juju is devops distilled.
Juju enables you to use Charms to deploy your application architectures to EC2, OpenStack, Azure, HP your data center and even your own Ubuntu based laptop. Moving between environments is simple giving you the flexibility to switch hosts whenever you want — for free.
For more information, see the docs.
juju
is written in Go (http://golang.org), a modern, compiled, statically typed,
concurrent language. This document describes how to build juju
from source.
If you are looking for binary releases of juju
, they are available from the Juju
stable PPA, https://launchpad.net/~juju/+archive/stable
, and can be installed with:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:juju/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install juju
When working with the source of Go programs, you should define a path within
your home directory (or other workspace) which will be your GOPATH
. GOPATH
is similar to Java's CLASSPATH
or Python's ~/.local
. GOPATH
is documented
online at http://golang.org/pkg/go/build/
and inside the go
tool itself
go help gopath
Various conventions exist for naming the location of your GOPATH
, but it should
exist, and be writable by you. For example
export GOPATH=${HOME}/work
mkdir $GOPATH
will define and create $HOME/work
as your local GOPATH
. The go
tool itself
will create three subdirectories inside your GOPATH
when required; src
, pkg
and bin
, which hold the source of Go programs, compiled packages and compiled
binaries, respectively.
Setting GOPATH
correctly is critical when developing Go programs. Set and
export it as part of your login script.
Add $GOPATH/bin
to your PATH
, so you can run the go programs you install:
PATH="$PATH:$GOPATH/bin"
The easiest way to get the source for juju
is to use the go get
command.
go get -d -v github.com/juju/juju/...
This command will checkout the source of juju
and inspect it for any unmet
Go package dependencies, downloading those as well. go get
will also build and
install juju
and its dependencies. To checkout without installing, use the
-d
flag. More details on the go get
flags are available using
go help get
At this point you will have the git local repository of the juju
source at
$GOPATH/github.com/juju/juju
. The source for any dependent packages will
also be available inside $GOPATH
. You can use git pull --rebase
, or the
less convenient go get -u github.com/juju/juju/...
to update the source
from time to time.
If you want to know more about contributing to juju
, please read the
CONTRIBUTING companion to this file.
You can use make install-dependencies
or, if you prefer to install
them manually, check the Makefile target.
This will add some PPAs to ensure that you can install the required golang and mongodb-server versions for precise onwards, in addition to the other dependencies.
go install -v github.com/juju/juju/...
Will build juju and install the binary commands into $GOPATH/bin
. It is likely
if you have just completed the previous step to get the juju
source, the
install process will produce no output, as the final executables are up-to-date.
If you do see any errors, there is a good chance they are due to changes in
juju's dependencies. See the
Dependency management section of
CONTRIBUTING
for more information on getting the dependencies right.
After following the steps above you will have the juju
client installed in
GOPATH/bin/juju
. You should ensure that this version of juju
appears earlier
in your path than any packaged versions of juju
, or older Python juju
commands. You can verify this using
which juju
You should be able to bootstrap a local environment now with the following (Note: the use of sudo for bootstrap here is only required for the local provider because it uses LXC, which requires root privileges)
juju init
juju switch local
sudo juju bootstrap
The juju
client program, and the juju 'tools' are deployed in lockstep. When a
release of juju
is made, the compiled tools matching that version of juju
are extracted and uploaded to a known location. This consumes a release version
number, and implies that no tools are available for the next, development, version
of juju. Therefore, when using the development version of juju you will need to
pass an additional flag, --upload-tools
to instruct the juju
client to build
a set of tools from source and upload them to the environment as part of the
bootstrap process.
juju bootstrap -e your-environment --upload-tools {--debug}
make install-etc
Will install Bash completion for juju
cli to /etc/bash_completion.d/juju
. It does
dynamic completion for commands requiring service, unit or machine names (like e.g.
juju status , juju ssh , juju terminate-machine <machine#>, etc),
by parsing cached juju status
output for speedup. It also does command flags
completion by parsing juju help ...
output.