Scheduling for UDS

2013-08-21 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hear ye! Hear ye! I've started to schedule the server/cloud pieces for UDS: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1308/track/servercloud/ We have an overflow "room" available, so if you're looking to schedule a UDS session around a topic please submit it via Launchpad -- you need to propose the sprint fo

Juju Eco status for 21 August

2013-08-21 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Another week another status! Rendered version at: http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/08/21/juju-charm-ecosystem-status-for-21-august/ ## General Info: - [Pad](http://pad.ubuntu.com/7mf2jvKXNa) - [Status Board](https://trello.com/board/charmers-board/4ec1696da3f94bd2ea5b2b01) - [Juju.u.c Meeting Sit

Charm School: Using the Local/LXC Provider

2013-08-23 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, here's the video from the "How to use the Local Provider" charm school. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AiQhHIBQJk -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/charm-championship - Share your infrastructure, win a prize! -- Juju mailing list Juju@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

New categories Charm Championship and an extension

2013-08-27 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, Due to demand for more flexibility in the Charm Championship we are adding 3 new categories, Continuous Deployment, Media, and Telco! Since these are new categories it's an additional $30k in possible prizes, which brings the grand total of available prizes to $60k. http://insights.u

Reminder: Juju Docs Sprint happening now!

2013-08-30 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, We're going to bust out some docs today, here's the spreadsheet with items that need work: https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AluxMMubLozZdEVhald5bFN0U3RFbjdqNW96RWx5Snc#gid=0 Please try to join us in #juju to get things into the docs, thanks! -- Jorge C

Charm Ecosystem Status for 4 September

2013-09-06 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Here's the rendered version: http://ubuntu-discourse.org/t/were-up-all-night-to-get-juju-aka-status-report-for-4-september/1010 # Juju Charm Ecosystem Status for 4th September ## General Info: - [Pad](http://pad.ubuntu.com/7mf2jvKXNa) - [Status Board](https://trello.com/board/charmers-board/4ec

Juju Charm Eco status for 11 September

2013-09-11 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Another week, another Juju Charm Meeting! Rendered version here: http://ubuntu-discourse.org/t/im-in-the-empire-business-aka-juju-status-for-11-september/1029 ## General Info: - [Pad](http://pad.ubuntu.com/7mf2jvKXNa) - [Status Board](https://trello.com/board/charmers-board/4ec1696da3f94bd2ea5b

Please self-document as you help each other

2013-09-20 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, We're seeing increased activity in the IRC channels and on the Juju tag on askubuntu.com. Just some tips: Self documenting is encouraged, it builds a library of common FAQs that we can reuse, and more importantly seeds the site with things users might be searching for, here's an exam

Charm School today, Chef/Puppet integration

2013-09-20 Thread Jorge O. Castro
It's finally here, our Charm School outlining some integration tips and techniques for reusing your Chef cookbooks and Puppet recipes in Juju. 1700UTC (that's 1pm EDT) in #juju on Freenode. The school itself will be broadcast via ubuntuonair.com at that time. If you want to /join in/ on the schoo

Postponed! Re: Charm School Chef/Puppet integration

2013-09-20 Thread Jorge O. Castro
21 AM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > It's finally here, our Charm School outlining some integration tips > and techniques for reusing your Chef cookbooks and Puppet recipes in > Juju. > > 1700UTC (that's 1pm EDT) in #juju on Freenode. The school itself will > be broadcast

Charm Quality Ratings updates

2013-09-25 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, I'd like to revise the charm quality stuff a bit, mostly the ~charmers have captured that we would like to encourage folks to document the interfaces in their charms and I'd like to add that as a charm quality bullet item. In the past that just meant getting a +1 from some charmers a

Charm Ecosystem Status for 25 September

2013-09-25 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Rendered version: http://ubuntu-discourse.org/t/charm-tools-hits-1-0-aka-charm-ecosystem-status-for-25-september/1057 # Juju Charm Ecosystem Status for 25 September ## General Info: - [Pad](http://pad.ubuntu.com/7mf2jvKXNa) - [Status Board](https://trello.com/board/charmers-board/4ec1696da3f94b

