Blog posts written by Jorge O. Castro

Jorge O. Castro
15 February 2016

Introducing Juju Resources

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The Juju team have been working hard on a new feature coming up in Juju 2.0 called “Juju Resources”, and we’re now at a point where we can share the goodness and call for bugs/feedback! As noted in the video linked below, the feature isn’t quite complete, so expect some rough edges, and for some

Jorge O. Castro
15 February 2016

Jorge O. Castro
11 February 2016

The Model of a Good Time: Juju Charmer Summit 2.0 @ cfgmgmntcamp

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Over 100 Juju enthusiasts gathered this week for our second Juju Charmer Summit in beautiful Gent, Belgium as part of the Config Management Camp. This was our first time officially participating and helping to sponsor the event, and we are proud to join the existing Ansible, Chef, CFEngine/Rudder, Foreman, Puppet, and...

Jorge O. Castro
11 February 2016

Juju GUI 2.0 Release Introduction

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Jeff Pihach gives a run through of the new design of the latest release of the Juju GUI. We are always interested to hear what you think about the GUI and for input on what features you want to see next. We can be found on IRC on freenode.net in #juju and #juju-gui, on the

Jorge O. Castro
11 February 2016

Jorge O. Castro
5 January 2016

Celebrating over 10 million Vagrant Ubuntu downloads

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Vagrant is a popular devops tool because it allows developers to easily manage virtual machines on their laptop. While this sounds easy, Vagrant allows people to finally develop on their machines using the same libraries as the operating system that’s in their server room. And since it uses virtual machines, everything...

Jorge O. Castro
5 January 2016

Jorge O. Castro
19 October 2015

Announcing the 2nd Juju Charmer Summit

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After a wonderful start in Washington DC the Juju Charmer Summit is back! This time we’ll be colocated with Config Management Camp, 1-3 February 2016, in beautiful Gent, Belgium. Join us for three full days of training, workshops, talks, and community collaboration with other automation tool communities. We’ve launch a...

Jorge O. Castro
19 October 2015

Jorge O. Castro
28 September 2015

Executive Summary from the Juju Charmer Summit 2015

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Last week members of the Juju community gathered in Washington DC for the first ever Juju Charmer Summit. The goal of the summit was to help our users better understand what’s happening in the Juju community and be able to grow their skills, and for us it was a tremendous opportunity to collect real-world feedback

Jorge O. Castro
28 September 2015

Jorge O. Castro
17 September 2015

Write Juju Charms, we’ll pick up the tab

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I am happy to announce the start of Juju Charm Developer program. It’s a simple premise, if you are interested in working on Juju charms, we will pay for your cloud time on Amazon Web Services. All we ask is that you share this work with the community. Download and install Juju Visit developer.juju.solutions and fill

Jorge O. Castro
17 September 2015

Jorge O. Castro
24 August 2015

A midsummer night’s Juju Office Hours

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Our biweekly catchup of all things happening in the land of Juju. Here’s our summary of today’s session, first off, all the URLs we discuss during the list, followed by some handy shortcuts if you want to skip around this episode. https://github.com/juju/charmstore/blob/v5-unstable/docs/bundles.md...

Jorge O. Castro
24 August 2015

Jorge O. Castro
11 August 2015

How Netflix tunes Ubuntu on EC2

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One of the nice things about having Netflix running Ubuntu is that the community can take advantage of the lessons they learn about running services at scale. I had the pleasure of attending Brendan Gregg’s Linux Profiling at Netflix talk at SCALE13x and afterwards he gave me a list of things that Netflix did to Ubuntu

Jorge O. Castro
11 August 2015

Jorge O. Castro
31 July 2015

Conducting Systems & Services: An Evening About Orchestration

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Orchestration of containers is one of the hottest topics in devops. Prior to Dockercon this year we thought it would be a great idea to bring in some of the thought leaders in this area and have a discussion of the challenges that face devops today and how solving large scale problems can help drive

Jorge O. Castro
31 July 2015

Jorge O. Castro
6 July 2015

Juju at Dockercon 2015

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Canonical sent three Juju Ecosystem developers and one Juju core developer to Dockercon 2015 in San Francisco during which we participated in a multi-company hackathon team; threw a marketing event featuring industry luminaries; and made connections with many potential charm authors and partners. We learned loads,...

Jorge O. Castro
6 July 2015

Jorge O. Castro
3 June 2015

New features in Juju 1.23

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A little over a month ago Juju 1.23 hit the prime time and brought with it a flurry of bug fixes and new features. Below are a highlight of the exciting new things Juju can do as of 1.23, or feel free to dig into the release notes for all the details. Support for Google

Jorge O. Castro
3 June 2015

Jorge O. Castro
28 January 2015

Datacentres in Containers, and Containers in Datacentres

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From months to one week: How IIJ is shipping OpenStack Clouds quicker with MAAS and Juju Technologies that enable companies to move quickly in the cloud are continuing to gain traction. When we heard that the Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) were using OpenStack, MAAS, and Juju to develop quick-to-deploy entire...

Jorge O. Castro
28 January 2015

Jorge O. Castro
17 December 2014

Using Flannel and etcd for LXC container networking

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In this demo Charles Butler shows you how to use Flannel and etcd to network LXC containers. This allows you to Juju deploy to multiple hosts instead of one machine.

Jorge O. Castro
17 December 2014

Jorge O. Castro

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