Ask Ubuntu’s about page gets a face lift
A common problem we have on Ask Ubuntu is people assuming that it’s just “another forum” and not quite grasping the concept of how the site works. Today Stack Exchange has rolled out a new About page...
View ArticleLet the election begin! Ask Ubuntu Primaries start today
After a stirring round of nominations 15 candidates have put their hat in the ring for a chance to be elected in to one of the three available new moderator spots. Over the next four days stop by the...
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Happy Steam Launch, celebrate with frags!
Blow off some Steam , now officially released for Linux, by joining this Canonical sponsored Team Fortress 2 server deployed with Juju!
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Deploying Discourse in production, lessons learned
For the past month I’ve been running the test Discourse site for Ubuntu, which has been a lot of fun. The upstream project is super responsive and working a break neck speeds to land not just new...
View ArticleCompiling Juju and the local provider
I wanted to really quickly publish what I’ve done to compile different versions of juju-core and use them in a sane fashion and outline really quickly how the new local provider works. If you haven’t...
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Deploying OpenStack with just two machines. The MaaS and Juju way.
A lot of people have been asking lately about what the minimum number of nodes are required to setup OpenStack and there seems to be a lot of buzz around setting up OpenStack with Juju and MAAS. Some...
View ArticleCompiling juju-core from source
This isn’t going to be a long winded blog post on how to compile Juju with context behind it. I just need a place to keep up to date with how it’s done. Here are my notes. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 sudo...
View ArticleForce upgrade, one of the best kept juju secret
As I continue to work on building, reviewing, and troubleshooting charms there’s still a pain point that comes from when a charm enters an error state. In charm schools we’ve discussed various ways...
View ArticleBuilding apps for the cloud
I love making things. I love making things so much I will sometimes neglect basic life-sustaining measures in order to squeeze more time in to creating things. Whether it’s creating more software or...
View Articlecharm & charm-tools 2.0
TL;DR There is a new package (and command) called charm that compliments the previous charm-tools package and provides a new way forward for managing charms and bundles in the charm store! This can be...
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