Charm Ecosystem update for 2 October

2013-10-02 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Rendered version here: http://ubuntu-discourse.org/t/goodbye-walter-aka-juju-status-for-2-october/1073 ## General Info - [Pad](http://pad.ubuntu.com/7mf2jvKXNa) - [Status Board](https://trello.com/board/charmers-board/4ec1696da3f94bd2ea5b2b01) - [Juju.u.c Meeting Site](https://juju.ubuntu.com/com

Re: [ANN] amulet 1.0.0 has been released

2013-10-04 Thread Jorge O. Castro
And we are running a charm today dedicated to Amulet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwS4MqEMKs On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Marco Ceppi wrote: > It's been several weeks since I first announced amulet[0] and I'm happy to > release the "1.0" milestone of amulet. A lot has been added since t

Juju Status for 9 October.

2013-10-09 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Rendered version: http://ubuntu-discourse.org/t/manual-null-provider-is-here-aka-juju-status-for-9-october/1095 ## General Info - [Pad](http://pad.ubuntu.com/7mf2jvKXNa) - [Status Board](https://trello.com/board/charmers-board/4ec1696da3f94bd2ea5b2b01) - [Juju.u.c Meeting Site](https://juju.ubunt

How do I launch and m1.medium on AWS?

2013-10-09 Thread Jorge O. Castro
I can't seem to figure out the right combination of constraints to get an m1.medium. juju bootstrap --constraints "cpu-cores=2 mem=3.75" launches c1.mediums and not m1's. -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/charm-championship - Share your infrastructure, win a prize! -- Juju

Charm queue needs attention

2013-10-11 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, We've got a ton of improvements to charms in the queue. We've got Sensu (new!) and a fresh logstash stack thanks to Paul C, and a nice rewrite of the graphite charm from Canonical IS. With the 13.10 release pending I know everyone's been hammered, but we're starting to get buried, so

Manual provisioning is here, doc reviews wanted

2013-10-11 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, With manual provisioning we can finally deploy to any Ubuntu box that has an ssh server. This is a big milestone, people can now deploy to boxes in a closet, or perhaps a handful of boxes without having to worry about the complexities of MAAS/OpenStack. Andrew Wilkins has landed a fir

Less than 2 weeks remaining in the Charm Championship

2013-10-11 Thread Jorge O. Castro
We're inside of two weeks now. We've made a video on how to submit a pull request for the contest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6wTtWDyXsc And here are the charm submission docs if your bundle needs to use something that isn't in the official charm store: https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/authors-c

Charm Championship deadline looming

2013-10-21 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Alright everyone, we're getting close to 22 October, just two more full days of hacking left in the Charm Championship. We've made a video on how to submit a pull request for the contest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6wTtWDyXsc And here are the charm submission docs if your bundle needs to us

Re: Charm Championship deadline looming

2013-10-22 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Also a quick reminder that we'll wait for the full UTC day to end and we're not going to be too picky if you don't get it in exactly on time, but at this point you should consider doing your pull requests as soon as possible! On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Jorge O. Castro w

Re: Inactive charmers and charmers

2013-10-24 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > Also it isn't clear at all what you mean by "I've removed it". Did you > remove inactive-charmers from charmers or did you remove the team > altogether? He removed inactive-charmers from charmers. However in hindsight I think what this reall

Re: Too late? - Charm Championship

2013-10-25 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:19 PM, joshbixler wrote: > I thought last day was October 31. Just put it in. Am I too late? > Please submit it anyway, and I'll have the judges look at it and we'll go from there, thanks! -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/

What archive do we mention in the docs?

2013-10-29 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, I know we keep ppa:juju/stable in sync with the Ubuntu Cloud Archive (UCA). However in the spirit of keeping everything in one place does it make sense to point people to the UCA archive itself instead? MAAS and OpenStack are in there and we put Juju in there to cut down on confusio

Does the local provider require a HWE stack for 12.04?

