Blog posts tagged
"juju resource"

12 posts

Alex Cattle
6 November 2019

Yahoo! Japan builds their IaaS environment with Canonical

Article Cloud and server

Yahoo! Japan, originally formed as a joint venture between Yahoo! and SoftBank, is one of the most popular internet advertising, search engines and e-commerce sites in the country and employs over 6000 people. Due to having such scale and volume of users, Yahoo! Japan required outside help to build their IaaS...

Alex Cattle
6 November 2019

Camille Rodriguez
17 October 2019

Kubernetes on a single machine

Article Cloud and server

As developers, we do not always have access to a production-like environment to test new features and run proof-of-concepts. This is why it can be very interesting to deploy Kubernetes on a single machine. Of course, there is the new microk8s snap that allows a super fast deployment of a k8s cluster on a laptop

Camille Rodriguez
17 October 2019

Tytus Kurek
16 October 2019

Ansible vs Terraform vs Juju: Competition or cooperation?

Article DevOps

Ansible vs Terraform vs Juju vs Chef vs SaltStack vs Puppet vs CloudFormation – there are so many tools available out there. What are these tools? Do I need all of them? Are they competing with each other or cooperating? The answer is not really straightforward. It usually depends on your needs and the particular

Tytus Kurek
16 October 2019

Tytus Kurek
6 August 2019

Declarative vs Imperative: DevOps done right

Article Cloud and server

Deciding whether to automate workloads, while designing your ICT infrastructure, is trivial. It’s 2019 and automation is everywhere around. However, deciding which DevOps paradigm to choose and which tool to use, may not be that obvious. In order to assist you with the ‘declarative vs imperative’ decision-making...

Tytus Kurek
6 August 2019

Alex Cattle
6 December 2018

How to harness big data for maximum business value

Article Canonical announcements

Are you getting maximum value from your big data? Despite most businesses understanding the power and competitive advantage they could gain from harnessing their big data more effectively and leveraging it more efficiently, it’s not an easy goal to achieve. That’s why we’ve partnered with Spicule to co-present, ‘How to...

Alex Cattle
6 December 2018

Michael Iatrou
5 December 2018

Minimum viable Kubernetes

Article Cloud and server

The appeal of Kubernetes is universal. Application development, operations and infrastructure teams recognise diverse reasons for its immediate utility and growing potential — a testament of Kubernetes’ empathetic design. Web apps, galvanised by the 12 factor pattern as well as microservice-structured applications find...

Michael Iatrou
5 December 2018

Simon Fels
29 November 2018

Running Android in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 A1 instances

Article Cloud and server

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of their new Amazon EC2 A1 instances powered by custom AWS Graviton processors based on the Arm architecture, which brings Arm to the public cloud as a first class citizen. Arm based processors provide a number of benefits in terms of density and power-consumption...

Simon Fels
29 November 2018

James Nunns
12 November 2018

Using Juju to manage evolving complex software

Article Cloud and server

With developers increasingly moving towards microservices – and with the growing prevalence of the cloud as the default platform – software has become more complex than ever. While installing all of the interconnected applications that make up a modern software stack is becoming easier, the real sting in the tail comes...

James Nunns
12 November 2018

Canonical
9 November 2018

Making sense of your big data

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Spicule have joined forces to bring your business a better option for open source big data and streaming analytics. You can learn more about us at some of our upcoming events – read on to find out more. Or, jump right in and get started using JAAS to deploy a fully supported Hadoop

Canonical
9 November 2018

Kevin W Monroe
23 August 2018

The Road to Kubernetes & vSphere Integration

Article Cloud and server

This article on Kubernetes & vSphere integration originally appeared at Kevin Monroe’s blog Background Recently, Juju began supporting cloud-native features via “integrator” charms (e.g.: aws-integrator, gcp-integrator, openstack-integrator). These allow charms to request things like persistent storage from a cloud...

Kevin W Monroe
23 August 2018

tcuthbert
17 July 2018

How to Manage Multi-Cloud Services with Juju

Article Cloud and server

Introduction Managing a service with deployments in multi-cloud environments can be a challenge in terms of troubleshooting and scalability due to the complexity of dealing with different public cloud providers. An effective way to manage services deployed cross-cloud is to use tools that allow you to define your...

tcuthbert
17 July 2018

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