Charmed Operators

Michael C. Jaeger
6 February 2024

Operate popular open source on Kubernetes – Attend Operator Day at KubeCon EU 2024

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Operate popular open source on Kubernetes – Attend Operator Day at KubeCon EU 2024

Michael C. Jaeger
6 February 2024

Michael C. Jaeger
9 January 2024

Understanding roles in software operators

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In today’s blog we take a closer look at roles – the key elements that make up the design pattern – and how they work together to simplify maintaining application infrastructure.

Michael C. Jaeger
9 January 2024

Michael C. Jaeger
4 September 2023

Efficiency redefined: Discover the power of software operators during Operator Day, co-located at KubeCon North America 2023

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The 7th Operator Day is a virtual event and will take place on the first day of the KubeCon week, Monday, 6 November 2023. The event is entirely virtual. You can dial in from anywhere and attend. You can register at the KubeCon NA 2023 conference or directly at the event page.

Michael C. Jaeger
4 September 2023

Michael C. Jaeger
9 May 2023

Kubecon EU 2023: Operator Day hosted by Canonical – recordings available

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The Operator Day at KubeCon EU 2023, hosted by Canonical, took place on Monday, 17 April 2023. We thank everyone for attending the event. Our thanks go out especially to those who engaged with each other during the sessions, asked questions and contributed to our interactive event. If you missed this 6th edition of Operator

Michael C. Jaeger
9 May 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?

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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
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

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

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

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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

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