Ubuntu Juju Cloud Orchestration Launches on Azure
September 19, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
Ubuntu Juju is making its debut on the Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Azure public cloud platform. According to an Azure blog post by Venkat Gattamneni, Azure is now fully supported by Juju as part of Microsoft’s efforts to commit to being an open and interoperable cloud platform.
That means Ubuntu users now can use Juju to design and deploy application infrastructure simply and easily onto Azure—something that should give Azure a leg up over (or at least bring it in line with) competing cloud platforms. For Ubuntu and the various developers and partners who deal within the open source Linux platform, this expands their footprint to the growing world of Azure, which is arguably in the second or third place in terms of cloud platforms (depending on who you ask or which research you read)…
Gattamneni noted in his blog that the latest Ubuntu Certified images for all "supported Ubuntu releases" are now available on Azure. Developers will be able to use weave their Juju magic to deploy more than 100 Juju Charms (a.k.a., Juju services) onto Azure Ubuntu instances…
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