Configurate your juju’s

I was reading Jorge’s Stomp Box earlier today, and somebody mentioned how it would be an even better trick if it were easier to configure juju quickly.

Ask and ye shall receive. I hacked a new sub-command into the experimental ‘juju-jitsu’ wrapper. I’ll let the scrape from my terminal do the talking. You can get it with:


bzr branch lp:juju-jitsu

And try it with


juju-jitsu/wrap-juju
juju setup-environment

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Precise is coming

Almost 2 years ago, I stepped out of my comfort zone at a “SaaS” web company and joined the Canonical Server Team to work on Ubuntu Server development full time.

I didn’t really grasp what I had walked into, joining the team right after an LTS release. The 10.04 release was a monumental effort that spanned the previous 2 years. Call me a nerd if you want, but I get excited about a Free, unified desktop and server OS built entirely in the open, out of open source components, fully supported for 5 years on the server.

Winter, and the Precise Pangolin, are coming

And now, we’re about to do it again. Precise beta1 is looking really solid, and I am immensely proud to have been a tiny part of that. Continue reading