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Portainer and Canonical - a match made in the cloud

Canonical is the founder of Ubuntu, the OS foundation for most Kubernetes implementations, the brains behind MicroK8s, the most efficient Kube distro available today and the driving force behind Charmed Kubernetes, the engine room of enterprise-grade Kubernetes.
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Make MicroK8s and Charmed Kubernetes accessible to everyone

Portainer is the key to making MicroK8s and Charmed Kubernetes accessible to everyone inside an organization. It’s the difference between having a Kube installation users may or may not be able to interact with (based on their familiarity with CLI) and having a powerful, GUI-based Containers-as-a-Service solution platform managers and developers can interact with easily, reliably and securely day in, day out.

Portainer brings MicroK8s and Charmed Kubernetes to life whether it’s deployed in the cloud, across a hybrid cloud, on-prem or at the edge. it provides:

  • Simple GUI for end users to deploy applications into the environments
  • Monitoring and Observability dashboard for container/application monitoring
  • Ability to set up and manage Governance and Security policies to resources
  • Integration via standard Kubernetes API to allow end users to ‘bring your own tools’ 
  • Integration via standard Kubernetes API to support an existing Git based CI/CD workflow
  • Set up fine grained Role Based Access Controls leveraging external authentication

Portainer and MicroK8s

What is MicroK8s?

A low touch Kubernetes for micro clouds, thin edge and IOT. 

  • All Kubernetes services and the most popular add-ons in a single package. 
  • Minimal ops for easy clustering, self healing HA and simpler upgrades. 
  • Lightweight K8s for resource-constrained environments. 
  • Secure by default, strict confinement, and long term support.
  • Fixed price deployment.
  • Compatible with Linux, Windows and macOS. 

Getting Portainer up and running inside your MicroK8s cluster is super simple, because Portainer is already set up as an add-on. Simply type in ‘microk8s enable Portainer’ and you’re ready to go.

Watch this short Portainer with Canonical Demo

Once Portainer is up and running you can use it to deploy applications, set up RBAC restrict access to the default namespace and manage resource quotas by namespace to ensure applications perform perfectly without having to know a write a single line of YAML.

Portainer and Charmed Kubernetes

Charmed Kubernetes is Canonical’s pure upstream, composable Kubernetes distribution. It is powered by Juju and allows users to build Kubernetes clusters from the ground up and tailor them to their needs, by selecting the specific networking, storage, observability, and other cloud-native components they want to use. Charmed Kubernetes supports a multitude of cloud platforms from AWS, Azure, and GCE, to VMware, Openstack, LXD, and bare metal.

With Portainer Business managing Charmed Kubernetes, businesses have an easy way to design and manage their Kubernetes deployments at scale. Portainer Business can be deployed inside Charmed Kubernetes automatically with a charm. Visit Charmhub to find out how to get started.

Frequently asked questions

Answers to common questions we get about Kubernetes and Portainer.

Can you tell me more about the partnership between Canonical and Portainer

Yes!

Learn more about the partnership between Canonical and Portainer
Can you tell me more about the Charm integration?

Yes watch this webinar: 

Containers-as-a-service: deploy faster with Canonical and Portainer

Got a question that isn’t answered above? Get in touch!

Our team is here to answer your questions on how Portainer can accelerate your adoption of Kubernetes.

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