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"conjure-up"

Michael Iatrou
5 December 2018

Minimum viable Kubernetes

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 a native habitat in ...

Stephan Fabel
13 August 2018

Deploying Kubernetes on Public Clouds is hard – or is it?

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Automate your Kubernetes deployments on AWS, Azure, and Google Recently, there’s been talk about how Kubernetes has become hard to deploy and run on virtual substrates such as those offered by the public clouds. Indeed, the cloud-specific quirks around infrastructure provisioning, including storage, networking assets such as load balancer ...

David Callé
2 February 2018

Tutorial: Install single-server OpenStack with conjure-up

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

OpenStack is the de facto open source standard to build private and public clouds. We believe deploying and getting familiar with OpenStack should be an easy task for all developers, that’s why we have built conjure-up, a simple interface to deploy big software with best practices built-in. In this tutorial, you will learn how to ...

Kevin W Monroe
16 January 2018

Monitor your Kubernetes Cluster

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 applications to work ...

Konstantinos Tsakalozos
1 November 2017

Heptio Contour on the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

I read the Hacker News post Heptio Contour and I thought “Cool! A project from our friends at Heptio, lets see what they got for us”. I wont lie to you, at first I was a bit disappointed because there was no special mention for Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) but I understand, I am asking too much :). Let me cover this gap here ...

Canonical
26 October 2017

Glowing Bear and Weechat in Kubernetes with Helm

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This article originally appeared on Mike Wilson’s blog Having a renewed interest in irc again, I found that the best option to stay in touch is to keep Weechat running all the time and relaying the chat to Glowing Bear. This allows for notifications on my phone of mentions and being able to see missed chat when away ...

James Page
13 October 2017

OpenStack Development Summary – October 13, 2017

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Welcome to the seventh Ubuntu OpenStack development summary! This summary is intended to be a regular communication of activities and plans happening in and around Ubuntu OpenStack, covering but not limited to the distribution and deployment of OpenStack on Ubuntu. If there is something that you would like to see covered in future summari ...

Michael Iatrou
12 October 2017

Kubernetes the not so easy way

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

A few years ago, the simplest method to deploy and operate Kubernetes on Ubuntu was with conjure-up. Whether the substrate is a public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) private virtualized environments (VMware) or bare metal, conjure-up will allow you to quickly install a fully functional, production-grade Kubernetes. But what if you wanted to ...

Adam Stokes
26 August 2017

conjure-up dev summary: you like LXD? we like LXD. Put your floaties on and step up to the Helm!

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

LXDWe’ve taken some preliminary steps in providing the user better feedback when wanting to deploy onto the localhost provider. If conjure-up isn’t able to talk to the same API endpoints Juju can then our probability of success is next to none.We do some fancy realtime UI updates so ...

Adam Stokes
26 June 2017

Conjure-up dev summary: Week 25

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

With conjure-up 2.2.2 out the door we bring a whole host of improvements!sudo snap install conjure-up --classic Improved LocalhostWe recently switched over to using a bundled LXD and with that change came a few hiccups in deployments. We’ve been monitoring the error reports coming in and ...

rharding
15 June 2017

Juju 2.2.0 and conjure-up 2.2.0 are here!

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

We are excited to announce the release of Juju 2.2.0 and conjure-up 2.2.0! This release greatly enhances memory and CPU utilisation at scale, improves the modelling of networks, and adds support for KVM containers on arm64. Additionally, there is now outline support for Oracle Compute, and vSphere clouds are now easier to deploy. conjure- ...

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