Portainer and Canonical expand their partnership

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Portainer Business present integrates automatically with Canonical's Charmed Kubernetes distro.

New Zealand-based Portainer announced Thursday that Canonical's Charmed Kubernetes users tin present automatically instal and integrate Portainer Business arsenic portion of the Kubernetes clump deployment process utilizing Juju's Charmed Operator Framework. According to Juju's website, the Charmed Operator Framework allows users to deploy, integrate, and negociate Kubernetes, instrumentality and VM-native applications crossed hybrid clouds.

Portainer Business transforms Kubernetes implementations into containers-as-a-service solutions. Platform managers tin usage Portainer's UI to configure a scope of policies specified arsenic relation based entree and assets quotas to power however extremity users interact with the improvement environment.

According to Canonical, Kubernetes started arsenic a elemental unfastened root instrumentality orchestration instrumentality developed by Google and has grown into a multicloud absorption platform. Kubernetes maps retired however applications enactment together, scales services up and down, performs rolling updates, and tin switch postulation betwixt antithetic versions of applications to trial features oregon rollback problematic deployments.

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Developers moving successful a Portainer-managed situation tin negociate and show their applications via immoderate dashboard oregon CI/CD instrumentality they choose. Portainer takes the spot of bid enactment interfaces to deploy and show their apps.

"Portainer Business makes managing, configuring and utilizing the services of Charmed Kubernetes ace casual for everyone involved," Neil Cresswell, CEO of Portainer.io, said successful a property release. "I'm delighted to connection the Charm to users looking for governability and information crossed their organisation wrong the integrated ecosystem of Charmed Kubernetes."

Charmed Kubernetes is Canonical's upstream, composable Kubernetes distribution. It is powered by Juju and allows users to physique Kubernetes clusters and tailor them to their needs. Charmed allows users to prime the circumstantial networking, storage, observability and different unreality autochthonal components they privation to use.

Charmed Kubernetes supports unreality platforms from AWS, Azure and GCE, arsenic good arsenic VMware, Openstack, LXD and bare metallic implementations.

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"Canonical prioritises idiosyncratic prime portion offering afloat integrated and automated operations, which is wherefore the Portainer Business Charm makes truthful overmuch consciousness arsenic portion of Charmed Kubernetes," said Alex Chalkias, task manager astatine Canonical, successful a property release. "We're immense fans of the information Portainer Business brings to companies utilizing a wide scope of CI/CD tools."

Portainer and Canonical volition beryllium showcasing the charm astatine KubeCon North America Oct. 12 and 13. Canonical publishes the Ubuntu Linux operating system.