Ubuntu Linux publisher Canonical launches Managed Apps for enterprise DevOps teams

Ubuntu creator Canonical is launching a new Managed Apps platform, allowing enterprises to have their apps deployed and operated by Canonical as a fully managed service. At launch the service will cover ten widely used cloud-native database and LMA (logging, monitoring and alerting) apps on multi-cloud Kubernetes but also on virtual machines across bare-metal, public and private cloud. Databases covered include popular options like MySQL, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and ElasticSearch. Also available are network function visualization app Open Source Mano and the event streaming platform Kafka. Canonical's Managed apps service offers demand-based scaling, high availability for fault tolerance, security patching… [Continue Reading]