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Blog posts tagged
"MicroK8s"


anaqvi
25 September 2019

Deploying Kubernetes Locally – MicroK8s

Kubernetes Article

This is the second part of our introduction to MicroK8s. In the previous blog, we introduced MicroK8s, went over some K8s basic concepts and showed you how fast and easy it is to install Kubernetes with MicroK8s — it’s up in under 60 seconds with a one-liner command. In this blog, we dive deeper to ...


Canonical
18 September 2019

Kubernetes 1.16 available from Canonical

Ubuntu Article

Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.16, with support covering Charmed Kubernetes, MicroK8s and kubeadm. MicroK8s will be updated with Kubernetes 1.16 enabling users access to the latest upstream release with a single-line command in under 60 seconds. In addition, MicroK8s gets new add-ons with one line installs of ...


anaqvi
16 September 2019

Introduction to MicroK8s

Cloud and server Article

Every developer, systems admin and tech enthusiast is interested in learning Kubernetes. Kubernetes is a complex container orchestration tool that can be overwhelming for beginners. Kubernetes has been the buzzword in the tech industry and for good reason. If you’re itching to get started with Kubernetes and not looking forward to the com ...


anaqvi
26 August 2019

MicroK8s Version 1.16.0 Beta Released!

Ubuntu Article

We’re excited to announce the release of MicroK8s 1.16 beta! MicroK8s is a lightweight and reliable Kubernetes cluster delivered as a single snap package – it can be installed on any Linux distribution which supports snaps or Windows and Mac using Multipass. MicroK8s is small and simple to install and is a great way to ...


Carmine Rimi
26 August 2019

Kubernetes 1.16 beta now available, with support from Canonical

Cloud and server Article

Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.16, starting with the beta release, with support covering the following installation mechanisms – kubeadm, Charmed Kubernetes, and MicroK8s.  The beta release of Kubernetes offers users an opportunity to test some of the upcoming features and to validate containerised workloads ...


anaqvi
23 August 2019

MicroK8s gets powerful add-ons

Ubuntu Article

We are excited to announce new Cilium and Helm add-ons, coming to MicroK8s! These add-ons add even more power to your Kubernetes environment built on MicroK8s. The Cilium CNI plugin brings enhanced networking features, including Kubernetes NetworkPolicy support, to MicroK8s. You’ll also get direct CLI access to Cilium within MicroK8s usin ...


Galem KAYO
29 July 2019

Edge computing monitoring with Kubernetes

Internet of Things Article

This blog demonstrates how to easily deploy monitoring tools at the edge using Kubernetes. In IoT scenarios, such a deployment brings the benefits of privacy, latency and minimal bandwidth cost. Luckily, MicroK8s the single node Kubernetes, caters for such use cases. The beauty of MicroK8s is that deployment can be done in a couple of ...


Stephan Fabel
25 July 2019

The 10 new rules of open source infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

Recently, I gave a keynote at the Cloud Native / OpenStack Days in Tokyo titled “the ten new rules of open source infrastructure”. It was well received and folks pointed out on Twitter that they would like to see more detail around those ten rules. Others seemed to benefit from clarifying commentary. I’ve attempted to ...


Carmine Rimi
25 July 2019

Getting Started with Serverless Computing using Knative

Cloud and server Article

A portable, multi-cloud install for Knative, using Microk8s. ...


Sarah Dickinson
23 July 2019

Community Snapcrafter on MicroK8s, summits and the evolving nature of snaps

Desktop Article

In January 2018, Dani Llewellyn joined her first Snapcraft Summit in Seattle in her role as a community Snapcrafter. At that event, we discussed her views on everything snap related from most requested snaps, new feature requests and popular discussion topics. Since then, snaps has grown across every metric and seen numerous new high prof ...


wgs1
20 June 2019

Kubernetes on Mac: how to set up

Cloud and server Article

UPDATED in July 2020 with the latest instruction set. Are you looking for a Kubernetes solution to run on your Mac? MicroK8s is a lightweight, pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes developed by Canonical. It’s a compact Linux snap that installs a single-node Kubernetes cluster alongside carefully selected add-ons on Linux, Windows and ...