Blog posts written by Richard Harding

Richard Harding
16 October 2017

Think Cloud portable! Let Applications drive the Model

Cloud and server Article

In our last intro to Modeling with Juju post we didn’t pay any attention to the hardware needed to run our workloads. We ran with Juju default values for what the hardware characteristics of the cloud instances should be. Rather than define a bunch of YAML about each machine needed to run the infrastructure, Juju picks sane defaults that ...

Richard Harding
3 October 2017

Learning to speak Juju

Cloud and server Article

One of my favorite quotes is that there are two hard problems in tech, cache invalidation and naming things. Naming things is fun and you quickly realize that in any tech community there’s a vocabulary you need to understand in order to participate. Programming languages, technical tools, and even just communities all build entire languag ...

Richard Harding
13 September 2017

Modeling infrastructure with security and flexibility in mind

Cloud and server Article

Juju allows the user to model their infrastructure in a clean and simple repeatable way. Often deployments are repeated across different clouds and regions. Sometimes it’s repeated from dev to staging to production. Regardless of the way it’s repeated, ...

Richard Harding
20 July 2017

Testing the future of Juju with snaps

Cloud and server Article

Juju 2.3 is under heavy development and one thing we all want when we’re working on the next big release of our software product is to get feedback from users. Are you solving the problems your user has? Are there bugs in the corner cases that a user c ...