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Charming 2.0 – Now with 100% more awesome

by Charles Butler on 22 October 2015

Editors Note: This post is one of many in a series covering the newpatterns in charming. This first post will be information heavy andcover a walkthrough of the techonologies at play. Video content andadditional tutorials will follow.It’s been an exciting couple of months for the Juju Charmers. If you’ve beenfollowing the Juju mailing lis […]

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Juju Big Data at Strata+Hadoop World

by Andrew McLeod on 19 October 2015

Earlier this month, myself and Kevin — another member of the Juju big data team — attended the 2015 Strata+Hadoop World conference in New York City. As my first big data conference since joining the Juju team, it was an impressive experience, both running the competition pod at our Canonical booth and hearing speakers go […]

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Announcing the 2nd Juju Charmer Summit

by Jorge O. Castro on 19 October 2015

After a wonderful start in Washington DC the Juju Charmer Summit is back! This time we’ll be colocated with Config Management Camp, 1-3 February 2016, in beautiful Gent, Belgium. Join us for three full days of training, workshops, talks, and community collaboration with other automation tool communities. We’ve launch a little mini-site wi […]

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Ubuntu with IBM Power Systems LC models for big data

by John Dolen on 8 October 2015

Juju makes it easy to model and deploy Spark and other analytics solution bundles IBM has extended its range of Ubuntu supported systems with today’s announcement of the Power Systems LC models. Canonical, along with fellow OpenPOWER Foundation members – Mellanox, NVIDIA, Tyan and Wistron, collaborated with IBM on the development of these […]

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Get a Big Data Cloud Fast and Easy

by Canonical on 6 October 2015

If you work with big data, then you know there’s an expanding ecosystem of software to process and analyze, and monitor and manipulate your data. You probably don’t have time to manually install, configure, connect, and test all of the different software and services available. But what if someone else set it all up for […]

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Executive Summary from the Juju Charmer Summit 2015

by Jorge O. Castro on 28 September 2015

Last week members of the Juju community gathered in Washington DC for the first ever Juju Charmer Summit. The goal of the summit was to help our users better understand what’s happening in the Juju community and be able to grow their skills, and for us it was a tremendous opportunity to collect real-world feedback […]

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Realtime Syslog Analytics

by Kevin W Monroe on 24 September 2015

As Cory alluded to in our intro post, we’re excited to talk about a bundle that demonstrates an end-to-end Big Data solution: Realtime Syslog Analytics. Working with log data is a common Big Data task, and in this post, we’ll show how this bundle enables you to ingest, process, and visualize syslog data. This gives […]

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PC Power Control with a Raspberry Pi and MAAS

by Canonical on 23 September 2015

I recently decided to setup a small cluster of computers at home to be managed by Juju and MAAS. The computers are in the attic which meant that finger based power management was going to quickly lose its appeal. Many of my friends and colleagues have enviable home computer setups, with power control being done […]

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Why I like Juju….

by Canonical on 21 September 2015

  A long time ago Canonical (of Ubuntu fame) got in touch with us and asked if we’d like to bring Saiku to their new Juju platform. We were sceptical and semi agreed but ended up getting diverted to other stuff and never got started. Then a few months ago Canonical (still of Ubuntu fame) […]