Canonical Enhancing JuJu Cloud Services Orchestration Tools
January 2, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth is focused on JuJu, a solution for deploying cloud services. JuJu is already mature and useful, but Ubuntu developers envision expanding on it in major ways in 2013, as evidence from mailing archives and Canonical announcements.
When it comes to cloud computing — which Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has earmarked as a major focus for Canonical in 2013 — one of the Ubuntu ecosystem’s most innovative projects is JuJu, a solution for deploying cloud services. JuJu is already mature and useful, but Ubuntu developers envision expanding on it in major ways in the new year, as evidence from mailing archives and Canonical announcements reveals…
Many of the pieces of Ubuntu’s cloud platform are based on upstream projects, like OpenStack. But JuJu is developed by Canonical directly to aid in the orchestration of cloud services. Using "charms," IT staff can deploy a variety of popular services — like MySQL, WordPress and MediaWiki — on Ubuntu-based virtual servers in the cloud with a single click or command…
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