Canonical Presence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022: Strictly Confined MicroK8s, ClusterAPI Provisioning for MicroK8s, Operator Day and Numerous Presentations from Industry Experts
Detroit, MI, October 24, 2022 — Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, will once again have a major presence at this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America as a platinum sponsor. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference brings together adopters and technologists from leading open-source and cloud-native communities. It takes place Oct. 24-28, 2022, in Detroit, and includes a virtual option.
Ubuntu is the foundation for the three public cloud providers’ managed Kubernetes services – Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKS) – which is why it is the only OS that can seamlessly support workloads on any of them.
Canonical’s main activities at the conference will include:
Showcasing of Security-First Kubernetes with Strictly Confined MicroK8, Now Generally Available
Canonical is taking security one step further with Strictly Confined MicroK8s. Now generally available, Strictly Confined MicroK8s is a snap confinement level that provides complete isolation, up to a minimal access level that’s always deemed safe.
Strictly confined snaps cannot access files, networks, processes, or any other system resource without requesting specific access and uses security features of the Linux kernel, including AppArmor, seccomp, and namespaces to prevent applications and services from accessing the wider system.
Canonical will be showcasing both Strictly Confined MicroK8s and ClusterAPI: MicroK8s at booth P28.
ClusterAPI: MiroK8s on your Cloud
Canonical will also be unveiling ClusterAPI provisioning, enabling MicroK8s anywhere, at KubeCon North America. End users are consuming Kubernetes in ever more ways. ClusterAPI has stood out as the de facto standard that the industry is gravitating towards for the provisioning and management of Kubernetes at scale. Canonical’s ClusterAPI: MicroK8s can be deployed on any infrastructure provider supported by ClusterAPI.
To learn more, please stop by booth P28, Canonical will be showcasing both Strictly Confined MicroK8s and ClusterAPI: MicroK8s there.
The Fifth Edition of Virtual Operator Day
This popular Canonical-hosted virtual event, being held on Monday, October 24, from KubeCon North America, celebrates software operators, which are crucial in the Kubernetes landscape.
The event will focus on use cases where software operators have been applied successfully. Join to hear about experiences in building software operators using Juju, an open-source operator lifecycle manager, and more. To learn more, go to: https://ubuntu.com/blog/operator-day-hosted-by-canonical-oct-2022. And to register, go to: https://app.myonvent.com/event/operator-day.
Updates on Canonical’s work with Kubernetes
Canonical will highlight the extent and range of companies and industries using Ubuntu and Kubernetes to power their innovation. Ubuntu is the #1 OS for Kubernetes across the [major public] clouds, featuring strong security, best-of-breed infrastructure and app lifecycle automation, top price-performance, conformity with all Kubernetes distributions, and more than decade’s experience of working with the world’s top companies. Canonical offers two Kubernetes distributions – Charmed Kubernetes and MicroK8s – to address the full range of enterprise infrastructure, from public cloud to on-prem, to edge/IoT.
Canonical Presentations
Several presentations from industry experts are planned throughout the week, including:
Tuesday, October 25 at 3:10pm ET
This session will be a demo showcasing an automated pipeline that allows you to train an ML model in the public/private cloud then transform it into a tf.lite format and orchestrates delivery to distributed compute pools at the edge.
Wednesday, October 26 at 11:00am ET
This talk will cover all major aspects of the application lifecycle from build, test over to provision, delivery and release all the way to operational management and showcase different tools and how they can be used and combined together.
Thursday, October 27 at 3:25pm ET
This session aims to inform the architects and users of Kubernetes, as well as teams planning to transition to Kubernetes for research purposes, about how Canonical designed a high-performing Kubernetes cluster specifically geared towards ML and AI workloads.
Friday, October 28 at 2:00pm ET
Turn Me On With Cloud-Native Feature Flags! – Alex Jones, Canonical
In this talk, we look specifically at the Kubernetes-native implementation of Open Feature and illustrate how multiple types of pod workloads can now leverage feature flags.
To schedule an interview with a Canonical executive, please send an email to [email protected].
About Canonical
Canonical is the publisher of Ubuntu, the operating system for most public cloud workloads as well as the emerging categories of smart gateways, self-driving cars and advanced robots. Canonical provides enterprise security, support and services to commercial users of Ubuntu. Established in 2004, Canonical is a privately held company.