Ubuntu Juju Delivers Cloud Server Magic | Linux Today

Ubuntu Juju Delivers Cloud Server Magic

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 11, 2011

“Juju works as an orchestration technology. Baker explained
that, for example, with a blog deployment, there are a number of
components including a web server, blog application and then a
database on the backend. Each of those components are traditionally
installed individually and then configured on a server. As
administrators want to add capacity, by adding another server or
bringing up a cloud instance, the admin would then go through the
whole process again.

“What Juju allows you to do is create a Juju bootstrap
environment,” Baker said. “There are a number of configuration file
definitions that we call ‘charms’.”


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