Feature Presentation: Juju
Mark writes: “I remember 10 years ago when I discovered installing Mailman using apt-get install mailman. A working mail server in one line. Everything just worked. These days I’m working on a project called Juju that aims to provide an even more powerful tool for deploying and configuring software services. Now you can just type juju deploy casandra, and get a working Casandra server in the cloud; no need to buy a machine, install and configure the OS, or know how to install and configure Casandra. And if you want to connect services together (such as a working and High Availability WordPress instance, a working memcache server, and a working MySQL with a read-only slave) — you can do all of that in just a few lines from the command line. And you can deploy that same set of services to a local testing environment using Linux containers, your own Open Stack cloud, or to cloud services like HP, Amazon, or even Microsoft Azure. This talk will be all about Juju, what it does, how it works, and how it can change the way developers and system administrators work together.”
Mark Ramm is Director of Engineering at Canonical — the people who brought you Ubuntu — and for the last year has been working on a new tool called Juju that makes it easy to deploy and connect software services in the cloud. He is the BDFL emeritus of TurboGears (a Python web development framework), and one of the creators of the Allura project that now powers all the software development tools on Sourceforge.com, and is incubating with the Apache Foundation.
Steam Machine
Not to be confused with carpet cleaners, the Steam Machine is a line of gaming consoles and specifications using SteamOS (a Linux-based OS). Unfortunately the Steam Machine isn’t due to ship until 2014. What if you’re impatient and want to play with Steam now? Jorge Castro will demonstrate how to build a dedicated Steam-compatible machine.
And we’ll also have our normal MUG meeting features: Jobs Looking For People, People Looking for Jobs, news and events, and much much more.