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Adam Stokes

Adam Stokes

8 posts

Technical Lead Solutions Engineering

Adam is currently a Technical Lead for the Solutions Engineering team at Canonical, part of Ubuntu Core Developer, and an all around opensource evangelist.

Adam Stokes
26 August 2017

conjure-up dev summary: you like LXD? we like LXD. Put your floaties on and step up to the Helm!

Cloud and server Article

LXDWe’ve taken some preliminary steps in providing the user better feedback when wanting to deploy onto the localhost provider. If conjure-up isn’t able to talk to the same API endpoints Juju can then our probability of success is next to none.We do some fancy realtime UI updates so ...

Adam Stokes
19 August 2017

conjure-up dev summary: aws native integration, vsphere <3, and ADDONS

Cloud and server Article

This cycle is aimed at bringing you closer to your cloud provider of choice, advanced configuration options, and to Just Do More with addons. ...

Adam Stokes
27 July 2017

Conjure-up dev summary highlights: screen ordering and improved deploy

Cloud and server Article

In this latest update we’ve moved all steps to be completed prior to any of those longer blocking tasks and made deployments more resilient. ...

Adam Stokes
26 June 2017

Conjure-up dev summary: Week 25

Cloud and server Article

With conjure-up 2.2.2 out the door we bring a whole host of improvements!sudo snap install conjure-up --classic Improved LocalhostWe recently switched over to using a bundled LXD and with that change came a few hiccups in deployments. We’ve been monitoring the error reports coming in and ...

Adam Stokes
21 November 2016

conjure-up Canonical Kubernetes under LXD today!

Cloud and server Article

We’ve just added the Localhost (LXD) cloud type to the list of supported cloud type on which you can deploy The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. What does this mean? Just like with our OpenStack offering you can now have Kubernetes deployed and running all on a single machine. All moving parts are confined inside their ...

Adam Stokes
9 June 2016

What’s the easiest way to start using big software? Meet Conjure-up

Cloud and server Article

Have a big software project you want to get in front of users with the least amount of barriers? Maybe it has a lot of dependencies, target runtimes, and/or micro-service type relationships. Don’t feel like writing a book’s worth of install and configuration documentation? Wish you could just tell folks to just conjure-up your project? ...

Adam Stokes
25 November 2015

Juju plugin: search charmstore

Cloud and server Article

Sometimes it is just quicker to type a few commands on the cli than opening your browser window, going to jujucharms.com and typing out a search term to see what is available to you. So I wrote a tiny plugin to speed that up a bit. Install the plugin Currently supports Trusty, Vivid, and Wily ...

Adam Stokes
17 November 2015

Extending Juju, Plugin basics in Go

Cloud and server Article

This is a quick introduction on extending Juju with plugins written in Go. What we’ll cover:Setting up your Go environmentGetting the Juju source codeWriting a basic plugin named juju-lyaplugin short for (juju-learnyouaplugin)End result will be a ...