2013-10-29 Thread Jorge O. Castro
https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/config-local.html When we were creating this page we were talking on how we would prefer LXC from the HWE stack while people are using Juju on 12.04. However Scott Moser pointed out to me[1] that Juju works on the vanilla 12.04 stack and that we should consider what p

Config Management Camp, 2-3 Feb, Gent, Belgium

2013-10-29 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, We've been invited to join Ansible, Chef, Puppet, CFEngine, Rudder, and SaltStack at the Config Management Camp: http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ This event takes place _after_ FOSDEM in Gent, Belgium. Not only are we participating, but we've secured a track for us to discuss all things Juju.

Charm Ecosystem Status for 30 October

2013-10-30 Thread Jorge O. Castro
A very spooky charm status!! ## General Info - [Pad](http://pad.ubuntu.com/7mf2jvKXNa) - [Status Board](https://trello.com/board/charmers-board/4ec1696da3f94bd2ea5b2b01) - [Juju.u.c Meeting Site](https://juju.ubuntu.com/community/weekly-charm-meeting/) - [Video of Meeting](http://youtu.be/HnNwRUA

Re: Charm Ecosystem Status for 30 October

2013-10-31 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:00 AM, John Arbash Meinel wrote: > For what its worth, Mark S really didn't prefer the term SSH provider. > The favorite was to call it Manual Registration. I think what we > converged on was to have an environment stanza with *no* provider > entry, and then use the term

Re: [ALPHA but useful] juju quickstart plugin v 0.2

2013-11-01 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Gary Poster wrote: > Assuming you have Juju (juju-core) installed, now you can run ``juju > quickstart --help`` and learn what features are available today. Hey so this is really great. I've started filing bugs here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-quickstart/+bug

Troubleshooting the local provider docs now available.

2013-11-04 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, We've started to collect best practice for troubleshooting the local provider: https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/troubleshooting-local.html These docs are NOT yet indexed on the main table of contents on the side, I wanted to give you guys a couple of days to toss in any techniques you m

vUDS Session Schedule available (draft)

2013-11-06 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, thanks for putting in your blueprints on time, here's what the schedule currently looks like: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1311/track/servercloud/ There are a few sessions that won't fit, so we're going to have to trim some fat. If you can combine a session or feel that another topic

Juju Updates for 13 November

2013-11-13 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Due to some technical issues I wasn't able to attend the video portion, here are the notes: # Juju Charm Ecosystem Status for the 13th November ## General Info - [Pad](http://pad.ubuntu.com/7mf2jvKXNa) - [Status Board](https://trello.com/board/charmers-board/4ec1696da3f94bd2ea5b2b01) - [Juju.u.

Config Management Camp CFPs

2013-11-14 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, We got some great feedback from people who wanted to speak. Please go ahead and start filing CFPs for the talks you want to give: http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ The deadline is 15 December. -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/ - Automate your Cloud Infrastructure -- Ju

User questions now part of the review queue

2013-11-14 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Thanks to Jonathan Sackett we've added Ask Ubuntu questions to the review queue: http://manage.jujucharms.com/tools/review-queue Like code reviews, if you want to make a direct improvement to our user experience please make hitting the review queue a part of your daily routine. This is something

Winners of the Juju Charm Championship

2013-11-15 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, The judges have deliberated and have found the following entries from the charm championship as our winners with varying prize money: Paul Czar, Peter Klipfil, David Olf, and James Briggs. We'll work on bringing these bundles into the charm store over the next few weeks. As an addit

Charmers meetings changes

2013-11-18 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, What used to be a team meeting for ~charmers has been turning more into a weekly podcast about Juju. While this is great we've decided to kind of "split" the meeting: - We'll be having the normal team meeting on IRC on Fridays. - The weekly summary of what's going on will still be po

