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Jorge O. Castro

Jorge O. Castro

43 posts

Cloud Community Liaison

Jorge has been working on Ubuntu since 2004 and is currently helping devops organizations get up and running on Kubernetes , an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.


Jorge O. Castro
17 February 2016

Juju Office Hours for February 2016

Cloud and server Videos

Come join the Charmer Summit After Party! We’re back from FOSDEM and Config Management Camp! In this session we’ll talk about the events, topics covered, and give you a sneak peek of what’s coming up in Juju 2.0. ...


Jorge O. Castro
17 February 2016

Juju GUI 2.0.3 released

Cloud and server Videos

The latest release of the Juju GUI has just been packaged up and brings with it a number of small but important bug fixes: Fixed an issue where deploying the same charm multiple times would generate invalid charm names. Fixed an issue where it would require two clicks to click between services on the canvas. ...


Jorge O. Castro
15 February 2016

Introducing Juju Resources

Cloud and server Videos

The Juju team have been working hard on a new feature coming up in Juju 2.0 called “Juju Resources”, and we’re now at a point where we can share the goodness and call for bugs/feedback! As noted in the video linked below, the feature isn’t quite complete, so expect some rough edges, and for some ...


Jorge O. Castro
11 February 2016

The Model of a Good Time: Juju Charmer Summit 2.0 @ cfgmgmntcamp

Cloud and server Article

Over 100 Juju enthusiasts gathered this week for our second Juju Charmer Summit in beautiful Gent, Belgium as part of the Config Management Camp. This was our first time officially participating and helping to sponsor the event, and we are proud to join the existing Ansible, Chef, CFEngine/Rudder, Foreman, Puppet, and Salt tracks. Over 70 ...


Jorge O. Castro
11 February 2016

Juju GUI 2.0 Release Introduction

Cloud and server Videos

Jeff Pihach gives a run through of the new design of the latest release of the Juju GUI. We are always interested to hear what you think about the GUI and for input on what features you want to see next. We can be found on IRC on freenode.net in #juju and #juju-gui, on the ...


Jorge O. Castro
5 January 2016

Celebrating over 10 million Vagrant Ubuntu downloads

Cloud and server Article

Vagrant is a popular devops tool because it allows developers to easily manage virtual machines on their laptop. While this sounds easy, Vagrant allows people to finally develop on their machines using the same libraries as the operating system that’s in their server room. And since it uses virtual machines, everything is nice and compart ...


Jorge O. Castro
19 October 2015

Announcing the 2nd Juju Charmer Summit

Cloud and server Article

After a wonderful start in Washington DC the Juju Charmer Summit is back! This time we’ll be colocated with Config Management Camp, 1-3 February 2016, in beautiful Gent, Belgium. Join us for three full days of training, workshops, talks, and community collaboration with other automation tool communities. We’ve launch a little mini-site wi ...


Jorge O. Castro
28 September 2015

Executive Summary from the Juju Charmer Summit 2015

Cloud and server Article

Last week members of the Juju community gathered in Washington DC for the first ever Juju Charmer Summit. The goal of the summit was to help our users better understand what’s happening in the Juju community and be able to grow their skills, and for us it was a tremendous opportunity to collect real-world feedback ...


Jorge O. Castro
17 September 2015

Write Juju Charms, we’ll pick up the tab

Cloud and server Article

I am happy to announce the start of Juju Charm Developer program. It’s a simple premise, if you are interested in working on Juju charms, we will pay for your cloud time on Amazon Web Services. All we ask is that you share this work with the community. Download and install Juju Visit developer.juju.solutions and fill ...


Jorge O. Castro
24 August 2015

A midsummer night’s Juju Office Hours

Cloud and server Article

Our biweekly catchup of all things happening in the land of Juju. Here’s our summary of today’s session, first off, all the URLs we discuss during the list, followed by some handy shortcuts if you want to skip around this episode. https://github.com/juju/charmstore/blob/v5-unstable/docs/bundles.md https://jujucharms.com/docs/devel/wip-sys ...


Jorge O. Castro
11 August 2015

How Netflix tunes Ubuntu on EC2

Cloud and server Tutorials

One of the nice things about having Netflix running Ubuntu is that the community can take advantage of the lessons they learn about running services at scale. I had the pleasure of attending Brendan Gregg’s Linux Profiling at Netflix talk at SCALE13x and afterwards he gave me a list of things that Netflix did to Ubuntu ...


Jorge O. Castro
31 July 2015

Conducting Systems & Services: An Evening About Orchestration

Cloud and server Videos

Orchestration of containers is one of the hottest topics in devops. Prior to Dockercon this year we thought it would be a great idea to bring in some of the thought leaders in this area and have a discussion of the challenges that face devops today and how solving large scale problems can help drive ...