EKS appeal: Just snap install it says Canonical as AWSs container game goes hybrid
Digging into the tech and strategy with compute services veep Deepak Singh Interview At its virtual re:Invent conference this week, AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced Amazon EKS and ECS Anywhere, a move Canonical said enables EKS to run “anywhere you can get Ubuntu."…
Date: 2020-12-04
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