UDS Cloud and Server sessions

2013-11-18 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Just a quick reminder to folks that this week is UDS, here is the cloud and server track: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1311/track/servercloud/ Everyone is encouraged to participate, hope to see you there! Here's how to get involved: http://uds.ubuntu.com/getinvolved/join-a-session/ -- Jorge Cas

Juju Charm Quality Guidelines -> Charm Features

2013-11-20 Thread Jorge O. Castro
We just had a session on improving what used to be called the Charm Quality Guidelines, which really are charm features, so we went bullet by bullet and reworded a bunch of them to make sense, and consolidated the sections, here's what we came up with: Proposed Bullets: Data Handling: Handles th

What's coming for Juju in 14.04

2013-11-20 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, Though we have UDS sessions on Juju and charms all week I think it's appropriate to share this one video as it covers the roadmap for Juju for this cycle. You can fast forward to 2:00 minute to get right to it: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjzImjEinB8&feature=share&t=2m -- Jor

New juju-quickstart available

2013-11-22 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, Francesco Banconi worked all the way up to the end of his day to get this release out to you, so I'm doing this release announcement on his behalf. Juju Quickstart version 0.4.2 is out and published to the PPA. This is a beta release! What is juju quickstart? It's a Juju plugin that

Charm School schedule

2013-11-25 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, We have bashed out the schedule for the next cycle of charm schools. The idea is to do 2 charm schools per month over preselected topics, with the option of people requesting them as well. For this calendar year here are the next two charm schools: 6 December - TDD charms written in

Reminder: Charm Schools for your team and organization

2013-11-25 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Just a quick reminder to those of you using Juju on the list -- the charmers team can and does do virtual charm schools for your team! We usually do this over Google Hangouts (but can do any medium you prefer) and we walk you through whatever part of Juju you need help with. So if you're using Ju

Bundles documentation (beta) has landed

2013-11-27 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, Juju bundles (and quickstart) are in beta, but we wanted to get the docs in shape so people can start looking at how to make bundles. So what's a bundle? A bundle is a set of charms in one easy to deploy file. If charms are the packages of services, bundles are our metapackages. They

Re: Request for Mentoring

2013-12-02 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hey no worries, take your time, finding a good work/contribution balance is important! On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Ankit Javalkar wrote: > Though I have been reading up a lot about Juju on it's wiki as well as > elsewhere. I hope to jump back in as soon as I can. -- Jorge Castro Canonica

Vagrant boxes with Juju now available

2013-12-03 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, Ben's been working on providing Vagrant images with Juju built in: http://blog.utlemming.org/2013/12/beta-cross-platform-juju-development.html This is particularly important for those of you on Windows or OSX we share the /vagrant directory, allowing you to quickly hack on your char

Re: Vagrant boxes with Juju now available

2013-12-03 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > Please feel free to send feedback to this list! Forgot to link to the docs for this feature! https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/config-vagrant.html -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/ - Automate your Cloud Infrastruct

Let's talk about bundle policy

2013-12-05 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, If you haven't noticed, the bundles feature is in beta. Bundles are a collection of charms that can be deployed in one go. So instead of deploying individual charms and relating them, you can just share entire environment's worth of charms and relationships and share those with people

Charm Ecosystem Status for 6 December

2013-12-06 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Enjoy! ## General Info - [Pad](http://pad.ubuntu.com/7mf2jvKXNa) ## Highlights - 1.16.4 released, GUI .14, quickstart .5 - Jorge: everything cool is in beta, January will be when things will be interesting; manual provisioning, bundles, quickstart, etc. ## Charm Tools - CharmTools 1.2 with Am

Policy proposal: All new charms must include tests.

2013-12-12 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, - We have testing infrastructure coming online in January, and a suite of tools to make it easier for charm authors to write tests. - We have an Ubuntu LTS release in April. - We have Juju Core 2.0 on the horizon. I think it's about time we made "All new charms must include tests" po

Auditing the Charm Store

2013-12-12 Thread Jorge O. Castro
If you've been seeing us in IRC or the changelogs, you might have noticed that we have started The Great Charm Audit of 2014. We're going to rereview every charm in the store prior to promoting them (if they pass muster) to trusty. This means everything from the README file, to the metadata, to the

Re: Policy proposal: All new charms must include tests.

