Jorge O. Castro
17 November 2016


Jorge O. Castro
7 June 2016

Apache Bigtop and Juju: a charming approach to big data

Article Cloud and server

Juju users have been enjoying our collection of Big Data charms for over two years. During this time, we’ve learned a lot about what our users want from this complex corner of big software. The Apache Bigtop community distills best practices for installing big data software. They extensively test and package Apache big...

Jorge O. Castro
7 June 2016


Jorge O. Castro
1 March 2016

Keynote: The Magic of Application Modelling

Article Ubuntu

Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the Config Management Camp, Gent, Belgium

Jorge O. Castro
1 March 2016


Jorge O. Castro
29 February 2016

Juju Charmer Summit: Juju and Docker

Videos Cloud and server

 Docker is a great tool for developers, and Ubuntu is the number one platform for deployments by a wide margin. With Juju, deploying Docker is as easy as a visit to the charm store. Join Canonical’s Charles Butler to learn about the endless possibilities of this combination.

Jorge O. Castro
29 February 2016


Jorge O. Castro
24 February 2016

Evolution of a Charm

Article Ubuntu

Whether you want to deploy an OpenStack solution at full scale on a public cloud or just want to deploy services on your own private OpenStack cloud, Juju is the perfect solution. At Canonical, we have a team working to ensure that Juju works across all combinations of OpenStack. Join one of our OpenStack QA

Jorge O. Castro
24 February 2016


Jorge O. Castro
23 February 2016

Juju Charmer Summit: Design For Success

Article Ubuntu

This talk from Juju Charmer Summit 2015 provides a comprehensive introduction to the pieces that make Juju magic happen. We recommend that anyone interested in writing Charms or the process of charming watch this talk as, like Juju itself, it distills best practices into a repeatable formula for success. Topics covered...

Jorge O. Castro
23 February 2016


Jorge O. Castro
19 February 2016

Real world Big Data workloads in the cloud

Article Ubuntu

In this talk from SCaLE 14x Kevin Monroe talks about how we are working on getting production grade big data workloads in the cloud.

Jorge O. Castro
19 February 2016


Jorge O. Castro
17 February 2016

Juju Office Hours for February 2016

Videos Cloud and server

Come join the Charmer Summit After Party! We’re back from FOSDEM and Config Management Camp! In this session we’ll talk about the events, topics covered, and give you a sneak peek of what’s coming up in Juju 2.0.

Jorge O. Castro
17 February 2016


Jorge O. Castro
17 February 2016

Juju GUI 2.0.3 released

Videos Cloud and server

The latest release of the Juju GUI has just been packaged up and brings with it a number of small but important bug fixes: Fixed an issue where deploying the same charm multiple times would generate invalid charm names. Fixed an issue where it would require two clicks to click between services on the canvas.

Jorge O. Castro
17 February 2016


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