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class="p-rule is-fixed-width" /> <div class="row"> <div class="aside col-3 col-medium-2"> <p> <a href="/blog/author/anton5mith">Anton Smith</a> <br /> 1 February 2022 </p> </div> <div class="col-6 col-medium-4"> <h3 class="p-heading--4"> <a href="/blog/bare-metal-kubernetes-as-a-service-canonical-maas-and-spectrocloud-webinar">Bare metal Kubernetes as a Service: Canonical MAAS and SpectroCloud Webinar</a> </h3> <span class="p-chip--information"> <span class="p-chip__value"> Ubuntu </span> </span> <span class="p-chip--information"> <span class="p-chip__value"> Article </span> </span> <p class="u-hide--small u-hide--medium">Developers want Kubernetes infrastructure that is fast, consistent, and without limits! Platform engineering, IT, and DevOps teams are adopting Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS) now more than ever before to streamline efficiency for dev teams and operations. But what happens when the requirement involves deploying clusters directly on top of ...</p> </div> <div class="col-3 u-hide--small u-hide--medium"> <a href="/blog/bare-metal-kubernetes-as-a-service-canonical-maas-and-spectrocloud-webinar" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"> <div class="p-image-wrapper"><img alt="" height="185" loading="lazy" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,e_sharpen,c_fill,w_330,h_185/https://ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/bec0/maas-spectrocloud.png" srcset="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,e_sharpen,c_fill,w_660,h_370/https://ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/bec0/maas-spectrocloud.png 2x" width="330"/></div> </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <hr class="p-rule is-fixed-width" /> <div class="row"> <div class="aside col-3 col-medium-2"> <p> <a href="/blog/author/anton5mith">Anton Smith</a> <br /> 27 January 2022 </p> </div> <div class="col-6 col-medium-4"> <h3 class="p-heading--4"> <a href="/blog/understanding-bare-metal-kubernetes">Understanding bare metal Kubernetes</a> </h3> <span class="p-chip--information"> <span class="p-chip__value"> Kubernetes </span> </span> <span class="p-chip--information"> <span class="p-chip__value"> Article </span> </span> <p class="u-hide--small u-hide--medium">Bare metal Kubernetes is a powerful set of technologies that builds on the best ideas behind the public and private cloud, yet abstracts away some toilsome aspects related to virtualisation management and networking. For operators and users, it provides significant benefits, making it easier and faster to ship and maintain complex, distri ...</p> </div> <div class="col-3 u-hide--small u-hide--medium"> <a href="/blog/understanding-bare-metal-kubernetes" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"> <div class="p-image-wrapper"><img alt="" height="185" loading="lazy" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,e_sharpen,c_fill,w_330,h_185/https://ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/215d/kvistholt-photography-oZPwn40zCK4-unsplash.jpg" srcset="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,e_sharpen,c_fill,w_660,h_370/https://ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/215d/kvistholt-photography-oZPwn40zCK4-unsplash.jpg 2x" width="330"/></div> </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <hr class="p-rule is-fixed-width" /> <div class="row"> <div class="aside col-3 col-medium-2"> <p> <a href="/blog/author/anton5mith">Anton Smith</a> <br /> 14 December 2021 </p> </div> <div class="col-6 col-medium-4"> <h3 class="p-heading--4"> <a href="/blog/6-things-you-wish-you-knew-about-bare-metal-kubernetes-before-2022">Bare metal Kubernetes: The 6 things you wish you knew before 2022</a> </h3> <span class="p-chip--information"> <span class="p-chip__value"> Cloud and server </span> </span> <span class="p-chip--information"> <span class="p-chip__value"> Article </span> </span> <p class="u-hide--small u-hide--medium">2022 is right around the corner, and it’s not just time to prepare for Christmas, play video games, buy presents, or share anti-Christmas memes. It’s time to start making some predictions for bare metal Kubernetes! Take a minute and let’s think about it. Developers have advent of code so they’re busy right now. Sysadmins and ...</p> </div> <div class="col-3 u-hide--small u-hide--medium"> <a href="/blog/6-things-you-wish-you-knew-about-bare-metal-kubernetes-before-2022" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"> <div class="p-image-wrapper"><img alt="" height="185" loading="lazy" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,e_sharpen,c_fill,w_330,h_185/https://ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/6563/pine-watt-3_Xwxya43hE-unsplash-smaller.jpg" srcset="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,e_sharpen,c_fill,w_660,h_370/https://ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/6563/pine-watt-3_Xwxya43hE-unsplash-smaller.jpg 2x" width="330"/></div> </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <hr class="p-rule is-fixed-width" /> <div class="row"> <div class="aside col-3 col-medium-2"> <p> <a href="/blog/author/anton5mith">Anton Smith</a> <br /> 8 October 2021 </p> </div> <div class="col-6 col-medium-4"> <h3 class="p-heading--4"> <a href="/blog/bare-metal-kubernetes-clusters-spectro-cloud-maas">Provisioning bare metal Kubernetes clusters with Spectro Cloud and MAAS</a> </h3> <span class="p-chip--information"> <span class="p-chip__value"> Cloud and server </span> </span> <span class="p-chip--information"> <span class="p-chip__value"> Article </span> </span> <p class="u-hide--small u-hide--medium">Bare metal Kubernetes (K8s) is now easier than ever. Spectro Cloud has recently posted an article about integrating Kubernetes with MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service. In the article, they describe how they have created a provider for the Kubernetes Cluster API for Canonical MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service). This blog describes briefly the benefits of ba ...</p> </div> <div class="col-3 u-hide--small u-hide--medium"> <a href="/blog/bare-metal-kubernetes-clusters-spectro-cloud-maas" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"> <div class="p-image-wrapper"><img alt="" height="185" loading="lazy" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,e_sharpen,c_fill,w_330,h_185/https://ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/960b/servers.jpg" srcset="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,e_sharpen,c_fill,w_660,h_370/https://ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/960b/servers.jpg 2x" width="330"/></div> </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <hr class="p-rule is-fixed-width" /> <div class="row"> <div class="aside col-3 col-medium-2"> <p> <a href="/blog/author/anton5mith">Anton Smith</a> <br /> 24 September 2021 </p> </div> <div class="col-6 col-medium-4"> <h3 class="p-heading--4"> <a href="/blog/bare-metal-cloud-support-for-ubuntu-14-04-and-16-04-lts">Bare metal cloud support for Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 LTS</a> </h3> <span class="p-chip--information"> <span class="p-chip__value"> Cloud and server </span> </span> <span class="p-chip--information"> <span class="p-chip__value"> Article </span> </span> <p class="u-hide--small u-hide--medium">Now that Canonical is prolonging the lifecycle of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’ and 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ to a total of ten years, it’s a good time to reflect on how else Canonical supports these releases for bare metal cloud. 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