2013-12-13 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Vincent JOBARD wrote: >> This way, we let people get charms in that work-for-them-and-others, but >> the limitations are reflected in our rating of the charm. > > > Well with only the 2 stars rating, users will not know that the charm is > correctly tested. I mean

Welcome back!

2014-01-03 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Welcome to the New Year everyone! I've just started back up and I'm already lost at where I was before I left, so I thought a quick mail out to the list to sync up with folks coming back from holiday would be a good idea: - The Great Charm Audit will continue: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ju

Adding two more charm feature bullets

2014-01-07 Thread Jorge O. Castro
I would like to add two more things as "check marks" that charms can check off as features: https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/authors-charm-quality.html The two would be listed under Scalable: Monitoring - has relationships to allow the service to be monitored by any existing monitoring charm Remote

MongoDB sharing bundle testing wanted

2014-01-10 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone! As I get through the charm audit I plan on publishing bundles of services since they might be useful for other people. One of the great examples of Juju usage is our mongodb charm: http://blog.xtremeghost.com/2012/11/lets-shard-something.html But I think that's too much work, so I c

Charm School: Using Juju Bundles, 7 February

2014-01-13 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, For the next Charm School we're going to spend some time talking about "bundles". Bundles are to charms as metapackages are to packages, they allow you to deploy an entire stack of charms all at once, with relations and everything. As such they are very powerful and allow you to deplo

Juju command cheat sheet

2014-01-30 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, I was giving a class to some people and while they knew how to use Juju I realized they didn't know some commands. So I check out the docs and the CLI help, and while they are thorough, there isn't a "I need to learn Juju in 5 minutes" cheat sheet. So I made one: http://pad.ubuntu.c

Re: Juju command cheat sheet

2014-01-31 Thread Jorge O. Castro
gt;> Abs, >> Sebas. >> >> (11) 8572 - 4372 >> >> >> 2014-01-30 Jorge O. Castro >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I was giving a class to some people and while they knew how to use >>> Juju I realized they didn't know some co

Re: Juju command cheat sheet

2014-02-03 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi Sebastian, Done! - https://github.com/juju/cheatsheet PRs and ideas welcome! On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Sebastian wrote: > Great! thanks for that! do you have a GitHub account, we cloud put that in a > .md file so every one can send new things, etc... -- Juju mailing list Juju@list

PSA: Charm tests hitting the review queue

2014-02-03 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hello everyone, The review queue is blowing up with incoming tests: http://manage.jujucharms.com/tools/review-queue We are currently about 10% through the charm audit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia4W3c4fbL-dGs4SVBJMGRIdnlSMWhzSmo3WE1mZ1E&usp=sharing If you are interested in l

Juju Run now in development release.

2014-02-04 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Those of you tracking the dev 1.17.2 release, we now have a new tool, `juju run`.Juju run allows us to run commands on instances. So you can do: `juju run "uname -a" --all` and have that command execute on the remote systems, and then juju will report back stdout, stderr, and the return code. Som

Re: Juju Run now in development release.

2014-02-04 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Also forgot to mention, on the remote instances you can do `juju-run` and this will run commands in a _hook context_, that should make it handy for those of you writing charms. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > ... and so on. This feature will be in the 1.18 sta

Re: MySQL charm: hook failed: "config-changed"

2014-02-05 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:10 PM, David Cheney wrote: > Looks like an apparmor issue to me. We've had this problem in the past with MySQL/apparmor/local provider: https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1236994 https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1247299 -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd.

Juju.is redirect now in place.

