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Blog posts tagged
"kubernetes"


James Donner
3 March 2017

Cloud Chatter: February 2017

Cloud and server Article

Our February edition is packed with great content! We kick off with explaining why software-defined everything matters and give you a recap of Mobile World Congress. Download our latest whitepaper on containers, or join our upcoming webinars on OpenStack, Containers and MAAS. We’ve also included a fantastic host of tutorials for getting s ...


Jorge O. Castro
2 March 2017

Deploying Kubernetes on AWS, GCE and bare metal

Cloud and server Videos

As part of of the weekly Kubernetes Community meeting Marco Ceppi deploys a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on AWS, GCE, and bare metal. If you’re interested in bare metal Kubernetes, we invite you to join us and other contributors in the sig-onprem community. Not sure where to get started? Check out our Getting Started documentation. ...


Cezzaine Zaher
27 February 2017

The no-nonsense way to accelerate your business with containers

Cloud and server White paper

Container technology has brought about a step-change in virtualisation technology. Organisations implementing containers see considerable opportunities to improve agility, efficiency, speed, and manageability within their IT environments. Containers promise to improve datacenter efficiency and performance without having to make additional ...


Dustin Kirkland
24 February 2017

Dustin Kirkland: The questions that you’re afraid to ask about containers

Cloud and server Article

Yesterday, I delivered a talk to a lively audience at ContainerWorld in Santa Clara, California.If I measured “the most interesting slides” by counting “the number of people who took a picture of the slide”, then by far “the most interesting slides” ar ...


Stéphane Graber
20 February 2017

Running Kubernetes inside LXD

Cloud and server Article

Introduction For those who haven’t heard of Kubernetes before, it’s defined by the upstream project as: Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical … Continue reading → ...


Jorge O. Castro
15 February 2017

Deploying Kubernetes on bare metal

Cloud and server Videos

Fast forward to 6 minutes, 42 seconds to begin the demo. In this demo Marco Ceppi deploys a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on 10 nodes. If you’re interested in bare metal Kubernetes, we invite you to join us and other contributors in the sig-onprem community. Not sure how to get started? Join us in our ...


Samuel Cozannet
15 February 2017

GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 1/3

Cloud and server Article

A few weeks ago I shared a side project about Building a DYI GPU cluster for k8s to play with Kubernetes with a proper ROI vs. AWS g2 instances. This was spectacularly interesting when AWS was lagging behind with old nVidia K20s cards (which are not supported anymore on the latest drivers). But with the ...


Samuel Cozannet
8 February 2017

Automate the deployment of Kubernetes in existing AWS infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

When I talk about Ubuntu and Kubernetes, and how we deploy the latter at Canonical using Juju, the main question I get is: Can you deploy in an existing infrastructure? Often, existing infrastructure means the VPC and/or subnets that I have been allocated to do my work on AWS. What is better than a little ...


Samuel Cozannet
30 January 2017

Installing a DIY bare metal GPU cluster for Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

I don’t know if you have ever seen one of the Orange Boxes from Canonical These are really sleek machines. They contain 10 Intel NUCs, plus an 11th one for the management. They are used as a demonstration tool for big software stacks such as OpenStack, Hadoop, and, of course, Kubernetes. They are freely available ...


James Donner
27 January 2017

Deploying The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes onto AWS

Cloud and server Article

  This week, we announced the availability of release 1.5.2 of The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. This is a pure upstream kubernetes developed in collaboration with Google that works across all major public clouds and private infrastructure. We’re excited for people to try out the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes, so we’ve put ...


Jorge O. Castro
24 January 2017

Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes – Release 1.5.2

Cloud and server Article

We’re proud to announce support for Kubernetes 1.5.2 in the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. This is a pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes, designed to be easily deployable to public clouds, on-premises (ie vsphere, openstack), bare metal, and developer laptops. Kubernetes 1.5.2 is a patch release comprised of mostly bugfixes, a ...


Tom Callway
4 January 2017

Join our OpenStack and Containers Office Hours

Cloud and server Article

Sign-up for a 1 hour web session with an expert from Canonical Starting in 2017, we will be running a series of ‘Office Hours’ online sessions to help community members and customers deploy, manage and scale their Ubuntu-based cloud infrastructure. Upcoming sessions New sessions will be announced soon, stay tuned! What’s covered? These in ...