Installing Juju a service orchestration framework

Up to now in this chapter, we have learned about virtualization and OpenStack for deploying and managing virtual servers. Now, it's time to look at a service-modeling tool, Juju. Juju is a service-modeling tool for Ubuntu. Connect it to any cloud service, model your application, and press deploy—done. Juju takes care of lower-level configuration, deployments, and scaling, and even monitors your services.

Juju is an open source tool that offers a GUI and command-line interface for modeling your service. Applications are generally deployed as collections of multiple services. For example, to deploy WordPress, you need a web server, a database system, and perhaps a load balancer. Service modeling refers ...

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