2014-02-05 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Thanks to Maarten Ectors and Darren Spiteri we now have http://juju.is as a convenient and rememberable way to search charms. It takes anything after the / and passes it to jujucharms.com... so http://juju.is/hadoop http://juju.is/rails http://juju.is/mysql and so on. -- Jorge Castro Canonical

"Developing and Ubuntu Juju Charm" blog post

2014-02-13 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Some feedback from Josh Strobl: http://joshstrobl.blogspot.com/2014/02/developing-ubuntu-juju-charm.html I've left some comments: https://plus.google.com/+JoshuaStrobl/posts/UEXzk4THYJs Some things I'd like to propose: 1. Is it time to "promote" the Vagrant box to a more visible place on juju.u.

Juju Plugins

2014-02-13 Thread Jorge O. Castro
If you didn't know, Juju has support for plugins. So far these have been scattered over junk branches and pastebins so we're going to organize them so people have one place to find them: https://github.com/juju/plugins We're not going to package them (yet) so we can put them in one place and see

Preparing for bundles

2014-02-25 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, If you haven't noticed, we can't stop talking about bundles and how great they are. There's been a bunch of work to make it trivially easy to deploy an entire set of charms in one go. So today you can export an entire deployment from the GUI, mail it to a friend, and they can just dra

Charm School: Using Bundles, 1400 EST, 14 March

2014-03-04 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, since bundles are coming we'll be having a charm school on how to use bundles, next Friday, 14 March at 1400 EST. We will cover: What is a bundle? Making my own bundles Sharing my bundles with the community Modifying existing bundles And in general take a tour of available bundles to

Where should deployment instructions for bundles exist?

2014-03-05 Thread Jorge O. Castro
I am working on submitting a mediawiki bundle: https://jujucharms.com/sidebar/search/bundle/~jorge/mediawiki-simple/5/mediawiki-simple/?text=mediawiki-simple In the GUI we provide a tab called Deploy which autogenerates deployment instructions. I love this because after editing individual deploy i

Re: Charm School: Using Bundles, 1400 EST, 14 March

2014-03-14 Thread Jorge O. Castro
r juju-quickstart bundle:~charmers/mongodb/cluster Francesco has a branch in review to clean up those URLs a bit, so in the future it will be `juju-quickstart bundle:hadoop/cluster` for example. Happy deploying! On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > Hi everyone, since bundles a

Charm Schools for the next few months

2014-03-18 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, I've added the next Charm Schools to the Ubuntu Calendar: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/ Here are the times/dates with calendar links, all lessons will be on Google Hangouts/ubuntuonair.com and #juju on Freenode: 4 April, 1500EST, Using and Making Juju Plugins: http://goo.gl/lN7

Copying charms around by hand? Be careful!

2014-03-25 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Matt and I got bit by this today and since it's a simple thing to forget I thought I'd let the list know: Those of you deploying on proxied off machines that don't have access to the charm store and are copying charms onto internal machines, please remember that scp will follow links, not copy the

Best practices for "fat" charms

2014-04-01 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, Matt Bruzek and I have been doing some charm testing on a machine that does not have general access to the internet. So charms that pull from PPAs, github, etc. do not work. We've been able to "fatten" the charms by doing things like creating a /files directory in the charm itself an

Reminder: Charm School on Juju Plugins, this Friday 4 April

2014-04-02 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Juju Plugins are a nice way to add your own functionality to Juju. Marco's written some and he's going to show you how to write and use your own plugins. If you are using Juju regularly then I highly recommend this session as 4 April, 3PM Eastern, 12PM Pacific #juju on Freenode ubuntuonair.com wi

Setting up a Private Cloud using Simplestreams

2014-04-04 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, Fresh from Nick Veitch's fingertips: https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/howto-privatecloud.html Feedback and pull requests welcome! -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/ - Automate your Cloud Infrastructure -- Juju mailing list Juju@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: Reminder: Charm School on Juju Plugins, this Friday 4 April

2014-04-04 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Here's the video! Marco wrote a little `juju log` plugin, a nice bandaid for logging from the local provider! http://youtu.be/e96yhMcnHLc -- Juju mailing list Juju@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju

