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12 posts from March 2022
The software operator design pattern — part 2
By Michael C. Jaeger, 31 March 2022
This blog post continues with the previous blog post about design patterns and the software operator pattern. In this part, this post takes a closer look at...
Design patterns and the software operator — part 1
By Michael C. Jaeger, 31 March 2022
In the early days of software development, computers were sold with compilers and interpreters. Users wrote mostly their own small programs instead of buying...
Operator Day hosted by Canonical at Kubecon EU 2022
By Michael C. Jaeger, 31 March 2022
May 16th 2022, virtual eventWeek of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2022 What is Operator Day? Software operators are crucial elements in the Kubernetes...
OpenStack Yoga on Ubuntu LTS delivers highly performant infrastructure for telcos and researchers with SmartNICs and DPUs
By Canonical, 31 March 2022
March 31, London – Canonical today announced the general availability of OpenStack Yoga on Ubuntu 22.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Beta and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS....
LXD vs Docker
By Miona Aleksic, 31 March 2022
When talking about containers, a common confusion for potential users of LXD is that LXD is an alternative to Docker or Kubernetes. However, LXD and Docker...
Getting started with Juju and Charmed Operators: three awesome videos
By Michael C. Jaeger, 30 March 2022
Getting started with software can be confusing – depending on the complexity of the software, of course. Despite the extensive documentation available for...
Firmus Supercloud sets a new standard for sustainable cloud computing with Canonical’s open infrastructure
By Canonical, 28 March 2022
March 29th, 2022—Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces that Firmus, the Australian cloud infrastructure provider that is revolutionising data centre...
Cloud Adjacent Storage
By Philip Williams, 16 March 2022
What is cloud adjacent storage? Put simply, cloud adjacent storage is just a privately owned and operated storage system, within network reach of a cloud...
What are Linux containers?
By Miona Aleksic, 15 March 2022
This blog explains what are Linux containers, how they differ from application containers, and when should you use them.
Deep work in interesting times
By Bill Wear, 10 March 2022
Prologue As programmers and tech writers, we are creators, and we are knowledge workers. We strive to do rare and valuable work, regardless of the...
Enable FIPS on Google Cloud
By Hugo Huang, 9 March 2022
Ubuntu Pro FIPS images are now available in Google Cloud. Find out more about why you need a FIPS-compliant environment and how you can be FIPS compliant in...
OpenStack is dead? The numbers speak for themselves.
By Tytus Kurek, 3 March 2022
Austin, Texas – 3rd of March 2022 – OpenStack is dead! A masked man in a black cloak with “public clouds”, “containers” and ”serverless” inscriptions shot...