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Blog posts tagged
"Charmed Operators"

Michael C. Jaeger
6 February 2024

Operate popular open source on Kubernetes – Attend Operator Day at KubeCon EU 2024

Charms Article

Operate popular open source on Kubernetes – Attend Operator Day at KubeCon EU 2024 ...

Michael C. Jaeger
9 January 2024

Understanding roles in software operators

Charms Article

In today’s blog we take a closer look at roles – the key elements that make up the design pattern – and how they work together to simplify maintaining application infrastructure. ...

Michael C. Jaeger
4 September 2023

Efficiency redefined: Discover the power of software operators during Operator Day, co-located at KubeCon North America 2023

Charms Article

The 7th Operator Day is a virtual event and will take place on the first day of the KubeCon week, Monday, 6 November 2023. The event is entirely virtual. You can dial in from anywhere and attend. You can register at the KubeCon NA 2023 conference or directly at the event page. ...

Michael C. Jaeger
15 December 2022

Repatriation to reduce public cloud spend – easier said than done?

Cloud and server Article

Repatriation in cloud computing refers to moving workloads from the public cloud to on-premise infrastructure. Sarah Wang and Martin Casado from Andreessen Horowitz have written one of the most popular articles about repatriation: they explain the motivation with the significant cost savings possible. For software-based businesses, public ...

Michael C. Jaeger
16 September 2022

Join us at Operator Day, hosted by Canonical at Kubecon NA 2022

Cloud and server Article

The 5th Operator Day is coming up. It will take place at KubeCon North America 2022. This edition will center on cases where software operators have been applied successfully. Join us to hear about our experience in building software operators using Juju, an open-source operator lifecycle manager. Operators implemented for Juju are called ...

Michael C. Jaeger
30 June 2022

The software operator design pattern: disadvantages – part 5

Charms Article

The software operator is a design pattern – it is a proven design that has been applied in many situations and implemented by several frameworks. Its widespread adoption in the industry has allowed us to study its consequences, both good and bad. This is important because software developers and IT architects need to know when ...

Michael C. Jaeger
29 June 2022

The software operator design pattern: advantages – part 4

Cloud and server Article

The software operator is a design pattern. Its design is based on successful applications where this approach was found useful. In other words, it’s a proven approach that can be recommended to others. But like all approaches, it’s important to understand their positive and negative impact. Software developers need to understand when the ...

Michael C. Jaeger
16 June 2022

Operator Day at Kubecon EU 2022 – recordings available!

Charms Article

The Operator Day at Kubecon EU 2022, hosted by Canonical, took place on Monday 16 May  2022. We thank everyone for attending the event. Our thanks go out especially to those who engaged with us via chat during the online event. We enjoyed answering questions and having conversations during the presentations.  If you missed Operator ...

Michael C. Jaeger
12 June 2022

The software operator design pattern: May the force be with you – Part 3

Charms Article

The software operator is a design pattern. A design pattern describes the approach to cover the operational tasks of an application’s implementation. The first post in this series introduced the concept of a design pattern in general. The second post covers the software operator design pattern in particular. In the second part, we also ex ...

Michael C. Jaeger
31 March 2022

The software operator design pattern — part 2

Charms Article

This blog post continues with the previous blog post about design patterns and the software operator pattern. In this part, this post takes a closer look at the description of the software operator pattern. What is a design pattern? Over the years, the software development and programming community developed a common understanding of desi ...

Michael C. Jaeger
31 March 2022

Design patterns and the software operator — part 1

Charms Article

In the early days of software development, computers were sold with compilers and interpreters. Users wrote mostly their own small programs instead of buying software. During that time, most didn’t even consider downloading software as only a few were connected to mailboxes or the UUCP network. Most of the software was provided by the com ...

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