Over the last few weeks I’ve been messing around with MAAS and JuJu and I’ve come to the conclusion that these two pieces of software are the perfect solution to achieving the ever so elusive “Hybrid Cloud Model”
I started out testing MAAS because I’m a bit of a hardware nut and thought it was an awesome idea to use your physical servers in the same way that you consume VM’s in the public cloud.
This lead me onto JuJu which gives you the ability to deploy applications without thinking about configuring the OS underneath them. JuJu has the ability to hook into MAAS, as well as public clouds like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud so this got me thinking.
I could use JuJu as my single pane of glass to manage applications and resources in my own datacentre as well as those which are hanging out in the public cloud.
So I went onto ebay, bought a couple of servers and built the devzero MAAS lab and made a video about it in the process.
In the video I do a technical deep dive and a step by step configuration of MAAS and show how to spin up JuJu controllers, get to grips with both the command line and built in web interface, build models, configure charms and tear it all back down again.
