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Blog posts tagged "Juju"

What is Juju? (Introduction video)

This is a basic introductory video explaining what Juju is and how it can help you deploy workloads to the cloud.

Automating Orchestration in the Cloud with Ubuntu Juju

Charles Butler explains how to automate orchestration with Juju during this talk at the 2014 USENIX Configuration Management Summit.

Using the Local (LXC) Provider with Juju

Juju has the ability to leverage Linux containers (LXC) to deploy charms locally to your desktop/laptop. This lets you iterate quickly during development in a manner similar to a real cloud.

Using and creating Juju Charm Bundles

A “bundle” is a set of Juju charms that come together as one file. It makes it easier for people to deploy complex sets of services in one go.

Adding tests to your Juju charms with Amulet

In this charm workshop Marco Ceppi talks about how you can add tests to your Juju charms using Amulet, our test framework.

Writing your own Juju plugins

Sometimes core Juju might not have a feature you want, or you want to put together custom scripts to make life easier. Juju has a plugin architecture that lets you do just that. In this workshop Marco Ceppi walks us through how to write your own plugin.

Using Vagrant and Juju together

In this workshop we go over how to use Vagrant and Juju together for writing charms.

Gettinng Started with Charm Testing

In this workshop we explain what Juju Charm testing is, how to get started using it, and how the infrastructure works. Make sure you check out the charm testing documentation so you can leverage these tools!

Ubuntu with Redis Labs, Altera and IBM Power supply new NoSQL data store solution

Big Data, scale and cloud are the big topics of technology today. Canonical with Ubuntu continues to drive innovation through commitment to openness and building a collaborative ecosystem. The key elements of this disruption include: innovation, automation, lower TCO, greater density, optimised power/performance ratios and new architectur

Zabbix joins Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

We are excited to announce Zabbix SIA, the newest member of our Charm Partner Programme.  This programme lets solution providers make best use of Canonical’s award-winning open source cloud orchestration tool, Juju, which allows them to: demo their product in minutes; instantly integrate it into hundreds of other solutions; scale at the c

Ubuntu OpenStack reference implementation

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform. Ubuntu is the reference operating system for the OpenStack project, which is why deploying OpenStack with Ubuntu is the best way to ensure a straightforward implementation. Ubuntu OpenStack contains all the current integrated OpenStack projects and some additional technologies beneficial to he

Juju Machine View: more control at your fingertips

The Juju UI Engineering team has been hard at work on a whole new way to visualise your Juju deployments. Juju provides a unique perspective on your workloads as it focuses on the services that perform the work and less on the hardware details as that’s malleable and transient from deployment to deployment and cloud

Instant Big Data and other solutions

For each new technology that becomes trendy you can buy a book with an animal on the cover. The first chapters will guide you through installing, integrating and scaling the new technology. This was fine when software was just a couple of apt-gets away. With horizontally scalable solutions, micro-services, containers, PaaS platforms, Big

Juju plays in the big leagues at Linux Foundation survey

“Juju is amazing!” is a phrase we at Canonical have grown accustomed to hearing from customers and prospects who see the powerful service orchestration tool for the first time. The incredible speed and smoothness with which Juju deploys and manages highly complex cloud applications is unrivalled and a well-known fact to anyone using Ubunt

Cloud Magic – See the Juju Demo on IBM POWER8

IBM recently posted  “Cloud Magic! Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems with POWER8”, a video clip of the very first live demo of Ubuntu on POWER8 (with Little Endian mode). Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, provided this demo alongside IBM’s Doug Balog, General Manager, IBM Power Systems, during a keynote at IBM Impact. Check

Dell/Canonical Whitepaper: Juju with KVM and LXC in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

This whitepaper, co-authored by Dell and Canonical,will show you how to easily deploy cloud services on a single Dell PowerEdge server or a laptop (if that’s all you have). It illustrates how easily you can take the cloud with you using Linux containers, virtualization and Juju orchestration software from Canonical. Though Juju is normall