Deep dive into the main OpenStack component’s part 3
Welcome to part three of our blog series “Deep dive into the main OpenStack components.” In this series, we have been exploring the different components of the OpenStack platform in-depth, including Glance, Heat, Trove, Magnum, and more. In this blog, we will dive deep into the remaining OpenStack components that we haven’t discussed yet, including their […]
Deep dive into the main OpenStack components part 2
Welcome to part two of our series on the main components of OpenStack. Last week we posted a blog about the deep dive main OpenStack components, part 1. This week we bring you the deepdive into the main OpenStack components part 2. Haven’t read deep dive into the main OpenStack components part 1 yet? You […]
Deep dive into the main OpenStack components part 1
In one of our recent blogs, we described the main components of OpenStack for you. The blogs provides an overview of the main OpenStack components and describes them briefly. However, in this blog we will dive a little deeper into the various components of OpenStack and their features. If you are interested in reading our […]
Kubernetes FAQ and health check
Last year, we received several requests to conduct evaluations on Kubernetes clusters. Because Fairbanks supports all major Kubernetes distributions, the clusters we evaluated were based on upstream Kubernetes, OKD, OpenShift and as well as Rancher. The positive outcomes of the health checks on the Kubernetes clusters led us to create a free Kubernetes cluster health […]
A quick recap of Juju
What is Juju? Canonical Juju, commonly referred to as just “Juju”, is an open source software tool for deploying, configuring, managing, and scaling complex applications and services in cloud environments. Juju was created by Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu, and is written in the Go programming language. What is modelling software deployment? Juju is […]
A new OpenStack release
OpenStack is known to release a new version every half year. As the last version, OpenStack Zed, was released in October 2022, we can only assume that the next version will be released in March or April 2023. So, a new OpenStack release is coming up, but what about the most current version? We will […]
OpenInfra Summit 2023 in Vancouver
What is it? It’s time for the OpenInfra Summit again. The OpenInfra Summit is an annual event organized by the OpenInfra Foundation. According to the foundation themselves ‘’The OpenInfra Summit is a global event for open source IT infrastructure professionals to collaborate on software development, share best practices about designing and running infrastructure in production, […]
What did our lead Linux Kubernetes container engineer think of 2022?
Now that 2022 is over, we at Fairbanks and 42on like to reminisce a little on the past year. To do this from multiple perspectives we have interviewed some of our colleagues for you. In the last two blogs you can read about the 2022 experiences of Eric Kessels (Fairbanks) and Wout van Heeswijk (42on). […]
Interview with the Fairbanks and 42on HR executive
At Fairbanks and 42on we just love open source! And 2022 was another beautiful year for us, filled with open source awesomeness and challenges. As a company we are always looking forward, but for this blog, let’s look back for a minute. To gain another inside perspective, we have interviewed our HR executive for this […]
An Edge Cloud case study
Since 2019, Fairbanks has a broad and deep experience with Edge Computing, whether it is based on virtual machines, containers or a combination of the two. Recently, we helped one of our clients with a setup of an Edge Computing architecture and with the implementation of the infrastructure. The case was a little different than […]
