--- title: "Multi-cloud Kubernetes management with Portainer\n | Ubuntu" description: This blog points to a tutorial by Portainer.io to enable the container management solution on top of Charmed Kubernetes for multi-cloud container lifecycle automation. url: https://ubuntu.com/blog/multi-cloud-kubernetes-management-with-portainer?format=md keywords: index, follow --- 1. [Blog](https://ubuntu.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Alex Chalkias](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/achalkias "More about Alex Chalkias") 9 March 2021 # Multi-cloud Kubernetes management with Portainer --- Share the article If you feel intimidated by Kubernetes’ complexity but still need to modernize your business applications with containers, rest assured you’re not the only one. The container orchestration platform solves many problems but also creates new ones, so read on to find out about a new approach that can help you get just the benefits. Our friends over at [Portainer](https://www.portainer.io/) have been recently experimenting with Canonical’s Kubernetes distributions and created tutorials on how to run their container management system, which significantly simplifies the Kubernetes experience through an intuitive UI. They [started small with MicroK8s](https://ubuntu.com/blog/portainer-recommends-microk8s), a lightweight Kubernetes for edge and IoT, and then looked at more complex enterprise use cases with Charmed Kubernetes on the Azure cloud. **The following tutorial is a direct repost of the original article on** [**portainer.io blog**](https://www.portainer.io/blog/using-portainer-to-manage-canonical-charmed-kubernetes)**.** [Follow the Tutorial](https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-install-portainer-on-canonical-kubernetes?utm_source=blog) You can also follow along on youtube here: [Install Charmed Kubernetes](https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes/install?utm_source=blog) [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Newsletter signup Get the latest Ubuntu news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/data-privacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### How we create a Canonical Academy exam](https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-we-create-a-canonical-academy-exam) Open source provides the world with access to cutting-edge software, and the learning that comes with it. But how do you validate someone’s skills in an open ecosystem?... [Ishani Ghoshal](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/ishanighoshal) 2 September 2026 [### Surviving the uncharted: when dedicated OpenStack expertise is your best ally in disaster recovery](https://ubuntu.com/blog/support-restores-openstack) A customer’s OpenStack control plane went down overnight after their only backup proved stale. Canonical support rebuilt the database cluster live, service by service, without... [Lidia Luna Puerta](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/lidia-luna) 1 September 2026 [### Canonical joins the Open Secure AI Alliance](https://ubuntu.com/blog/open-secure-ai-alliance) Canonical is now part of the Open Secure AI Alliance, announced by NVIDIA with partners across cloud computing, cybersecurity, enterprise software, open source foundations, and... [Canonical](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/canonical) 28 August 2026 [### AI harnesses for telco autonomous networks](https://ubuntu.com/blog/ai-harnesses-for-telco-autonomous-networks) As the telco industry transitions toward Autonomous Networks Level 4, a fundamental architectural challenge has emerged: how do you build a secure, reliable and interoperable... [estelacarmona](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/estelacarmona) 28 August 2026