New Juju Plugin: git-deploy

2014-04-07 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone: Francesco Banconi has whipped up a new plugin: https://github.com/frankban/juju-git-deploy It's designed to deploy charms from github. Testing and feedback wanted! -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/ - Automate your Cloud Infrastructure -- Juju mailing list

Changed: Juju/OSX Workflow, 1500EST 18 April

2014-04-11 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, Due to some unforseen issues with the Vagrant boxes I'm going to punt today's charm school to next week. Sorry about this! Screencast: http://ubuntuonair.com 1500EST, 18 April, in #juju -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/ - Automate your Cloud Infrastructure --

Re: Better way to scale services horizontally

2014-05-01 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Sebastian wrote: > Some help? I'm almost there to finish the charm :) Hi Sebas! Nice work! The easiest way to get a review is to follow these steps: https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/authors-charm-store.html#submitting-a-new-charm In this case just start at step nine

Juju is here for POWER8

2014-05-01 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, If you missed the announcements we can now deploy to IBM's POWER8 architecture. I blogged about how we participated, including a video of our live demo which we just did this week deploying Hadoop, SugarCRM/MariaDB, and Websphere Liberty on a POWER8 box. http://www.jorgecastro.org/20

Charm School: Vagrant Workflow (Linux, OSX, Windows)

2014-05-13 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, Now that the Vagrant boxes are sorted we're going to have a charm school this Friday outlining a Vagrant workflow. 1900 UTC / 1500 EDT / 1200 (Noon PDT) http://ubuntuonair.com #juju on Freenode Setting this up prior to the course will help you: https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/config-va

Charm Schools: Juju Troubleshooting

2014-05-13 Thread Jorge O. Castro
I wanted to announce this early as there is a bunch of expertise out there blossoming on how to Troubleshoot Juju, so we're going to do two charm schools over 2 weeks to gather all of this information. I wanted to get this announcement out early. June 6: Troubleshooting I June 13: Troubleshooting

New documentation page: Working with Units

2014-05-14 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, I've started to consolidate commands that deal with specific units in a new page on the docs. This will include juju ssh/scp and juju run. It's freshly committed so it hasn't generated on the doc site yet, but you can check it out here: https://github.com/juju/docs/blob/master/src/en

Ubuntu Vagrant boxes with Juju

2014-05-15 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, For those of you using Vagrant we are now listing our Juju Vagrant boxes here: https://vagrantcloud.com/ubuntu/precise64-juju https://vagrantcloud.com/ubuntu/precise32-juju For those of you on OSX and Windows this is a slick way to get Juju with the GUI out of the box deploying to c

Re: Ubuntu Vagrant boxes with Juju

2014-05-15 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Sebastian wrote: > Nice, but what about the Trusty ones? Ben is giving them a shot right now; and we'll post when they're ready. Non-Juju trusty boxes are here: https://vagrantcloud.com/ubuntu/trusty64 -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/ - Au

Clarifying cloud-specific charms in the store

2014-05-16 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, As part of the review process for the backup charm this came up: https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+bug/1259630 Policy states: "Should not use anything infrastructure-provider specific (i.e. querying EC2 metadata service)" Note that this is a should, not a must, in the same way tha

Re: Ubuntu Vagrant boxes with Juju

2014-05-16 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Trusty images are now available, testing on these is greatly appreciated: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/trusty/current/ On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Sebastian wrote: > Can Ben share your Vagrantfile code to see if I can help too :) As per the IRC discussion Chuck will push the work

Submitting charms to trusty

2014-05-19 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, While Marco is putting the finishing touches on the existing charms to Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty), those of you submitting new charms can submit your charm to both 12.04(precise) as well as 14.04. Updated instructions here: https://github.com/juju/docs/blob/master/src/en/authors-charm-sto

