Cloud and server
Automating Orchestration in the Cloud with Ubuntu Juju
by Jorge O. Castro on 17 October 2014
Charles Butler explains how to automate orchestration with Juju during this talk at the 2014 USENIX Configuration Management Summit. […]
Cloud and server
Using the Local (LXC) Provider with Juju
by Jorge O. Castro on 17 October 2014
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. […]
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Using and creating Juju Charm Bundles
by Jorge O. Castro on 17 October 2014
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. […]
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Adding tests to your Juju charms with Amulet
by Jorge O. Castro on 17 October 2014
In this charm workshop Marco Ceppi talks about how you can add tests to your Juju charms using Amulet, our test framework. […]
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Writing your own Juju plugins
by Jorge O. Castro on 17 October 2014
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. […]
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Using Vagrant and Juju together
by Jorge O. Castro on 17 October 2014
In this workshop we go over how to use Vagrant and Juju together for writing charms. […]
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Gettinng Started with Charm Testing
by Jorge O. Castro on 17 October 2014
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! […]
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Ubuntu with Redis Labs, Altera and IBM Power supply new NoSQL data store solution
by John Zannos on 10 October 2014
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 […]
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Zabbix joins Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme
by Ellen Arnold on 10 October 2014
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 […]
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Ubuntu OpenStack reference implementation
by Canonical on 9 October 2014
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 […]
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Juju Machine View: more control at your fingertips
by Canonical on 26 September 2014
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 […]