Blog posts written by Jorge O. Castro

Jorge O. Castro
8 December 2014

Charm Workshop: Writing Charms for Restrictive Networks

Videos Cloud and server

In an ideal world your systems can reach any internet resource for whatever they need for deployment. However the real world is different, and many production networks have proxies or other restricted network policies that make writing charms challenging. In this charm school Matt Bruzek highlights some of the methods...

Jorge O. Castro
8 December 2014

Jorge O. Castro
21 November 2014

Charm Workshop: Debugging Juju Hooks

Videos Cloud and server

In this charm school Charles Butler and Corey Johns go over the traditional way to debug Juju charm hooks, and Corey introduces his new Juju plugin, DHX, designed to make debugging hooks much easier. Corey’s debug hook script, DHX, is available here: https://github.com/juju/plugins

Jorge O. Castro
21 November 2014

Jorge O. Castro
18 November 2014

Charm Workshop: Your first five minutes of charming

Videos Cloud and server

As part of the Ubuntu Online Summit, Charles Butler and the rest of the crew go over some things you might want to consider during your first five minutes of charming.

Jorge O. Castro
18 November 2014

Jorge O. Castro
24 October 2014

Getting Started with Juju Relations

Videos Cloud and server

Relations are a very important part of what Juju does. Automating installation is a solved problem, but the ability for Juju Charms to connect services together via relationships is one of our most powerful features.

Jorge O. Castro
24 October 2014

Jorge O. Castro
18 October 2014

Charm Workshop: Charm Testing

Videos Cloud and server

What is bundle tester? How to set up and run, how to write tests, and how Canonical automates the running of these tests for you.

Jorge O. Castro
18 October 2014

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Getting Started with Juju

Videos Cloud and server

In this session we go over what Juju is, and how to get started using it.

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Deploying workloads on IBM POWER8 Systems

Videos Cloud and server

In this demo we show how you can use Juju to deploy workloads onto IBM POWER8 systems.

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

What is Juju? (Introduction video)

Videos Cloud and server

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

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Automating Orchestration in the Cloud with Ubuntu Juju

Videos Cloud and server

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

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Using the Local (LXC) Provider with Juju

Videos Cloud and server

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.

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Using and creating Juju Charm Bundles

Videos Cloud and server

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.

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Adding tests to your Juju charms with Amulet

Videos Cloud and server

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

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Writing your own Juju plugins

Videos Cloud and server

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.

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Using Vagrant and Juju together

Videos Cloud and server

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

Jorge O. Castro
17 October 2014

Jorge O. Castro

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