Announcing the Ubuntu Online Summit

2014-05-30 Thread Jorge O. Castro
In a two weeks we're going to have our first Ubuntu Online Summit, which will be a mix of past vUDS, Open Week, Developer Week and User Days. These sessions take place in Google Hangouts. http://uds.ubuntu.com/ http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1406/ First of all, there will be a new "Cloud DevOps" tr

Re: Ubuntu Online Summit

2014-06-02 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 8:22 AM, brian mullan wrote: > Would there be a possibility of doing a session on Juju in Local Provider > mode using LXC. Great idea! I've scheduled it: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1406/meeting/22247/juju-with-lxc-containers-for-local-development/ Here's one from last

Re: Development Policy for OpenStack Charms

2014-06-02 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:34 AM, James Page wrote: > The intent is to ensure that the charms in the charm store remain > stable at all times and that new features are introduced on a regular > cadence, rather than ad-hoc, after appropriate testing has been completed. The Charm Stable Update Proces

Reminder: Troubleshooting Juju

2014-06-04 Thread Jorge O. Castro
This Friday we're having a hangout/screencast on how to troubleshoot Juju. If you want to join the broadcast just let me know, and as usual we'll be taking questions from the audience and recording the session. Charm Schools: Juju Troubleshooting I 19:00 UTC Jun 06 2014 #juju on Freenode / ubuntuo

Re: Collection of Bundles?

2014-06-05 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Matthew Williams wrote: > I'm sure this has been discussed before - but I can't remember what the > outcome was. James is correct, bundles are published in the same store as charms, the procedure is a bit different: https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/charms-bundles.html

Re: Confirmation for Juju Charm School: LXC Troubleshooting?

2014-06-20 Thread Jorge O. Castro
We ended up having 2 1 hour troubleshooting sessions and an LXC/Juju sessions last week during UOS and most of the questions involved troubleshooting, so I'd like to move on to other topics. I was in progress of posting another message where we can plan out the next ~3 months of charm schools. For

Charm School call for Topics

2014-06-27 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, With the sessions we had during Ubuntu Online Summit we were able to get some good Charm Schools in, see http://juju.ubuntu.com/videos Since we have now done Troubleshooting I and II and debugging the local provider I'd like to open the floor for charm schools the community would lik

[Review Queue] User questions and bug triage

2014-08-25 Thread Jorge O. Castro
## User Questions I've reviewed and resolved a bunch of questions tagged with juju: http://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/juju Out of those here are some I have triaged and could use answers: - http://askubuntu.com/questions/514728/cant-deploy-charms-due-to-missing-metadata-files - http://askub

Re: Application for Juju Charmer Status

2014-08-25 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:36 PM, José Antonio Rey wrote: > So I believe it's the time. After a while, I'm now applying for charmer > status. I'm not a voting charmer but just wanted to +1 your application and your contributions so far! -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/ - A

Call for Charm School topics

2014-09-05 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hello everyone, Now that conference season is winding down we can start to spin up on Charm workshops. Antonio and I sat down and bashed out some ideas for charm school topics. I've added that list below and also penciled in an instructor. Getting Started (again!)- jorge/marco Getting started wit

Bitlbee charm needs a maintainer

2014-09-07 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, The bitlbee charm has been orphaned, if you're interested in helping maintain this then please speak up, otherwise we'll remove it from the user-facing charm UIs. http://manage.jujucharms.com/charms/precise/bitlbee -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/ - Automate y

Online Charm Workshops for the next cycle

2014-09-18 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, I've scheduled everything out into the holidays, taking into account conferences, holidays, and other events. All sessions are at 1500 EST / 1900 UTC and will be recorded and published on the Juju website, we'll also send reminders to this list and we'll host it on ubuntuonair.com: O

Juju Ecosystem Team Sprint Report

2014-09-19 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Greetings folks, The Juju Ecosystem team at Canonical (joined remotely by community members) recently had a developer sprint in beautiful Dillon, Colorado to Get Things Done(™). If you prefer a formatted version of this with pictures see here: http://www.jorgecastro.org/2014/09/19/juju-ecosystem-

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